Philippines

Malapascua Island offers the world's most reliable thresher shark encounters at Monad Shoal cleaning station with year-round sunrise dives at 20 to 28 metres.

Thresher Sharks

Whale sharks visit multiple sites seasonally including Donsol (November to June), Tubbataha (March to June), and Sombrero Island near Anilao (November to May).

Whale Sharks

Anilao's muck diving sites including Secret Bay and Basura are world-famous for mimic octopus, wonderpus, and blue-ringed octopus encounters.

Mimic Octopus

Manta rays visit cleaning stations at Tubbataha Reefs, Apo Reef, and various Visayas sites from December to May during plankton season.

Manta Rays

The Philippines is one of the world's most biodiverse diving destinations, an archipelago of over 7,600 islands stretching across the western Pacific Ocean at the heart of the Coral Triangle. Home to the highest concentration of marine species on Earth, the Philippines offers an extraordinary range of underwater environments from the legendary muck diving sites of Anilao and Dauin where rare critters like mimic octopus, rhinopias, and flamboyant cuttlefish thrive, to the pristine coral walls of Tubbataha Reefs UNESCO World Heritage Site teeming with sharks, rays, and pelagic species. The country's unique geography creates diverse diving conditions, from the WWII wreck capital of Coron in Palawan with over a dozen Japanese freighters, to the world-famous thresher shark cleaning stations of Malapascua Island, and the year-round sardine run of Moalboal where millions of sardines form massive baitballs just offshore. With warm water of 26 to 30 degrees, visibility of 10 to 40 metres, and over 500 recorded dive sites, the Philippines delivers exceptional diving for every certification level from beginners to technical divers.

The Philippines offers exceptional liveaboard diving, most notably at Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site accessible only by liveaboard from March to June each year. Liveaboard vessels depart from Puerto Princesa in Palawan for 6 to 7 night trips covering both the North and South Atolls plus Jessie Beazley Reef. Apo Reef Natural Park in Mindoro Strait is also accessible by liveaboard with trips departing from Sablayan. Some operators run expedition liveaboards to the remote Tawi-Tawi atolls and southern Sulu Sea. Vessels range from comfortable converted fishing boats to purpose-built dive yachts with international dive staff. Most Tubbataha liveaboards offer 3 to 4 dives per day including night dives with excellent facilities for underwater photographers.

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Apo Reef Natural Park is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a protected marine sanctuary spanning 34...

Apo Reef Natural Park (Mindoro Strait)

Batangas and Anilao represent the undisputed muck diving capital of the Philippines and arguably the world, located just three hours south of Manila along the V...

Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)

Bohol is one of the Philippines' most complete diving destinations, offering the legendary Balicasag Island Marine Sanctuary with its turtle-filled reefs, drama...

Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)

Camiguin Island off the northern coast of Mindanao is a volcanic island paradise offering unique diving experiences shaped by its active volcanic geology, with...

Camiguin Island (Mindanao)

Coron in northern Palawan is the undisputed wreck diving capital of the Philippines, home to one of the world's finest collections of World War II Japanese ship...

Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)

Dauin and Dumaguete on the southeastern coast of Negros Oriental form one of the Philippines' most diverse diving regions, combining legendary macro muck diving...

Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental)

Davao and Samal Island in southeastern Mindanao offer an emerging diving destination with diverse underwater environments including cavern systems, walls, wreck...

Davao & Samal Island (Mindanao)

El Nido and Bacuit Bay in northern Palawan represent one of the most visually spectacular diving destinations in the Philippines, where towering limestone karst...

El Nido & Bacuit Bay (Palawan)

Southern Leyte and Sogod Bay represent one of the Philippines' most underrated diving destinations, a sheltered bay along the eastern Visayas coastline offering...

Leyte – Southern Leyte & Sogod Bay (Visayas)

Malapascua Island off the northern tip of Cebu is one of the world's most important shark diving destinations, home to the legendary Monad Shoal cleaning statio...

Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu)

Moalboal on the southwestern coast of Cebu is one of the Philippines' most iconic diving destinations, famous worldwide for its extraordinary sardine run where...

