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DIVE SITES AND MAP

LIGPO ISLAND: (Shore Diving adjacent to the resort)Just west of Ligpo Point. Generally calm. The east side has all the expected reef fish and invertebrates.In a west side, it is good dive site for night dives with a lots of flat worms, nudibranchs, moray eels,catfish and squid.Tuna,jacks, Manta rays settling  in at the sandy area from February to May.

Average depth:27 m(90 ft)

Maximum Dept:61m (200 ft)

DIVERS SANCTUARY REEF:(The Altar) Just infront of the property.

Average Depth::20m(65ft)

Maximum Depth:35m(115ft)

Generally calm, among the resident is the blue moray eel,grouper, crossed eyed lobster (I named Bruno) damselfish,cardianl fish, goatfish,goby, jack and trevally, moorish idol, parrotfish, pipe fish. snapper. wrasse fish,batfish,barracuda, hog fish,colorful feather stars, soft coral, frogfish,nudibranchs,mooray eels, sea cocumber,tuna, spanish mackerel,barell sponges, anemones with clown fishes lots of colourful soft coral and sponges. Manta rays nesting on the sandy area, giant turtles helping themselves with my newly planted Kappa Cottonii (seaweeds) abundance  pelagics by the cave and watch out for the thresher shark as local fishermen already killed one last year 200 meters away from the resort. I need more Ambassadors, a voice to help me save this beautiful creatures of the deep. Dont forget to visit the 'The Altar' that I dedicated to this place on my 25th wedding anniverssary. This site is my favourite dive site in this this planet. Floating kubo available for rent in the site.You can also order refreshment and foods from my pavilion restaurant and eat at the kubo.

Bahura means reef. The depth of this site ranges from 10 m to 30 m consisting of slopes, small drop-offs, overhangs and swim throughs. It is much the same as Beatrice Rock with abundant fish and fierce currents especially in the corners. Divers should be warry because down currents can happen. But when the current kicks, you can see some sharks swimming around, turtles, big mouth mackarel, milk fish, red tooth trigger, titan trigger, and lots of tropical fish! This site has to be planned well with the tides. Only for expert divers.  

Bahura Ligpo

This is a deep dive again it could be reached by shore dive or use of my boat ,kayak, floater, dinggy from my resort. The top of the reef is around 21M/70ft. It looks like a plateau underwater. Some sides have sand alleys a sighting of huhr cuttle fish and huge octupus made my dive worthwhile, other sides are composed of big rocks with a lot of fan corals jutting out while other side is just a sandy slope watch for the tiny blue ribbon eel her name is "Betty Boo". Since this site starts deep it goes down deeper. Some sightings of eagle rays, sharks, turtles, school of barracudas and frog fish are common in this site. My last sightings with the Manta Rays were on the eve of 15th Feb 2006. Night dive was perfect here. Huge cuttle fish tried to steal my fins last  time I dove here. I nearly swallowed my mouthpiece in a sheer panic. I would never get bored here and I could dive here everyday if work allows me. 

 

Batcave

The batcave is between 90 - 100 ft or 30 meters. There is a small cave that you can go through. It's home to midnight snappers as big as three feet. On top of the batcave is a cross at 60 feet where you can fish feed. A bit to the side is the grotto of the Virgin Mary so you can pray underwater. Then you will pass a small wall at 50 feet then you will already see the class room of the Dive n Trek house reef. Batcave can be a dive starting from the lobster cave and ending at the pier of dive n trek. I enjoyed my night dive here with my sisters and my buddy Rey de Castro.

 

Batok

This site got its name due to its location relative to Sombrero Island. It is behind the island and Batok in english simply means "nape." The dive starts at the shallow around 10M/33ft. Head west and you will see that it forms into a small wall. The top of the wall is around 10M/33ft and it bottoms out at around 21M/70ft. Then its all sand. This site is very good for drift diving and good for novice divers as well.

