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If you have dived in Philippines before, please share your experiences: Dive spots you would recommend, which Dive Center you used, Fishes & Diving, Visibility, Currents, etc. Please post your comments in the section below, by doing so you will help fellow divers to plan their next trip 
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Dive in Donsol with the Whale Sharks.
Discover the beautiful area of Anilao Batangas.
Or experience some of the best wreck diving in Coron.
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Diving Safety
If you are planning an upcoming dive trip or travelling to Philippines, it is a really good idea to invest in travel insurance, because you never know what could happen and when you might need it (because accidents do happen!). I recommend this travel insurance as they offer worldwide coverage as they offer worldwide coverage and cover scuba diving up to 50 metres deep, as well as snorkelling and many more water activities.Where to stay?
I usually use this website to book in advance my hotels in Philippines as they usually have the lowest rates I find. I like it because it's free to cancel and change the dates.
Travel Guide
Now that you know all about the underwater world, you might want to start planning your scuba holiday! Check out our Philippines Travel Review for information about how to get there, activities and excursions, where to stay, and more.
Diving Reviews for this region
Donsol
The best place in the World to swim and dive with Whale Sharks! Also a fantastic spot for spotting Manta Rays.
Puerto Galera
Great spot for Macro Underwater Photography, to take a diving course and for amazing Drift Diving.
Anilao, Batangas
The best place in the Philippines for Macro Underwater Photography! A must dive for muck diving and macro photographers. Thriving biodiversity and superb coral.
Boracay Island
Great place to learn Scuba Diving or to take courses. Some interesting and challenging dive sites and good macro photography opportunities.
Bohol Island
Some of the best scuba diving in the Philippines! Great wall dives, Coral, Macro Pictures opportunities and Reef Sharks.
Coron, Palawan
One of the Best places in the World for Wreck Diving!!! Also very interesting lake diving all within a superb tropical scenery setting... ahh bliss!
Malapascua Island
The best place on Earth to see the very rare Thresher Shark! Good chances also to spot Manta Rays and world class macro diving. Very Beautiful pristine Island.
I’ll be doing a trip to an area called Dumaguete and will be diving the Dauin and Apo Island region.Have anybody dive there? Staying with Liquid Dumaguete.Will appreciate if you can tell me more!
Sorry I don’t know so much about Dumaguete. Please give us your feedbacls once you are back!
Anilao Batangas – Never tire (after more than a dozen times) of going down on Twin Rocks from the walk-in at Planet Dive (day or night). Always see schools of jacks and baracuda and every kind of reef fish imaginable. But due to the diversity I meet some new creature each time I dive this spot. Last dive was a close encounter with a very large turtle grazing on coral. There are also outstanding reefs on the back side of Sombrero Island about 15-20 minute by boat from Planet Dive. There a dozens of more dive sites in Anilao but never enough time to get to all of them. Next time!
i am a divemaster on mactan island……..i usually dive two times a day……….it is usually clear……..so when people come to airport cebu………i can pick them up and show them a good time
I read a article about Mactan, cebu as follows:
Many of the resourts offer shore diving on house reefs, Bas Diot, off western Cebu, is a star-step drop-off that is home to clownfish, ….
Do you suggest any resorts or hotels in that area? Thanks, – Nancy from Florida
Dumagete/ Apo island has good diving; Anilao has the best dive sites. Boracay MAY have some good dive sites but they are not as good as Anilao and Sabang. Mantangale and Cumigan island has good diving; the dive sites there are better than Alona and nearby islands. Southern most dive spots at Cebu island has only a few dives sites; whereas, Pangsama beach/ Moal Boal has good diving up to 14 dives sites. South Leyte has good diving; noted for Whale sharks but I did not see any.
Anilao and Sabang bay are the best for diving.
Boracay (May 2012) dive sites are over-rated.
Moal Boal/ Pangsama beach is ok. Cumigan island/ North Mindanaro has good diving. All the above were better than Tubbataha (May, 2010) islands which had bad viz. and dead, brown reefs. Alona Beach and nearby island are ok; comparable to southern most Cebu island.
Yep! I’ve been diving in Puerto Galera. Seriously COOL. I learned to dive here.., dive my DSD in the Manila Channel.. and now I’m off to Thailand where I’ll be doing more.
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Have you tried diving with whale sharks in Oslob? If not, you must try it and experience swimming with numerous gentle giants.
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Hope to come to the Philippines in July/August but from reading it seems that its the wrong time of the year. Is there anywhere that you can recommend at this time.
Many great dives from Planet Dive in Anilao. Keep going back for more. Twin Rocks is the best shore dive I have found. Always great seaslife and corals only a short dive from the resort.
I recently did a day’s diving with Coral Bay Resort (off Busuanga Island in Coron). Great WWII Japanese wrecks with good oportunities for penetration. Vis wasn’t great – 5 to 8 m – but for these dives it didn’t matter. The dive gear was good, crew even better. I wish we had been staying longer so we could do more.
I highly recommend Camiguin Island in Mindanao. Definitely one of the best dive spots in my country. and one of the cheapest too!
If you’re down south in Mindanao/ Davao region try Talikud Island and Samal island. I did my open water there and always go back, great coral gardens, walls and some very good macro. Try Caribou Divers in Davao….about 850 pesos for a day trip with 2 dives, BYO lunch on beautiful palm fringed white sand beach.