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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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

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.

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Best Guide to Boracay Dive Sites!

Deep Wall Dives - For Experienced Divers There are four exciting dive sites off Yapak, all with deep walls that start at 30 to 35 meters. The main attraction of Yapak I is a beautiful swim through "the Chimney." Yapak II is very popular because white tip and and gray reef sharks and schools of tuna are often seen. Yapak III, with its 55 metter-wall, is an ideal site for technical diving. At Yapak IV, also called the "Gorgonia Drop," there is a large variety of coral as well as regular sightings of eagle rays.

Drift Dives - For Experienced Divers The Channel in the Tabon Strait has strong tidal currents of considerable strenght. there's also a shark cave where, if you are lucky, you will see whitetip reef sharks.

Boracay Ship Wreck - For Experienced DiversThe Camia II, once a steel hulled fishing vessel, was donated by a Manila Fishing Company and sunk in January 2000. It rests on the bottom at30 meters with its wheel house at 20 meters. Ghost pipe fish, scorpion fish and schools of bat fish are commonly seen, and the hull may be explored with training.

Boracay Night Dives - Experienced Divers The three main sites for night dives are Crocodile Island, the Wreck Camia II and the Beach Night Dive. crocodile Island by night is when you will see morrays, large crabs and lobsters, and sometimes turtles. A night dive on the Wreck is good for encounters with sting rays, micmic octopus and scorpion fish. The Beach Night Dive offers a close view of shrimps, crabs, flounders and other bottom dwellers.

Easy Dives - Diving for Beginners At Laurel Island 1, one swims through a hole in the island at 5 meters and down to 18 meters, while laurel island 2 is a wall at 10 to 25 meters. both of these sites have excellent hard and soft corals. Friday Rock is a fun dive with many fish. in shore of Fridays Rock is a nice coral garden which is a 15 minute ride away. On the nearby sandy bottom are moray eels, different species of starfich, sea cucumbers and more. Crocodile Island is another good site for an easy dive, with soft corals and large variety of reef fish.

Rainy Season Dives - For Beginners Diving doesnt stop in the rainy season (July to November), and there are many good sites including the Laurel Islands and Crocodile Island. Also Laguna de Boracay is a n easy to reach site with clams of different sizes, scorpion fish and butterfly fish. Many tropical fish maybe seen along the reef of Malabunot with slopes from 9 meters down to 20 meters.

Day Trips and Safaris - Beginners and Experienced Divers There are numerous possibilities for dive safaris lasting one day up to one week. The four walls on Panay Island range in depth from 3 meters down to 30 meters. These wall dives are ideal for both beginners and experienced divers and make a great day trip, with a barbeque lunch on the beach at Buruanga. Manigum Island, with a spectacular wall on its northern side, is a full one-day trip where visibility is excellent. Panagatan Cays, a two-day trip is a group of three small islands with deep wall sites and turtles, barracudas, schools of jacks and many sharks.