The top of Batok reminded me of the home of Nemo in the movie. Lots of boulders that you can swim around. There are a lot of anthias, fussilier, octopus and maybe if your lucky a big cuttle fish. The shallow area is very colorful and good for snorklers. May I recommend for snorklers not to wear fins to protect  the corals from unnecessary kicks and please ceased from standing on them,

 

Beatrice

"Beatrice is a divesite known for its tantalizing beauty. But have you ever wondered how this spot got its name? Apparently during the early years of Scuba Diving in Anilao, this was discovered by the early adventurers and one of their lady companion was named Beatrice, They named the site after her.

This is one of my favorite dive site in Anilao. It's actually on the north east corner of Sombrero Island. One side of the rock is slopy and then a mini wall. The other corner goes into a gradual slope or coral garden. This site can have ripping currents. When that happens you will see the orchestra of anthias dancing with the current. Top is at 7M and goes to 25M. Best to stay at around 18 to 20M.  (I was so hungry during my last dive here.  I ended up taking a nap on top  of my equipments   and dreaming all the food that my chef at Divers Sanctuary prepared for me. Sinugba that is! Followed by a dessert "Tupig/ purple rice cake wrapped in banana leaves and genty roasted in an open clay stove,  home cooked by my sister in-law Delia, straight from my hometown Sawmill,Villaverde, Nueva Vizcaya.)

 

Bebot's Rock

This site is situated to the left of Balai resort facing land. It starts shallow 7M/20ft and slopes down gradually. Most of the corals and life are in 12M/40ft. Good for novice divers and can expect some current. Bottom composition are corals and silt. So watch out for your buoyancy!

 

Cathedral

This is probably the most famous fish feeding dive site in Anilao. Favorite among dive instructors to do their graduation dive. The site is teeming damsel fish, butterfly fish and surgeon fish feeding off your hands. They have been acclimitized to divers.

In the Cathedral, we use the three bouys to descend. Upon going down abundant staghown corals can be observed. As we swim towards the cathedral, sandy patches with garden eels and blue spotted rays may be spotted. At 60 ft we see two rocks and in between is a cross that was brought down by the former president Ramos. Behind the rocks the depth can go down to 80 ft. If we look at the blue, we might be lucky and spot a school of open mouth mackarel passing by. Currents can be very strong in this site.

 

Dive n Trek

Dive n Trek site is the house reef of Dive n Trek resort. This is very good for classroom lessons. There is no current in the area and a very abundant marine and coral life. This is also the home of giant clams. The fishes are already accustomed to divers. This site is also very good for snorkellers again snorklers must not wear fins to protect the decreasing live corals in the area. A school of jacks at ten feet is almost a guarantee. Cuttle fish and squids are also common on the area.  My kids so inlove with the clams. They refused to eat shell fish at any restaurant ever since  meeting these vibrant creatures of the sea.

 

Kirby's Rock

Kirby's stick out of the water. On its shoreward side, it drops to 5 m from where the reef slopes upwards to the shore. this side have good coral cover and fish life, including soft and leathery corals. On the seaward side, the rock drips as a wall to 20 m and then shelves slowly off on sand with coral patches to 33 m. This wall is rich with soft corals, colourful crinoids, good size barrel sponges, white finger sponges, hydroids, sea stars, alabaster sea cucumbers, medium sized gorgonian sea fans, segmented worms and the like. Look closely and you may count the numerous eels inhabiting the rock. I dove this site twenty times when I was young.

 

Koala

A good site for novice divers with a gradual slope from 9 m to 24 m. Soft corals, stony corals, boulders and small reef fish can be found here. White tip reef sharks used to be seen in this area although it has been long gone. However, some of them have been spotted again. I also saw some black frog fish at arount 19M.

 

Larry's Garden

In some areas in Anilao, they call this site "New Bahura", but Larry's Garden was named after a divemaster from Balai resort. He mapped this site and they named it after him.

This site I believe is situated Northeast of Sombrero Island. The garden is composed of several rocks. Divers normally are only able to go around the 3 rocks because the top of one rock is at 21M/70ft. The rest just goes deeper and deeper. Currents can also be very strong in this site. Most often than not, divers use a line descent to go down. Usually after the 6th rock, if you peek and move slowly, you will see some white tip reef sharks resting on the sandy area. If you plan to go deeper, there are some more ridges, but I strongly suggest to take proper training before your venture out at that depth.

