Dive Sites in Puerto Galera

Puerto Galeras Dive Sites

Dive Site	Depth
01. Manila Channel	05m to 18m
You begin the dive in shallow water around 5m on a beautiful reef, with hard and soft corals and hundreds of small fishes. The flood tide from the Verde Passage helps you drift into the channel.
02. Coral Garden	03m to 10m
The name coral garden is the best way to describe this beautiful dive site. Large formation of hard corals are abundant along with basket sponges and colorful soft corals. Just about every variety of small fish life can be seen and make a fantastic site for underwater photography.
03. North Point	05m to 12m
A dive site with white sandy bottom, large corals and rock formations. An interesting area with basket sponges, plate corals and sandy areas covered in long whip corals and lots of small fish.
04. Batangas Channel	05m to 15m
Drifting inside the channel over sandy bottom where in the shallow water large tree corals, fans and basket sponges are abundant. If you have a good eye you will see frog fishes...
05. The Hill	05m to 15m
It is a small and a very protected area which is made up of rocky corals, fans, sponges and many different hard and soft corals. A great site for macro photography.
06. LaLaguna Point	03m to 18m
Close to the beautiful white beach of Big LaLaguna is a very nice reef with plate and stag horn corals living in harmony with small fishes. During night dives sole fish and stargazers can be seen.
07. Small to Big LaLaguna	03m to 18m
A small aluminum speedboat wreck at 12m where sergeant majors swarm and a large black frog fishes are commonly seen. Following the rich coral reef down to 18m you end up at the beautiful LaLaguna wall.
08. Anton's Wreck	18m
A wooden hull of a cargo boat which was sunk to create an artificial reef lie down at 18m on sandy bottom. The wreck has become the home for blue spotted rays, snappers, juvenile bat fishes and a large variety of other fishes.
09. Sabang Wrecks	18m
On sandy bottom lays the wooden hull of a Vietnamese fishing boat which is covered with aquatic life. You will be swarmed by damsel fish and bigger fish like bat and surgeon fish. Close the wreck is steel hull of a 12m sail boat that was submerged by a dive shop to create a new reef. Both wrecks are great night dives.
10. Sabang Point	05m to 21m
A photographers choice and a great night dive. The reef is abundant with fish life. Sea horses, turtles, parrot fish, sweet lips, small snapper, shoals of surgeons, tuna and cuttlefish are common visitors.
11. Monkey Beach	03m to 18m
This colorful reef is covered with christmas trees, plate corals and crowded with small fish. Soft corals are also abundant at this site. Many colorful tube corals come out at night and make it a popular site for night dives.
12. Ernie's Cave	03m to 30m
A large rocky coral formations covered with tube corals, tree corals and gorgonian fans. The cave used to be habited by Ernie a large grouper. A great dive site if you have planned a multi-level dive.
13. Wreck Point	03m to 27m
At low tide you can see the wreck of a steel vessel at the surface. In more or less 12m a wall starts and drops off to a sandy bottom. Down at 27m rest a 12m long catamaran. A great multi-level dive site.
14. West Escarceo	03m to 24m
An amazing dive site with lots of fishes, hard and soft corals placed between huge rocky corals and bommies. The shallow sandy bottom drops off to 24m.
15. Hole in the Wall	07m to 18m
In about 12m is a hole which is big enough and safe for a diver to dive through. A dive site where you can spend hours to discover the fish life hard and soft corals.
16. Pink Wall	05m to 12m
A small wall is covered with pink tree soft corals and basket sponges. You may see puffer fish, octopuses and many small eels in wall cracks. Small fans, whip corals, sea squirts and nudibranches are plentiful.
17. Boulders	03m to 21m
During the descend you will discover different shapes and sizes of boulders. It looks like they have rolled from the surface building some caves and dive-through. A good site for macro photography.
18. Oddies Ding Ding	24m to 42m
A blue water descent to a sandy bottom where a wall starts in 24m and drops off to 42m. On top of the wall is a large formation of corals, sponges and sea fans. You may see shoals of big jacks and barracudas.
19. Dry Dock	24m to 30m
The Dry Dock is a quite large steel and plywood construction. The construction lays on a sandy bottom. It has become the home of a giant Barracuda.
20. Monkey Wreck	40m to 42m
A 24m long supply boat was sunk by a number of dive centers to create a wreck site. Shoals of surgeon fish and tuna are common to this area. A great site for advanced and technical dives.
21. Canyons	24m to 30m
It is a large reef which is made up of a beautiful chain of rocky coral formations visited by shoals of jacks, tunas, barracudas, humpback, mantas and eagle rays. A dive site you could visit every day and discover new things.
22. Fish Bowl	40m to 55m
After a blue water descent you reach at 40m the top of the Fish Bowl. Beside black whip and soft tree corals you can get close to some of the big fishes.
23. Horse Head Reef	35m to 50m
The reef consist of many different rock formations and one looks like a horse head. It is a great drift dive where you will see shoals of jacks, tunas, sweet lips, hammerheads and occasionally thresher sharks.
24. The Atoll	18m to 30m
