Where to Scuba Dive Best in the Philippines

Scuba diving is one of the extreme sports that you must try at least once in your life. This sport, which includes the interaction of exercise, adventure and nature, can be done in many locations around the world.

We've compiled and presented to you the best places to scuba dive in the Philippines. You can get UP TO 30.78% cashback from your hotel, car rental and flight reservations with Bitbook.

Negros Oriental

Dauin is a vacation and scuba diving center located on Negros Oriental Island. This place is located on a warm sea at the southern tip of the state. Scuba diving is done in this place, which has man-made reefs such as San Miguel Tire Reef. In fact, what attracted a wide variety of fish here was that a large pile of car tires falling into the sea somehow created an artificial reef.

It is even better if you have a nitrox certificate for this place where you can do shallow dives and dive for more than 40 minutes with a standard air cylinder. Some dive sites are located in protected sea areas, if you want to shoot with an underwater camera in these areas, you must pay a separate permit fee. If you do mud diving here, you have to carefully step on the alluvium on the seafloor. If you press hard on the floor on your fins and body, your vision may be blocked due to mud and you may miss living things around.

Panglao Island

Again, we will recommend a place from the Philippines, the scuba diving center of the world. Panglao Island in the Philippines' Bohol province is a great location for scuba diving in the sea with sharks and whales. A few companies here offer shark diving services.

Clear water, white beaches and marine biodiversity have turned this island town into a paradise. At the Diving Festival held here every year, divers compete in an underwater photography competition.