66 Dive Sites
Where We Dive
Small-group trips across Panglao's marine-sanctuary reefs, plus day trips to Cabilao and Anda for the sites worth the extra ride.
Explore the Interactive Dive Map →Small-group trips across Panglao's marine-sanctuary reefs, plus day trips to Cabilao and Anda for the sites worth the extra ride.
Explore the Interactive Dive Map →Balicasag's namesake wall — barracuda tornadoes, jack schools, and stands of black coral.
A beginner-friendly wall that opens into blue water — turtles, batfish, and the occasional Napoleon wrasse.
A quieter Balicasag wall on the south side, known for resident frogfish and easy turtle sightings.
Also known as Rico's Wall or Turtle Point — a coral plateau on the southwest side with the island's most reliable turtle sightings.
Balicasag's south wall, often dived as one continuous drift from Turtle Point — vibrant coral and steady fish schools.
A shallow coral garden on Balicasag's northeast side, named for its vividly colored coral — with a wall dropping deeper behind it.
A soft-coral slope on Pamilacan's exposed southeast tip, with strong currents, turtles, and nudibranchs.
A gentle coral slope in front of Pamilacan's 200-year-old Spanish watchtower, on the island's northeast side.
A steep coral slope by a protected no-diving zone — mandarinfish and cuttlefish for the macro photographer.
A shifting, silver curtain of sardines along the drop-off, over a coral garden built for photographers.
A steep coral wall with a fun swim-through arch — sometimes called "the hole in the wall."
A steep drop-off thick with gorgonian fans and black coral, patrolled by tuna, barracuda, and eagle rays.
A quieter wall dive on Panglao's south coast — seahorses, frogfish, and the occasional turtle.
A soft-coral wall off tiny Puntod Island, a short hop from Alona Beach, with schooling yellow snapper in the deep.
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Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
A day-trip legend: schooling hammerheads at dawn on the north face, pygmy seahorses tucked into the wall.
A sandy slope of coral and seagrass at the north end of Cabilao's west coast, good macro hunting included.
A sandy shelf of coral gardens and soft-coral-covered boulders near Cabilao's north tip, with regular green turtle sightings.
Cabilao's house reef wall, running roughly 100m parallel to shore and thick with giant gorgonians.
A shallow muck dive under Cabilao's old Looc pier, thick with frogfish, seahorses, and pipefish hiding in the rubble.
A sloping reef built around a large sunken tree, a magnet for ghost pipefish, frogfish, and crustaceans.
The house reef of Cabilao Sunset Dive & Beach Resort — a sandy plateau easing into a coral wall down to 50m.
A steep coral slope with small caves and overhangs along Cabilao's west coast.
A sheltered mix of wall and slope near Cabilao's northeast tip, with vibrant coral and the occasional cuttlefish or turtle.
Muck and rubble diving near Cabilao's old Talisay pier on the island's east side — a magnet for camouflage specialists.
A steep drop-off on Cabilao's east side, with overhangs, sponges, and a chance of reef sharks and barracuda.
A gradual, well-lit coral slope on Cabilao's east side, in the barangay of Cambaquiz.
A gently sloping reef of sand and coral bommies on Cabilao's east side, named for the bamboo debris scattered across it.
A calm coral garden of hard and soft corals on a gentle slope, on Cabilao's east side.
A current-swept plateau of sandy coral plains off Cabilao's north tip, good for pygmy seahorses and ghost pipefish.
Cabilao's southern anchor site — a shallow ledge dropping into a wall with caves and standout gorgonians.
A flat sandy expanse on Anda's quiet east coast, thick with panda clownfish, porcelain crabs, and frogfish.
A vibrant reef top over a rocky wall — a macro-hunter's site for scorpionfish, stonefish, and nudibranchs.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Logged from PADI's site directory — full write-up pending a visit from our team.
Shallow, coral-dense diving atop one of only a handful of double barrier reefs on Earth.
A current-driven channel through Danajon Bank where pelagics — including sharks and yellowfin tuna — pass through.
Technical cave diving into twin caverns on Danajon Bank's vertical wall — for certified technical divers only.