A large rock formation covered with soft corals, sea fans and tube corals. You will see lion fishes, moray eels and scorpion fishes. Watching into the open water you may discover tunas and king jacks hunting for food.
25. Shark Caves	25m to 30m
In the first cave at 25m white tip reef sharks resting during daytime. Further down is a second smaller cave where spotted sweet lips and blue spotted rays can be seen.
26. The Steps	05m to 30m
Starting at 5m a series of small walls with different contours creating the steps down to a depth of 30m and makes this dive site a great multi-level dive.
27. Sinandigan Wall	10m to 30m
A vertical wall from 10m to 30m with lots of aquatic life. It is another perfect place for multi-level diving and known for the varieties of nudibranches, sea fans and corals.
28. Turtle Rock	05m to 45m
A short distance away from Sinandigan wall is a giant Rock covered with soft corals and visited by sweet lips, snapper, white tip reef sharks and turtles.
29. Sinandigan Deep Boulders	60m
Two approximately 6m high rocks on sandy bottom are covered with soft corals. It is a great spot to observe giant jacks and tunas. This dive site is recommended for technical diving only.
30. Kilima Drift	12m to 30m
Current speeds from 4 to 6 knots make this site ideal for excellent drift diving. Flying over the bottom discover some of the great dive sites together with shoals of jacks, big tuna, spanish mackerel, rainbow runners and barracudas.
31. Japanese Wreck	42m
On sandy bottom rest the wreck of a small Japanese patrol boat. Beside the sheets of steel plate laying around the wreck you will find a big 3 cylinder engine, transmission, propeller and shaft, anchor, chain and winch. In the engine block living 2 big moray eels waiting for food...
32. Verde Island Drop Off	05m to 60m
Along a spectacular vertical wall you will come across giant gorgonian fans, lots of soft tree corals and basket sponges. Looking into the blue you see groups of fusiliers, surgeons, jacks, tunas and bat fishes.
33. Verde Island Mini Canyons	05m to 27m
A series of canyons offer a very exciting dive on the ebb tide. There are many feather stars, christmas trees, parrot fishes, frog fishes, many eels, sea snakes and shoals of surgeons and tunas.
34. Black Fish Pinnacle	24m to 60m
This extraordinary dive site starts at the top of a pinnacle in 24m and then drops off into the deep. There are giant basket sponges and gorgonian fans. You will see shoals of bat fishes, jacks and if you are lucky you will see black tip and thresher sharks.
35. Chicken Feather Island Hot Springs	15m to 21m
The bottom consist of volcanic rocks where streams of hot water flowing out the cracks and small bubbles of sulfuric gas are released to the surface. There are some small caves occupied by white tip sharks.
36. Chicken Feather Island East End	12m to 27m
A dive in shallow water on a reef that is covered with hard and soft corals. Along the way down to 27m you will find many nudibranches, lion fishes and shoals of jacks and surgeons.
37. Marcus Cave	52m
The dive starts with an exiting blue water descent to the top of a wall in 40m. An additional 12m deeper is the entrance oft the big cave. The caves ceiling is covered with fantastic corals and large gorgonian fans. Occasionally reef sharks are on the sandy bottom outside the cave.
38. Sweet Lip Corner	40m to 55m
A great technical dive site starting with a deep water descent to a sandy bottom in 40m. Further down at 55m is a large opening of a tunnel you can dive through. Inside the tunnel you will see a shoal of yellow ribbon sweet lips.
39. Secret Reef	40m to 65m
The dive site starts at 40m, drops down to the sandy bottom at 65m and is covered with big gorgonians, basket sponges and black corals. You may see a giant cod, shoals of barracudas, jacks and snappers.
40. Mamoods Reef	30m to 50m
A wall from 30m down to 50m is covered with basket sponges and fan corals. Along the wall there are some small caves with some big moray eels. This area is frequented by trigger fishes, sweet lips and different surgeons.
41. Deep La Laguna Reefs	45m to 75m
There are two reefs covered with large gorgonian fans and basket sponges. The west reef bottom is at 55m. The east reef bottom is at 75m and more a technical dive site. Eagle rays and Sharks are often sited.
42. Sabang Reef	45m to 65m
A series of large rocks with incredible giant gorgonian fans and abundant fish life. You may see shoals of mackerels, snappers, and tunas. This dive site is recommended for technical diving.
43. Deep Monkey Beach	45m to 75m
A spectacular reef made out of a series of walls. Common visitors to this area are tunas, sweet lips, snapper, mackerels and bat fishes. Gorgonian fans, basket sponges and fields of whip corals covering the place.
44. Joshua's Wall	60m to 82m
At 60m you reach the top of the wall and then drops off to 76m where you can see large shoals of snappers. The sandy bottom is at 82m where you see shoals of bat fish. The water temperature is 15 degree's Celsius but very clear.
45. Talipanan Reef	15m to 80m
Roughly 500m offshore is a pinnacle starting at 15m and has a large variety of hard and soft corals, small fishes and drops of to over 80m. Different sharks are often seen during deeper dives.

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Dive Sites in Puerto Galera

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