 

Mainit Point

Mainit is more exposed than others in the area. Currents can become very strong and afternoon winds can make the surface choppy and spoil visibility. This site, however offers plentiful and varied marine life due to the strong currents. Fish include Moorish idols, Porcupine Puffer fish, snappers, Powder-blue Surgeonfish, jacks, scorpionfish, wrasse and fusiliers as well as all the small reef fish. A school of chevron barracudas and maybe a black tip shark can be found swimming at aroud 20 M or shallower. Sleeping white tip reef sharks can also be found at around 15M underneath a rock. Not adviseable for novice divers.

 

Rockport Wreck

Rockport Wreck is located in front of the Rockport Resort. It's a fishing vessel about 40ft long. It is accesible from the Rockport Resort. Basically, you start to descend on the last bamboo. Take your bearing cause you can get disoriented because of a bad visibility due to silt. The last bamboo right behind you, the resort is 150 degrees. Descend to 90 ft then head towards 120 degrees. The distance of the bamboo to the wreck is about 15 ft away. The bow of the wreck is at 70 ft and the stern at around 110ft. Following the bow of the ship towards the shallow will lead you to the house reef in front of the resort. The wreck is home to a huge grouper, huge stonefish and huge lionfish. School of jacks were there on the 10th of February 2006. What a great dive that was. My divers refused to end their dive that day. Pity visibity was poor but the jacks made my whole day worthwhile.

 

Sepok Wall

Normally an easy and very pretty dive, with good coral gardens around 5 m and a wall dropping to 27 m. The shallow water teems with a profusion of small reef fish, while the wall has

 

 THE CATHEDRAL:

Average depth:19m (62 ft)

Maximum depth: 30m( 100) plus

This is a marine  sanctuary and probably the best known Philippine dive site.  the site itself resembles a roofless cavern consisting of two sea monts, between which is a small cross planted at 50 ft by the Former President Fidel Ramos, in 1983  blessed by the Pope John Paul 11. Lots of colourful spongesand nudibranchs,hydroids, sea squirts, blue linckia sea stars, sea cucumbers, small barrel sponges, anemones with clown fish

 

 

Agahota

This site was discovered by several dive pros and they combined the first letters of their names and thus agahota came about. Its across the coast of Batangas, situated along Maricaban. It's a slopy dive site with some boulders along the way. There can be some current. Novice divers can dive here. You can expect to see a lot a red tooth trigger fish. Angry trigger fish scared the daylight of me when I first encountered an angry one at this site five years ago.  

 

Arthur's Rock

This site starts out as a gradual slope from around 5M. Then you eventually go down to around 18-20M. Then you will see a small wall with some boulders and a small cave or more like a crack. Once in this area, the current can sometimes be really weird. Things to see in this area are sweetlips, emperor fish, surgeons and of course lots of clown fish. This site can be done by beginners.

 

Bahura

Bahura means reef. The depth of this site ranges from 10 m to 30 m consisting of slopes, small drop-offs, overhangs and swim throughs. It is much the same as Beatrice Rock with abundant fish and fierce currents especially in the corners. Divers should be warry because down currents can happen. But when the current kicks, you can see some sharks swimming around, turtles, big mouth mackarel, milk fish, red tooth trigger, titan trigger, and lots of tropical fish! This site has to be planned well with the tides. Only for expert divers.

 

Bahura Ligpo

This is a deep dive. The top of the reef is around 21M/70ft. It looks like a plateau underwater. Some sides have sand alleys, other sides are composed of big rocks with a lot of fan corals jutting out while other side is just a sandy slope. Since this site starts deep it goes down deeper. My current three dives on February 14, 2006 was the best sightings of eagle and manta rays, sharks, turtles, school of barracudas and frog fish made my day. Look out for 8 groupers they normally settle by the black coral. I think they are all female. They love my sparkling ponytail...... Please God, don't let all the fishermen catch them...They're too old and tough to eat and besides I think they were my babies in my past life....

