Scuba Diving

Dive sites

Okikawa, our largest and nicest wreck, is a World War 2 Japanese oil tanker 160 meters long. It is suitable for Open Water and even Junior divers, starting at 9 meters and going to only 12 to 14 meters for its decks. Deeper diving to 25 meters is also available. The wreck has the most fish and coral life, like an aquarium. It sometimes has strong current.

Akitsushima is near Okikawa, both near Busuanga Bay. It’s a deep dive, to about 28 meters, so the dives here are only 30 to 35 minutes instead of 50 minutes to an hour. The ship was one of only two seaplane tenders in the Japanese navy, and its diesel engines are still intact. The best dive day in the entire Coron area is to dive “Aki-Oki,” Akitsushima and Okikawa.

In the bay to the west of Sangat Island, between Busuanga Bay and Coron town, are most of the sunken Japanese wrecks. These include:

Morazan, to 22 meters to go through the propeller shaft into the boiler rooms. There’s a lot to see inside this British ship which was stolen by the Japanese, and the superstructure makes a kind of lattice for sea life.

Kogyo, a deep dive to 30 meters to go inside the cargo holds where there’s a tractor, bags of cement, bales of fencing wire, etc. As with all the other wrecks, there are a lot of fish and corals.

Olympia, starting at 18 meters and going down to around 27 meters for a dive through the holds, has bags of rice still decomposing 80 years later. Oil drums, also, and a big school of jacks, usually, at the superstructure.

Irako is a deep dive and some of it collapsing, dangerous, so we don’t normally dive there.

Lusang Gunboat is very shallow, starting at the surface and going to 10 meters. We snorkel it on our Pass Island route, and it can also be a dive, though it’s a small wreck so we also go along the reef.

East Tangat Gunboat is on the east side of Sangat Island, a shallow wreck dive and reef dive less than 20 meters.

Reef dives

Our house reef is awesome for night dives, not to be missed. As mentioned above, we have lots of crabs, shrimp, seahorses, cuttlefish, and often see frogfish, turtles, sometimes octopi, etc. During the day we have also seen dugongs, though they are more rare.

Mid-channel reef, only a mile out from us, is a large shallow seamount with so many beautiful sand and coral grottoes and lots of blue coral. Not as many fish as on the wrecks, but still beautiful.

Titans, only a couple hundred meters from us, has a lot of towers of hard coral and we’ve seen rays here. Coral in excellent shape.

Dynamite Point, only about a mile from us, is great for soft corals and is often a drift dive with current.

Malcapuya, Banana, and Ditaytayan all have good reef dives that can be combined with island hopping. Ditaytayan and Banana are great for snorkeling, also, with large areas of shallow reef.

Cathedral is an amazing cave dive into a huge cave at the end of Calis Point, the southern end of Coron Island, but is accessible only on unusually calm days.

The north shore of Coron Island has several dives, including Barracuda Lake for a geothermal dive in which the water gets hotter, to 38 degrees celsius, as you go deeper. There are also two islands out front which have good reefs for diving.

Black Island has very clear water and large schools of thousands of fish since it is the farthest out of the islands, and it has a nice shipwreck, in the mid 20’s for depth. It’s between the size of the gunboats and the larger wrecks and has a very intact electrical room.

Pass Island has a nice reef dive, shallow, to combine with island hopping.

We are exploring other new reefs all the time and are flexible in our trips. We promise you a great and memorable dive experience!

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