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MAINIT this exhilarating drift dive you’ll see yellow patches of sand that are hot to touch. This is due to the nearby thermal hot springs. The sloping patchy reef can have some strong currents and has a school of pretty big barracuda’s patrolling, as well as schools of Surgeonfish, Fusiliers and Yellow Snapper.
SAN MIGUEL NORTH Just north of San Miguel tires and another great macro site. With Sea Grass beds in the shallows and a sandy slope at a gentle gradient, you can do long dives without the worry of your NDL’s getting low.
SAN MIGUEL TIRES This dive site is critter heaven. It starts on a sandy slope that can seem bare at first but upon closer inspection you’ll see lots and lots of weird and wonderful critters.
SAN MIGUEL REEF Starting at the same slope as San Miguel Tires, this dive site ends in a beautiful sloping reef home to lots of Anemones inhabited by Clownfish, Shrimps and Crabs.
ATLANTIS HOUSE REEF Our house reef is located right out front of Toko’s Restaurant and is home to some amazing marine life. It has Sea Grass beds in the shallows where you can see schools of Razorfish and quite regularly a resident Green Turtle happily feeding on the Sea Grass. A sandy slope, full of well-camouflaged critters, leads down to some old car tires that are covered with 14 years worth of coral and sponge growth.
SAHARA REEF This sloping reef can be a nice drift dive on the right tide. Lots of reef fish hang out here and Green Sea Turtles are commonly seen here feeding in the Sea Grass beds. There are a few coral heads; one normally has a Moray Eel living inside with some beautiful Scarlet Cleaner Shrimps.
SAHARA DEEP A deeper muck dive that for sure has something hiding that you’ve never seen before. Outrageously coloured Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Frogfish that can be as tiny as a grain of rice, Soft Coral Crabs, Spiney Devilfish and many more macro favorites.
PUNTA Punta’ means ‘Corner’ in the local dialect, and is situated on the far southern end of the beach that the resort is situated.
CERES This site is in between Punta and Cars, so the topography is a mixture of the two. A sandy/rubble slope on one side that leads into a more ‘muck-like’ bottom as you head south towards Cars.
SHALLOW CARS Another great muck dive, where you can spend the whole dive in just 5m/15ft of water! As with most of the dive sites in the Dauin area, the sand or ‘muck’ is home to numerous spectacular little critters.
CARS One of our deeper ‘muck dives’, where the main attraction are two car wrecks that lay in about 30m/100ft of water.
DAUIN NORTE Our most popular dive site, once you dived it you’ll understand why. The start of the dive is a sandy slope with some mooring block that are home to Ghost Pipefish, Frogfish, different species of Shrimps and Crabs, Nudibranchs and much more.
DAUIN SUR this dive site starts on a rich sandy slope and ends in a beautiful reef, which if you catch the current running in the right direction, can make a nice drift all the way through to Dauin Norte.
GINAMA-AN Ginama-an means ‘man made’ in the local language and the name befits, as this dive site is made up out of old car tires. These tires attract a lot of different reef fish and lots of crustaceans and are covered in colorful sponges and corals.
MASAPLOD NORTE This dive can sometimes have a bit of current and turns into a nice drift dive letting you take in your surroundings while leisurely riding the current. Most of the time, however, it is current free letting you take your time and explore the reef in search of all sorts of critters.
PYRAMIDS This site has something for everybody. You normally start the dive from the shallow mooring line that brings you down into the Sea Grass beds at around 5m/15ft, then swim down the sandy slope to the artificial reef made from a number of metal pyramid-like structures that stretch from 15m/50ft down to 22m/80ft. Down a bit deeper are some Black Corals where you can find Banded Tozeuma Shrimps and Xeno Crabs.
MASAPLOD SUR This site is made up of two patches of reef, with sandy gullies in between and an artificial reef made from old car tires.
BAHURA This sloping reef is the site to see the cartoon-like Mandarinfish. They live on a shallow bank of Lettuce Coral and you can see them at dusk each evening, when the males attempt to entice the females into spawning by displaying their bright livery in their daily mating ritual.

 

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