philippines

Hi everyone, My partner and I are interested in doing a liveaboard trip to Tubbataha in May (admittedly, this is last minute by liveaboard standards). This would be our first liveaboard experience but we are AOW and experienced divers. First off, I would love general advice on what to look for...

I put together a short clip of five big animal encounters I was able to film with my Gopro Hero 4 Silver.

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Hi everyone, first post here. Appealing to the great cumulative knowledge of this forum for any dive sites that feature WW2 airplane wreck(s) within AOW limits? I'm traveling for the first time to the Philippines in June arriving in Manila and leaving from Cebu two weeks later. Been...

I am now again offering underwater photography courses, in Dauin, Negros Island, Philippines. Dauin is a major muck diving heaven, and you will get amazing small animals in front of your lens. My courses run out of Salaya Beach Houses, a top end resort with great photography infrastructure...

Here is an infographic for some of the top dive locations in the Philippines. What do you think is the best places to dive in the country? Here is the actual list, and best guide I can find online, for scuba diving Philippines. What do you think? Whats missing on the list? CLICK HERE for the...

Hi all, Planning my next solo getaway trip to Cebu in late Feb [5 nights], heard great things about the sardines run so I may travel south to Moalboal for some diving, but have nothing solid planned except my round-trip ticket from Hong Kong to Cebu. I am a PADI AOW with 20 dives logged...

Cove Paradise Beach and Dive Resort located in the town of Siaton, Negros Oriental. Approximately 45 km south of Dumaguete. Along with beautiful scenic landscapes are nice concrete roads on the way to our resort. We are about 7 km down off from Negros South Highway before Tambobo Bay. We offer...

Hey everyone! I'm going to be visiting friends and family at the end of the month and I really want to check out Anilao's dive spots while I'm there. My issue is that I'm going to be the only one diving so I don't want to spoil everyone's fun by having them deal with the rocky beaches. Anyone...

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From October to May each year Savedra Dive Center Moalboal, and Easy Diving resort Sipalay partner to offer 6 day 5 night dive safaris. Destinations include Moalboal, Liloan, Sumilon Island, Balicasag Island, Alona Beach, Panglao, Siquijor Island, Duain and Sipalay, typically diving four times...

Looking for DM’s and Instructors in the Philippines We are hiring DM’s and Instructors for our 2 dive shops in Negros in the Philippines (Dauin and Sipalay). Full time positions. Divemasters can be from any agency bust must be current. Instructor, preferred SDI but can be any agency...

I am presently in Siquijor in the Visayas, and I have to say that I fall in love with the reefs here more and more. The hard coral cover is healthy, and there is a good amount of very nice macro to look at and photograph. A lot of the anemones have one or a few kinds of crustaceans living on...

Group of 4, we all just got our SSI OW certification this week and brand new divers. Well be visiting family in CEBU January of this year and trying to plan an itinerary for 21 days to see all the amazing Philippine diving sites possible. The first 3 nights are Mactan and plan on getting...

Being the contrarian which I am, I went to Subic Bay to photograph not all the ship wrecks there, but the small animals which live on and around the wrecks. And there are lots of them. Especially cleaner shrimp seem to love the wrecks. Gobies of the hovering type (Trimma) can be found on the...

I had the pleasure of working with Hakai magazine to compile a photo essay from my shots of animals living on, and under the sand in tropical oceans. Having spent a lot of time in Dauin/Negros, Philippines, I had a lot of images of sand dwellers. Hakai magazine was great to work with, with very...

Hello All! Long post warning!Hubby and I are planning a trip to Philippines the last 3 weeks in March. We arrive in Manila and fly straight to Coron. We want to dive as much as possible but only have OW certifications. We are not that into wrecks and would like to see as much biodiversity as we...

Dreaming to become a dive instructor? Dreaming too live on a tropical island? Dreaming to be the whole day in the sun and the water? Exotic Dive Resort is a PADI Instructor Development Dive resort on Malapascua in the Philippines. Malapascua is famous for spotting the Thresher sharks. It is one...

The well-known shrimp-goby symbiosis. What I am not sure about is the reason for the odd jerking movements of the gobies. These are not the usual warning signals to the shrimp, I believe. Some of the jawing is respiratory, I assume, but why the upper-body jerks, and the bouncing up and down...