Moalboal & Pescador Island (Cebu)

Puerto Galera and Verde Island form one of the Philippines' most diverse and accessible diving regions, located on the northern tip of Mindoro Island just three...

Puerto Galera – Verde Island (Mindoro)

Sarangani Bay on the southern coast of Mindanao is an emerging diving frontier offering pristine coral reefs, strong-current drift diving with pelagic encounter...

Sarangani Bay (Mindanao)

Siquijor Island in the central Visayas is an emerging diving destination offering pristine walls, spectacular coral gardens, and excellent macro diving in a rel...

Siquijor Island (Visayas)

Subic Bay is the Philippines' premier wreck diving destination, a former United States Naval Base on the western coast of Luzon housing an extraordinary collect...

Subic Bay (Zambales, Luzon)

Tawi-Tawi and the Southern Sulu Sea represent the Philippines' ultimate frontier diving destination, a remote archipelago of coral atolls and seamounts at the s...

Tawi-Tawi & Southern Sulu Sea (Remote)

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Philippines' crown jewel of marine conservation, a remote pair of coral atolls rising from...

Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO)

Airplane Wreck

Airplane Wreck is one of Moalboal & Pescador Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering small Cessna aircraft at 18 metres now serving as an a...

Akitsushima

Akitsushima is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering large Japanese seaplane tender at 18 to 36 metres with crane and ant...

Alma Jane Wreck

Alma Jane Wreck is one of Puerto Galera – Verde Island (Mindoro)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering large cargo vessel sunk in 2003 at 20 to 30 metres with d...

Angels Cove

Angels Cove is one of Davao & Samal Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering wall with gorgonians, turtles, and eagle rays on a productive vertic...

Anilao Pier

Anilao Pier is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering macro mecca beneath pier pilings with frogfish, ghost pipefish, b...

Apo Island Marine Sanctuary

Apo Island Marine Sanctuary is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering protected marine sanctuary with pristin...

Apo Minor (Binangaan Island)

Apo Minor (Binangaan Island) is one of Apo Reef Natural Park (Mindoro Strait, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering lagoon with pristine coral, calm...

Apo Reef East Wall

Apo Reef East Wall is one of Apo Reef Natural Park (Mindoro Strait, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering immense vertical drop-off with grey reef s...

Apo Reef South Wall

Apo Reef South Wall is one of Apo Reef Natural Park (Mindoro Strait, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering gorgonian forests, napoleon wrasse, large...

Arco Point

Arco Point is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering small cavern and arch formation with glassfish, nudibranchs, an...

Aundanao Wreck

Aundanao Wreck is one of Davao & Samal Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering scuttled patrol boat at 18 to 30 metres with lionfish, frogfish,...

Balicasag Marine Sanctuary

Balicasag Marine Sanctuary is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering shallow coral reef with clownfish colonies, div...

Bantigue

Bantigue is one of Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering excellent muck diving with mimic octopus, wonderpus, blue-ring...

Barracuda Lake

Barracuda Lake is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering unique thermocline and halocline dive with limestone walls, fresh...

Basura

Basura is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sandy muck site with frogfish, mimic octopus, coconut octopus, and sea...

Beatrice Point

Beatrice Point is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering wall dive with large gorgonian sea fans, anthias clouds, and m...

Black Forest (Balicasag)

Black Forest (Balicasag) is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sloping reef with turtle heaven, schooling jacks,...

Black Forest (Camiguin)

Black Forest (Camiguin) is one of Camiguin Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering volcanic black-sand slope with nudibranchs, frogfish, and oct...

Bohol Marine Sanctuary

Bohol Marine Sanctuary is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering protected shallow coral reef with diverse fish life...

Cathedral Rock

Cathedral Rock is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering cross-shaped formation at 10 to 20 metres with batfish, sweetl...

Cathedral Wall (Balicasag)

Cathedral Wall (Balicasag) is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering deep wall with gorgonians, reef sharks, and spe...