 

Batcave

The batcave is between 90 - 100 ft or 30 meters. There is a small cave that you can go through. It's home to midnight snappers as big as three feet. On top of the batcave is a cross at 60 feet where you can fish feed. A bit to the side is the grotto of the Virgin Mary so you can pray underwater. Then you will pass a small wall at 50 feet then you will already see the class room of the Dive n Trek house reef. Batcave can be a dive starting from the lobster cave and ending at the pier of dive n trek.

 

Batok

This site got its name due to its location relative to Sombrero Island. It is behind the island and Batok in english simply means "nape." The dive starts at the shallow around 10M/33ft. Head west and you will see that it forms into a small wall. The top of the wall is around 10M/33ft and it bottoms out at around 21M/70ft. Then its all sand. This site is very good for drift diving and good for novice divers as well.

The top of Batok reminded me of the home of Nemo in the movie. Lots of boulders that you can swim around. There are a lot of anthias, fussilier, octopus and maybe if your lucky a big cuttle fish. The shallow area is very colorful and good for snorklers.  

Beatrice

"Beatrice is a divesite known for its tantalizing beauty. But have you ever wondered how this spot got its name? Apparently during the early years of Scuba Diving in Anilao, this was discovered by the early adventurers and one of their lady companion was named Beatrice, They named the site after her.

This is one of my favorite dive site in Anilao. It's actually on the north east corner of Sombrero Island. One side of the rock is slopy and then a mini wall. The other corner goes into a gradual slope or coral garden. This site can have ripping currents. When that happens you will see the orchestra of anthias dancing with the current. Top is at 7M and goes to 25M. Best to stay at around 18 to 20M. I dont want to leave when I first dove here I brought 2 pony bottle with me just incase. My instructor gave me a lot of sticks though. I was a student then. I had challenged their utmost  patience and Gosh! Instructors have a patience of an angel.... I give all my hats to all instructors out there! more power Guys! 

Bebot's Rock

This site is situated to the left of Balai resort facing land. It starts shallow 7M/20ft and slopes down gradually. Most of the corals and life are in 12M/40ft. Good for novice divers and can expect some current. Bottom composition are corals and silt. So watch out for your buoyancy! I would not allow my three newly certified sisters in this dive site yet, unless they will improve their buoyancy!

 

Cathedral

This is probably the most famous fish feeding dive site in Anilao. Favorite among dive instructors to do their graduation dive. The site is teeming damsel fish, butterfly fish and surgeon fish feeding off your hands. They have been acclimitized to divers.

In the Cathedral, we use the three bouys to descend. Upon going down abundant staghown corals can be observed. As we swim towards the cathedral, sandy patches with garden eels and blue spotted rays may be spotted. At 60 ft we see two rocks and in between is a cross that was brought down by the former president Ramos. Behind the rocks the depth can go down to 80 ft. If we look at the blue, we might be lucky and spot a school of open mouth mackarel passing by. Currents can be very strong in this site. This is my memorable divesite, I had my second dive here years ago, after passing my Open Water exam in Phi Phi Island Thailand. we have the best site in the Philippines though call me "biased" I dont care. 

Dari-laut

"Dari-Laut in Malay translates "From the Sea" and was a 4-storey diving hotel barge. It had complete facilities with 2 speedboats that could be winched up, and seaplanes for transport. Originally operated by a private club somewhere near Phuket, Thailand, it's license was revoked after being suspected of being used as an "front" for drug smuggling. It was then sold and towed to the Philippines, which was then operated by Filipino and Singaporean partners. "Struck by lightning" was the insurable reason for its demise later on. Now it lies by Caban Isl. with its roof, winches, and anchor found at 150 ft. During the early years when the Dari Laut wreck was still intact, a foreign diver lost his life when penetrating a room. Recovery divers found him with his head stuck in a porthole, apparently trying to get out in a state of panic. Rumors say that sometimes you could hear subtle screams when diving the wreck! Either that, or you're definitely narc-ed!" (by BM) This is located in between Maricaban and Caban Island. I enjoyed my under water cle.an up here with Mr and Mrs Thomas Morato and scubasurera's from Divers Network back in 2004. We drifted  to Bethlehem and collected tons of rubbish there.I would love to go back and clean up that area again in the near future.

