Helicopter Island
Helicopter is a mix of coral reefs and sandy areas. Beautiful Staghorn and massive corals inhabit the reef. Blue Spotted Stingrays, Flounders, Pipefish and Garden Eels are easily found in the sandy bottoms while Turtles, Cuttlefish and Ribbon Eels are just some of the species you will encounter on the reef during your dive here
by boat 20 min
sometimes its poor visibility down to 5 metres. sometimes there can be currents as well.
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Deep rock
far out from el Nido takes about 30 min with boat. where you can go deep and you can also there are currents.
by boat 30 min
sometimes poor visibility and sometimes there are strong currents
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30
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Entaluia
With boat 20 minutes south west of El Nido, you can find a really fun dive site, where also its possible to spot turtles. Sometimes its poor visibility and relative strong currents
by boat 25 minutes
pretty harsh conditions
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22
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Paglugaban
If you have not yet been, I can only describe Paglugaban Cave as truly amazing! This part of Palawan?s geography and geology is estimated to have formed about 300 million years ago.
As such, all of Paglugaban speleothem are very old. In fact, even the cave floor and all of its sediment had taken millions of years to compact and remain undisturbed. Regretfully, not everything has been good.
During our last visit a few weeks ago, we discovered many disturbances on the cave floor such as finger marks and depressions as deep as 5cm, obviously from divers pushing off from the bottom. We also found many other marks and tracks indicating divers had settled on the floor for whatever reason.
One even drew letters on the floor that if we attempt to erase, may just add more to the disturbance.
Hence, these marks are now permanent, or will at least remain visible in our lifetime. We found these and other irregularities such as hazardous line work left inside, and line arrows without any directional purpose. We have since removed these unnecessary incidentals, and the line-work is again safe to use for emergency exits.
Despite all the signs of ignorant but unintentional behavior, the cave remains majestic and breath-taking
by boat 20 minutes
can be poor visibility and storng currents
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25
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Miniloc
Miniloc Island is located at the center of Bacuit Bay. Home to the stunning Small, Big and Hidden Lagoon, Miniloc offers enjoyable dive sites for all levels of divers ? from colorful coral gardens to barracudas, sharks, groupers and bumpheads. When a light current is present, expect to see trevallies and mackerels hunting schools of fusiliers.
by boat 20 minutes
sometimes poor visibility and sometimes strog currents
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25
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Twin Rocks
On the north side of Miniloc island, this site slopes from 13-21m and has a sandy bottom. It is characterized by a profusion of table corals, sea whips and sponges. You will see small stingray and angelfish here.
What you will see : Corals : Giant barrel sponge ? Tree coral ? Blue spotted stingray ? Mantis shrimp ? Reef octopus ? Unicorn fish ? Crocodile fish ? Yellow tail barracuda ? Spadefish fusillier ? Sea turtle ? Moray eel
If you?re lucky :) Ornate Pipefish ? Bumphead Parrotfish ? Eagle Ray
by boat 40 minutes
some really strong surges which makes it hard to swim against.
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35
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North Rock
The dive site is home to a multitude of different environments. A flat reef with huge table corals, beautiful rock formations and swim throughs covered in soft corals. These reefs are inhabited by a group of black tip reef sharks, a huge school of barracuda, sting rays, cuttlefish, unicorn fish and the graceful spade fish.
by boat
sometimes poor visibility
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25
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