Chapel Reef (Apo Island)

Chapel Reef (Apo Island) is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering hard coral reef with thousands of sea turt...

Chocolate Island

Chocolate Island is one of Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering macro site with mandarinfish, nudibranchs, seahorses,...

Coconut Point (Apo Island)

Coconut Point (Apo Island) is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering strong drift dive with schools of jacks,...

CYC Beach

CYC Beach is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering shallow coral site ideal for training dives and night dives with diver...

Dauin North Muck

Dauin North Muck is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering legendary macro site with flamboyant cuttlefish, r...

Dauin South Muck

Dauin South Muck is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering legendary macro diving continuation with frogfish,...

Delsan Wreck

Delsan Wreck is one of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering cargo vessel at 18 to 24 metres with batfish scho...

Dilumacad Tunnel

Dilumacad Tunnel is one of El Nido & Bacuit Bay (Palawan)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering underwater tunnel and cavern at 12 to 20 metres with barracuda,...

Divers Heaven (Balicasag)

Divers Heaven (Balicasag) is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering wall with large gorgonian sea fans, barracuda, n...

Doljo Point

Doljo Point is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering macro muck site with frogfish, seahorses, ghost pipefish, and...

Dumaguete Pier

Dumaguete Pier is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering pier diving with seahorses, frogfish, nudibranchs, a...

East Tangat Wreck

East Tangat Wreck is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering small gunboat at 3 to 22 metres suitable for both snorkelling...

El Capitan (SS San Quentin)

El Capitan (SS San Quentin) is one of Subic Bay (Zambales, Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering freighter at 12 to 25 metres with coral-encrusted supers...

Enriques Reef

Enriques Reef is one of Siquijor Island (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sloping coral reef with pipefish, frogfish, cuttlefish, and diverse macr...

Entalula Island

Entalula Island is one of El Nido & Bacuit Bay (Palawan)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering coral gardens with nudibranchs, frogfish, seahorses, and diverse...

Gato Island

Gato Island is one of Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering underwater tunnel and cave at 12 metres with whitetip shark...

Glan Padidu Reef

Glan Padidu Reef is one of Sarangani Bay (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering coral garden with giant clams, butterflyfish, angelfish, and diverse r...

Hole in the Wall

Hole in the Wall is one of Puerto Galera – Verde Island (Mindoro)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering small swim-through with glassfish, nudibranchs, and dive...

Hunters Rock

Hunters Rock is one of Apo Reef Natural Park (Mindoro Strait, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering isolated seamount attracting tuna, barracuda, ea...

Irako Maru

Irako Maru is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering 160-metre Japanese refrigerated ship at 30 to 44 metres with penetrab...

Jessie Beazley Reef

Jessie Beazley Reef is one of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering isolated seamount with schooling hammerhea...

Jigdup Reef

Jigdup Reef is one of Camiguin Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sloping reef with barracuda, whitetip reef sharks, and diverse reef fish...

Kasai Wall

Kasai Wall is one of Moalboal & Pescador Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering gorgonians, turtles, and large groupers on a productive wa...

Katipanan (Apo Island)

Katipanan (Apo Island) is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering shallow coral garden ideal for beginners wit...

Kemod Shoal

Kemod Shoal is one of Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering deeper thresher shark station with additional hammerhead si...

Koala Point

Koala Point is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sloping reef with reliable turtle encounters, ribbon eels, harleq...

Kogyo Maru

Kogyo Maru is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering freighter with cargo holds full of wire rolls at 22 to 34 metres with...

Lighthouse Islet

Lighthouse Islet is one of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering hammerhead shark sightings in early morning d...

Lighthouse (Malapascua)

Lighthouse (Malapascua) is one of Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sloping reef with ghost pipefish, pygmy seahors...

Ligid Caves

Ligid Caves is one of Davao & Samal Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering series of swim-through caverns with glassfish, moray eels, and batfi...

Limawasa Island

Limawasa Island is one of Leyte – Southern Leyte & Sogod Bay (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering pristine coral gardens in the historic Magellan lan...

