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ANGOL POINT
Start Depth: 5 meters
Maximum Depth: 12 meters
Rating: ***
This is an excellent dive site for beginners and training
dives. The reef is covered with stony corals, leather
corals, nudibranchs, anemones, sea stars and sea cucumbers.
It is also a favourite for night dives and is a good
spot for macro photography. Good for snorkelling, too.
BALINGHAI
Start Depth: 8 meters
Maximum Depth: 40 meters
Rating: ***
Balinghai is two walls running parallel to each other.
The deep wall features sharks and tuna while the shallow
wall is pockmarked by small holes which house anthias,
lionfish, triggerfish, bannerfish, puffers and gobies.
BAT CAVE
Maximum Depth: 6 meters
Rating: ***
This dive site is a series of small caves leading to
the actual Bat Cave which is also accessible by land.
Conditions must be just right to dive here, since waves
usually pound against the rocks and swift currents can
take you offshore. Lobsters, sea snakes and of course,
the bats overhead can make a fascinating dive.
BEACH
NIGHT DIVE
Maximum Depth: 5 meters
Rating: ***
The beach is a little-known treasure trove for divers
with a sharp eye. It is a sandy area with patches of
sea grass and hard corals. Watch out for flounders,
crabs, nudibranchs, squid and pipefish.
CAMIA
Start Depth: 18 meters
Maximum Depth: 30 meters
Rating: ****
The Camia is Boracay’s house wreck. It is a 30
metre-long cargo boat that was sank as a Fish Attraction
Device in January 2001. It has since developed very
nicely as an artificial reef. The residents now include
a couple of huge red bass, some bluefin trevallies,
scorpion fish and a school of batfish.
CHANNEL
DRIFT
Start Depth: 10 meters
Maximum Depth: 35 meters
Rating: ****
Strong tidal currents flow through the strait, taking
divers on a joy ride through canyons and crevices. Coral
growth here is very impressive and occasionally white
tip sharks and trevallies are sighted.
CORAL
GARDEN
Start Depth: 5 meters
Maximum Depth: 12 meters
Rating: ***
This dive site is right off the main beach and usually
has calm and clear conditions. It is ideal for beginners
and training dives. It is a popular fish-feeding area,
so expect to see sergeant majors, butterflyfish and
batfish crowding around. A favourite snorkelling spot.
CROCODILE
ISLAND
Start Depth: 5 meters
Maximum Depth: 20 meters
Rating: *****
From a distance, this small uninhabited island looks
like the head of a crocodile. Currents can be fierce
except at slack tide, which makes for a beautiful collection
of corals. It is a gently sloping wall with several
canyons and caves containing a wide diversity of fish.
LAGUNA
DE BORACAY
Start Depth: 5 meters
Maximum Depth: 20 meters
Rating: ****
This dive site is located on the “backside”
(east side) of Boracay. It is well-suited for beginners
and professionals alike, with a great diversity of clams,
anemones, feather stars, butterflyfish, lionfish and
sea squirts. The area is quite large, and almost every
inch is covered with hard and soft corals.
LAUREL
ISLAND
Start Depth: 5 meters
Maximum Depth: 20 meters
Rating: *****
Big Laurel and Small Laurel are two separate dive sites
which are very similar and quite close to each other.
Big Laurel has a tunnel swim-through filled with soft
corals and nudibranchs. Both Laurels are sloping walls
with healthy corals and prolific fish life.
FRIDAY’S
ROCK
Start Depth: 7 meters
Maximum Depth: 18 meters
Rating: ****
A dive at Friday’s can actually cover two dive
sites: Friday’s Reef which is 7 to 12 meters,
and Friday’s Rock which is 12 to 18 meters. This
famous fish-feeding station is a large boulder which
provides photographers a chance to capture close-up
shots of emperors, triggerfish, red bass, scorpionfish
and surgeons.
PUNTA
BUNGA
Start Depth: 9 meters
Maximum Depth: 24 meters
Rating: ***
This site is the start of a series of walls which connect
to Yapak. The drop-off is filled with cubbyholes where
moray eels, lionfish, groupers and triggerfish reside.
Stingrays are usually seen on the sandy bottom at 24
meters.
TULOBHAN
REEF
Start Depth: 5 meters
Maximum Depth: 20 meters
Rating: ****
Although it is quite shallow, a slow steady current
usually allows drift diving to cover a wide area. Sea
snakes are common, while sea cucumbers, eels and feather
stars can be seen waving in the current.
VIRGIN
DROP
Start Depth: 18 meters
Maximum Depth: 35 meters
Rating: ***
This wall dive is ideal for deep dive training. Large
sea fans and crinoids provide colourful hiding spots
for bass, moray eels and nudibranchs. Rays are sometimes
seen gliding through the thermoclines during tidal changes.
YAPAK
Start Depth: 30 meters
Maximum Depth: 40 meters
Rating: *****
Yapak 1 and 2 are actually two separate walls which
begin at 30 meters and drop down to 70 meters. The most
famous of Boracay’s dive sites, close encounters
with white tip and grey reef sharks, dogtooth tuna,
groupers, napoleon wrasses and giant trevallies are
common. Surface conditions can be rough, and therefore
a negative entry is often required, followed by a spectacular
blue-water descent.
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