Boracay Dive Sites
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Angol Point
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
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
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.
Camia
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Tulobhon Reef
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
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
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.