LST (Landing Ship Tank)

LST (Landing Ship Tank) is one of Subic Bay (Zambales, Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering WWII landing ship at 15 to 34 metres with huge interior comp...

Mainit Point

Mainit Point is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering drift dive with blacktip reef sharks, barracuda, trevally, and e...

Maitum Caves

Maitum Caves is one of Sarangani Bay (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering limestone cavern systems with catfish, freshwater-saltwater interface, and...

Malayan Wreck

Malayan Wreck is one of Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (UNESCO, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering small trawler wreck at 12 metres with exceptiona...

Mamsa Point (Apo Island)

Mamsa Point (Apo Island) is one of Dauin & Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering wall with reef sharks, napoleon wrasse, an...

Manila Channel

Manila Channel is one of Puerto Galera – Verde Island (Mindoro)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering drift through the strait with batfish, jacks, and spectacu...

Mapating Point

Mapating Point is one of Batangas – Anilao (Southern Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering deep drop-off with possible hammerhead sharks from December to...

Mapun Atoll (Turtle Islands)

Mapun Atoll (Turtle Islands) is one of Tawi-Tawi & Southern Sulu Sea (Remote, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering untouched coral atolls with gree...

Merope Wreck

Merope Wreck is one of Apo Reef Natural Park (Mindoro Strait, liveaboard)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering small shipwreck on the reef flat with batfish, l...

Monad Shoal

Monad Shoal is one of Malapascua & Gato Island (Cebu, Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering famous thresher shark cleaning station at 20 to 28 metres w...

Monkey Beach

Monkey Beach is one of Puerto Galera – Verde Island (Mindoro)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering coral garden with green and hawksbill turtles, occasional du...

Mushroom Rock

Mushroom Rock is one of Davao & Samal Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering pinnacle with nudibranchs, pipefish, and diverse macro life on a s...

Napaling Point (Panglao)

Napaling Point (Panglao) is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering school of sardines with giant trevally hunting ov...

Napantao Marine Sanctuary

Napantao Marine Sanctuary is one of Leyte – Southern Leyte & Sogod Bay (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering magnificent wall covered in soft corals,...

Natnat Reef

Natnat Reef is one of El Nido & Bacuit Bay (Palawan)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering shallow coral reef with giant morays, clownfish colonies, and excelle...

Okikawa Maru

Okikawa Maru is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering oil tanker at 12 to 26 metres with enormous propeller, batfish scho...

Old Volcano Wall

Old Volcano Wall is one of Camiguin Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering drop-off with sea fans, turtles, and schooling jacks along the subme...

Olympia Maru

Olympia Maru is one of Coron (Palawan – Wreck Capital)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering freighter at 18 to 30 metres with open cargo holds, macro life in t...

Oryoku Maru (Hell Ship)

Oryoku Maru (Hell Ship) is one of Subic Bay (Zambales, Luzon)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering Japanese passenger freighter at 15 to 22 metres with soberin...

Padre Burgos Pier

Padre Burgos Pier is one of Leyte – Southern Leyte & Sogod Bay (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering colossal frogfish, ghost pipefish, mandarinfish a...

Paliton Wall

Paliton Wall is one of Siquijor Island (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering steep wall with gorgonians, turtles, schooling jacks, and glassfish on a...

Pamilacan Island

Pamilacan Island is one of Bohol – Balicasag & Panglao (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering whale shark and manta ray cleaning stations from February...

Panaon Island

Panaon Island is one of Leyte – Southern Leyte & Sogod Bay (Visayas)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering whale shark encounters from November to May alongside...

Paradise Beach

Paradise Beach is one of El Nido & Bacuit Bay (Palawan)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering calm bay with sea turtles, excellent night diving, and diverse mac...

Pearl Farm House Reef

Pearl Farm House Reef is one of Davao & Samal Island (Mindanao)'s most rewarding dive sites, offering sloping coral reef ideal for training and night dives with...

Scuba Diving Sites in Philippines

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