Boracay Dive Sites
This is a listing of Scuba Dive Sites around Boracay.
Diving spots are listed clockwise starting in the southwest of the island. PADI or
SSI courses & programs are offered in Boracay.
Angol Point
Location: in the southwest of Boracay
| Access:
about 15 minutes by boat | Experience: beginner, training dives, advanced diver |
Depth: 5-15 meters | Visibility: 10-30 meters | Current: low-moderate | Best months:
November-May | Characteristics: reef with sea grass, soft corals, hard corals, stony
corals, leather corals, sea cucumbers, anemones | good for night dives and
snorkeling
Coral Garden
Location: in the southwest of Boracay | Access: just a few minutes from white beach | Experience: all divers | Depth: 5-12 meters | Visibility: 30 meters | Current: low | Characteristics: reef, shoals with plenty of colorful fish (are used being fed there), soft corals, hard corals | excellent place for snorkeling
Camia Wreck
Location: in the southwest of Boracay | Access: just a few minutes from white beach | Experience: all divers | Depth: 5-12 meters | Visibility: 30 meters | Current: low | Characteristics: reef, shoals with plenty of colorful fish (are used being fed there), soft corals, hard corals | excellent place for snorkeling
Camia Wreck
Location: opposite White Beach, Station 2 | Access:
about 10 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: advanced divers | Depth:
18-29 meters | Visibility: 10-25 meters | Current: low | Characteristics: artificial
reef by a 30 meters ship wreck |
good for photography and night dives
Virgin Drop
Location: opposite White Beach, Station 2 | Access:
about 10 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: advanced divers | Depth:
18-36 meters | Current: moderate-strong | Characteristics: wall, reef dive with
soft corals, hard corals, sea fans, nudibranchs, moray eels
Friday`s Rock
Location: opposite White Beach, Station 1 | Access:
about 10 minutes by boat from white Beach | Experience: all divers | Depth: 7-18
meters | Visibility: up to 25 meters | Current: low-moderate | Best months:
November-May | Characteristics: two dive sites Fridays rock and Fridays reef with
many fish species, soft corals, hard corals, sea cucumbers | good for photography,
while fishes are being fed
Balinghai
Location: in the northwest of Boracay | Access: about
15 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: experienced divers | Depth: 8-40
meters | Visibility: 10 meters | Current: can be strong | Characteristics: two walls,
reef with a wide diversity of fish, possibility of tuna and sharks; soft corals,
leathery corals, hard corals
Punta Bunga
Punta Bunga
Location: in the northwest of Boracay Island |
Access: about 15 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: all divers | Depth:
7-24 meters | Visibility: up to 20 meters | Current: low | Characteristics: series of
walls which are connected to Yapak with sea cucumbers, sea stars, soft corals, stone
corals, moray eels, stingrays
Yapak
Yapak
Location: north, northeast of Boracay | Access: about
25 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: advanced divers and technical
divers | Depth: up to 70 meters | Visibility: 10-30 meters | Current: strong |
Characteristics: 3 dive sites - Yapak I and Yapak II, two different reef walls begin
at 30 meters and drop down to 70 meters at Yapak III, wide diversity of fish, tuna,
barracuda, snapper, jacks, sharks, and manta rays have been seen, sea turtles, sea
snakes, sponges, nudibranchs, corals
Bat Cave
Bat Cave
Location: in the north of Boracay, easterly from Puka
Beach | Access: either by land, or underwater | Experience: experienced divers |
Depth: 6 meters | Current: moderate-strong | Characteristics: series of small caves
followed by the actual bat cave with sea snakes, soft corals, hard corals, tropical
fish | good for photography (with flash)
Laguna de Boracay
Location: about 600 meters easterly of Bulabog Beach
| Access: only a few minutes from Bulabog Beach by boat | Experience: all divers |
Depth: 5-20 meters | Visibility: up to 25 meters | Current: usually low | Best
months: June - October | Characteristics: relaxing drift dive with rock formations, plenty
of soft corals and hard corals, clams, nudibranchs, feather stars, sea squirts,
tropical fish | good for underwater
photography
Tulobhan Reef
Location: about 600 meters opposite to the southern
end of Bulabog Beach | Access: either by boat or from the shore | Experience: all
divers | Depth: 5-20 meters | Visibility: up to 20 meters | Current: low-moderate |
Characteristics: reef drift dive with sea snakes, sea cucumbers, sea stars, moray
eels, nudibranchs, anemones, soft corals, hard corals
Crocodile Island
Location: in the southeast of Boracay | Access: about
20 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: all level | Depth: 5-24 meters |
Visibility: 10-30 meters | Current: moderate-strong | Best months: November-May |
Characteristics: wall, reef with a wide diversity of fish, sea snakes, sea stars, sea
cucumbers, nudibranchs, anemones, soft corals, leather corals, stony corals | good
for snorkeling with fins
Laurel Islands
Location: southeast of Boracay, in the Tabon Strait |
Access: about 25 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience: advanced divers |
Depth: 5-20 meters | Visibility: up to 30 meters | Current: strong | Characteristics:
2 dive sites (small Laurel and big Laurel) with walls, tunnel, reef, many fish
species, sponges, sea cucumbers, sea stars, sea snakes, nudibranchs, soft corals,
hard corals, black corals, leathery corals | good for photography
Channel Drift
Location: south of Boracay, between Boracay and Aklan
in the Tabon Strait | Access: about 30 minutes by boat from White Beach | Experience:
advanced divers | Depth: 10-35 meters | Visibility: 5-10 meters | Current: very
strong | Characteristics: drift dive with canyons, rock formations, shark caves,
sandy seabed, stingrays, shoals of fish, beautiful corals, sponges
Dive sites around Boracay Island on Boracay
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