Diving in the Philippines
The Philippines... 7107 paradise-Islands with unlimited diving opportunities. Big stuff, macro-paradise, wreck-diving, drift-diving, healthy coral gardens, deep walls, diving-safaris... all in one country .... The archipelago only looses when it comes to Ice-diving...
If you are a beginner, dive-professional underwater-photographer or Tec-diver, when you plan your vacation in the right way you will have a great life-time experience and will return to the Philippines many times. This site tries to help you and provides useful information about traveling and diving all around the Philippines.
Luzon |
Mindoro | Visayas | Visayas | Palawan | Mindanao |
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Bohol |
Boracay |
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Anilao |
Verde Island |
Sulu Sea |
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Cebu |
Coron |
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Most dive-shops in the Philippines offer an all-around service. The dive shop staff takes care of all equipment. They set it up in the morning, carry everything to the dive-boats, help you gearing up, changing tanks during the day and rinsing your equipment at the end of the day before they store it in the storage - area. The only thing you have to do is breathing and enjoying the underwater-world.
The most common Scuba-cylinder in the Philippines is a 80 cu ft (12 liter) aluminum-tank with a joke valve. If you dive with a DIN-valve bring your own adaptor. Some shops have both kind of valves, but they might run out of them and it would be sad to miss a dive because of a 10-dollar piece of equipment.
Most dive-sites in the Philippines are just a short short boat ride away from the dive shop (5 - 20 minutes) and are done with small speedboats or the local style of outrigger boats, called Banca (or Bangka, or Banka, or, or, or,...) This boats are quite long with a narrow hull and wide flexible bamboo outriggers on both sides. They are used for transportation between the 7107 Islands since hundreds of years and are very reliable and stabled in the waters. Nowadays they are powered by truck-diesel-engines. This kind of boats is also used for diving - day trips to remote Islands or even for short dive-safaris.
We provide you on our our web site a neutral overview about this wonderful country, the people and culture and the great diving opportunities in the Philippines. The Team of Philippinen-Tauchen.com lives and works since many years in the Philippines. We are happy to receive your comments, suggestions and critics. Also join our community on our online board.