Dive Site:Kyokuzan Maru (wreck)
Location: Off Dimalanta Island By banca 45 min
Depth: ave:30 m maximum: 43 m
Features:This Japanese freighter measures about 152 m long and lies almost upright. The main structures remain intact. It carries in one of its holds a car and a truck. This wreck provides shelter to batfishes and substrate for the ubiquitous bivalves. Fusiliers, trevallies,barracudas and rays are occasionally sighted.

Dive Site:Barry’s Reef
Location: Near Pearl Farm By banca 30 min
Depth: 3-30 m
Features:There are plenty of macro subjects on this reef: Spanish dancers, sweetlips, anemones, anemone fish and shrimps. There is one huge cabbage coral about 2.5 m in diameter and Acropora coral about 2 m in diameter. Small to medium-sized Porites corals are arranged to form some sort of a big stairway.

Dive Site:Apo Reef
Location: Mindoro Strait By banca about 3 hr
Depth: > 50 m
Features:Second most facinating reef in the Philippines! Very dramatic drop-offs down to about 400 m. The steep walls are well covered with corals, sponges, tunicates, nudibranchs and slugs. The coral formation is magnificent at the plateau. Green and hawksbill turtles and multitude of fish including damselfish, butterfly fish, batfish, surgeonfish, snappers, fusiliers and trevallies are usually seen. Strong currents increase the chance of sighting mantas, great barracudas and sharks. This reef is also known as the Apo Reef Natural Park.

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