 

Dive n Trek

Dive n Trek site is the house reef of Dive n Trek resort. This is very good for classroom lessons. There is no current in the area and a very abundant marine and coral life. This is also the home of giant clams. The fishes are already accustomed to divers. This site is also very good for snorkellers. A school of jacks at ten feet is almost a guarantee. Cuttle fish and squids are also common on the area.

 

Kirby's Rock

Kirby's stick out of the water. On its shoreward side, it drops to 5 m from where the reef slopes upwards to the shore. this side have good coral cover and fish life, including soft and leathery corals. On the seaward side, the rock drips as a wall to 20 m and then shelves slowly off on sand with coral patches to 33 m. This wall is rich with soft corals, colourful crinoids, good size barrel sponges, white finger sponges, hydroids, sea stars, alabaster sea cucumbers, medium sized gorgonian sea fans, segmented worms and the like. Look closely and you may count the numerous eels inhabiting the rock.

 

Koala

A good site for novice divers with a gradual slope from 9 m to 24 m. Soft corals, stony corals, boulders and small reef fish can be found here. White tip reef sharks used to be seen in this area although it has been long gone. However, some of them have been spotted again. I also saw some black frog fish at arount 18M.

 

Larry's Garden

In some areas in Anilao, they call this site "New Bahura", but Larry's Garden was named after a divemaster from Balai resort. He mapped this site and they named it after him.

This site I believe is situated Northeast of Sombrero Island. The garden is composed of several rocks. Divers normally are only able to go around the 3 rocks because the top of one rock is at 21M/70ft. The rest just goes deeper and deeper. Currents can also be very strong in this site. Most often than not, divers use a line descent to go down. Usually after the 6th rock, if you peek and move slowly, you will see some white tip reef sharks resting on the sandy area. If you plan to go deeper, there are some more ridges, but I strongly suggest to take proper training before your venture out at that depth.  

Mainit Point

Mainit is more exposed than others in the area. Currents can become very strong and afternoon winds can make the surface choppy and spoil visibility. This site, however offers plentiful and varied marine life due to the strong currents. Fish include Moorish idols, Porcupine Puffer fish, snappers, Powder-blue Surgeonfish, jacks, scorpionfish, wrasse and fusiliers as well as all the small reef fish. A school of chevron barracudas and maybe a black tip shark can be found swimming at aroud 20 M or shallower. Sleeping white tip reef sharks can also be found at around 15M underneath a rock. Not adviseable for novice divers.

 

Rockport Wreck

Rockport Wreck is located in front of the Rockport Resort. It's a fishing vessel about 40ft long. It is accesible from the Rockport Resort. Basically, you start to descend on the last bamboo. Take your bearing cause you can get disoriented because of a bad visibility due to silt. The last bamboo right behind you, the resort is 150 degrees. Descend to 90 ft then head towards 120 degrees. The distance of the bamboo to the wreck is about 15 ft away. The bow of the wreck is at 70 ft and the stern at around 110ft. Following the bow of the ship towards the shallow will lead you to the house reef in front of the resort. The wreck is home to a huge grouper, huge stonefish and huge lionfish.

 

Sepok Wall

Normally an easy and very pretty dive, with good coral gardens around 5 m and a wall dropping to 27 m. The shallow water teems with a profusion of small reef fish, while the wall has bigger reef fish, Barrel Sponges, gorgonian sea fans, a multitude of different species of nudibranchs, sea cucumbers and pelagic visitors. Usually visibility is great in this area.

 

 

Divers Sanctuary ca also take you to Divesite in Puerto Galera, Verde island, Nasugbu and among other neigbouring island as well as to the South. Malapascua,Balicasag, Camiguin, Cagayan de Oro,Cebu, Leyte, Apo Island, Siargao, Donsol, Dumaguete, Bohol, Batanes, Ilocos Region and to all of our network of resorts  in the country.  Have a safe Diving!

