subic bay

Subic Bay north of Manila has some cool ship wrecks which are not only attractive for history buffs. The wrecks are also a special kind of large, elaborate artificial reefs, which have become the home to lots of invertebrates and fishes. Especially cardinalfish, scorpionfish and batfish seem to...

A short video illustrating the RAID Advanced Wreck course. This course was held in Subic Bay, Philippines during March 2018. The RAID Advanced Wreck course is a recreational wreck penetration course, the prerequisite is just AOW diver (and aged 15+). Training can be conducted using sidemount...

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 recently had the chance to photograph several of the wrecks in Subic Bay, Philippines. We did some of the dives as tech dives, one, to the Banshu Maru, due to the depth (52 meters), others, in the 35-45 meter range, to get more bottom time. The visibility was mixed, some dives inside the bay...