White Beach Boracay • Boracay Island • Philippines

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: 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

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

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

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

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