 

 

 

Neighbouring Islands Overnight trips Needed

 

Verde Island

 

Puerto Galera

 

Nasugbu

 

 

Dive site in Nasugbu

 

 

 

Twin Islands

Pink Wall, Starting from a rocky bottom with a small cave at 20’ the bottom leads
down a wall covered with masses of soft pink coral, abundant with fish from large
Filefishes, Moorish Idols, Moray Eels, Crayfish, Banded Coral Shrimps and many
others, the bright pinks, reds and yellows make this an ideal night dive, depth from 20’- 90’.

 

Coral Garden, A great variety of corals scattered over a sandy bottom leading to two walls, sting rays cover the whole area and on each dive it is not uncommon to find at least three or more. This diverse divesite is one of the most popular here and the diver soon discovers with its selection of corals how aptly named it is. Lion fish and Batfish are common in this area. Depth from 30 - 50’

 

Twin East, Covered with whip corals the bottom soon drops down over a wall to 70’, with many small holes and crevasses this is an ideal divesite to take a flashlight on, sometimes sleeping nocturnal black and white catsharks are found under ledges. The wall drops down further before joining up with coral garden.

 

South East Reef, A newly discovered area covered in coral and fish, with a lot more exploration this could turn out to be an exceptional divesite. Depth 30 - 50’.

 

Awash Reef Awash South, An incredible amount of soft and hard corals with huge fan corals and coral heads all over the area. Plenty of fish of all sizes adorn the area. This area can
keep the avid diver occupied for hours exploring all the coral heads and small reefs that are scattered around the edge of the area.

 

Awash North, Hard corals cover this area down to 50’ where as you turn left to a wall at 60’ leading to a canyon wide enough for divers to swim through, Morays are seen swimming and the rare Frogfish is sometimes seen.

 

Fuego Point

Fuego Point, A lagoon shaped like a horseshoe with the most interesting and diverse collection of soft corals and sponges adorning the bottom down to 50’. South side an interesting deep dive following the corals down to 110’ over the sand, along the wall large angelfish are often seen along with large groupers and remoras. North side is fast gaining popularity amongst local divers as a site to explore, walls and canyons are host to an ever changing underwater scenery, a large cavern with sleeping sharks is often found.

 

Lo-oc Bay - Medio Island - Hamilo Cove from
Maya-Maya

A favourite divesite, south side has many valleys from 25 - 70’ covered with
a huge selection of soft and hard corals, fish are plentiful here both big and small, an excellent dive at any depth, Purple Flying Gurnards have been seen here also the rare Eagle Ray, north side is covered with rocks and boulders down to 80’, an excellent drift dive with large Parrot fish and Emperor Angelfish seen at the deepest depths, this is a dive you never want to end, ideal for multilevel diving.

 

Crayfish Cave a large slit cave which opens up to a chimney, the cave provides shelter to a multitude of fish and crayfish, occasionally sleeping sharks and Manta rays have been seen here, penetration of the cave is not possible but access from both sides is possible.

 

Hamilo Cove Wreck, A Japanese freighter was sunk here during the liberation of the Philippines by US forces in 1945, a silty low visibility dive 5-30’ at a depth of between 25-40’. Many schools of large Batfish live here along with Stonefish and large Lion Fish.

 

The Pinnacles and Cutad Island, further north these divesites are still being explored with encouraging results, good diving from 50’ down to 110’, many different fish seen here in the underwater valleys that cover the area.

 

Fortune Island The Blue Holes are often described as the most interesting piece of underwater architecture ever seen, three large holes in the coral leading into an open topped cavern, whitetip reef sharks are often seen by the first diver down only to hide as the others follow, crystal clear water with visibility reaching 300’ on a good day.

 

The Wreck, located opposite the beach in 65’ of water the stern and keel of a steel Dutch freighter are found, you will soon be surrounded by schools of clownfish and damsels , nearby is a Volkswagen mini-bus inhabited by very large Lionfish.

 

Fortune NW, located between the blue holes and the wreck is some very spectacular coral formations with valleys dropping away to over 120’, large fan corals and sponges cover the area, some large schools of Jacks and Cuttlefish are frequently
seen.

 

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