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Shark Week at Yapak!!

 Its another great week of Diving at YAPAK 2 ! Our Divemaster Chad took a great pic or this 2 meter Black tip reef shark cruising around at 34 meters. They also spotted 3 white tips and some tuna! This is why Yapak is always a great dive for divers with advanced or higher certification, [...]

Boracays Best Sites

Learn about each dive site Boracay has to offer before you go!
Angol Point
6m-16m Deep
Experience level: Beginner
Expect to be swarmed with thousands of fish at this site! Angol point is a favorite beginner dive site with 2 large coral reef boulders in about 12 meters of water rising up to 7 meters at the top. Because [...]

Maningning Trip update

The trip was fantastic! First dive 30meter visibility, giant clams, stone fish and a huge school of surgons! Then lunch on the island with the locals who cooked us up some fresh Mahi-Mahi or dorado fish. Second dive we saw a napoleon wrasse, 2 giant cuttle fish and large jacks!

Dive Safari to Maningning

All the instructors are taking the morning off to go to Maningning (Maniguin) Island. Its the best diving in the Boracay Area. 40 meter visibility, Rays, Sharks, Napoleon Wrasses are common. We will do one dive and lunch on the island and Hike up to the Old light house built in 1909. after the luch [...]

giant pregnant pufferfish

Today Svenya completed her Open water dive 4 at Crocodile Rock! We wanted to see the best soft coral in boracay and we did. The water was 27C degrees much warmer now and the vis about 15 meters! What a great day to be diving in Boracay! I have to say when Svenya did one [...]

2 Octopi at Balinghai

Mark, Doung and myself went out to Balinghai today on a mission to check out the artificial reefs.
The “reef balls” as they are called were put down March 2005 by the Boracay Scuba association. They are doing very well now with some soft and hard coral growth. Mark spotted a Octopus peeking it head out [...]

Getting Wrecked with Serena

Day 2, of Serena’s WRECK Specialty class on Boracays Camia wreck ! I put down some cave line for our wreck penetration dive just to demonstrate the skills required. Then It was her turn to put into practice the line laying techniques we tried back at the shop. She did great! No snagging the line [...]

Busy week of training

We’d no sooner returned to lovely Boracay from our trip to Puerto Galera when Dave & Blanche arrived, ready to start their open water training. The class was an engagement gift from Dave to Blanche. My hat is off to these two. By the time that they were finished, both of them completed not only [...]

I found 500 pesos

I was at Angol Point with Lee and Ms. Fong. It was a Great dive!!!!!! It was cool because the water was clear and my divers were comfortable. Ms Fong was a certified as scuba diver and was only diving for 4 months. She was very excited to be in the water. So excited she [...]

Angol 2

Larry and I checked out Boracays newest dive site Angol point 2 and It was awesome!
We were greeted at the site by a very large Mantis shrimp, which let us get unusually close to him. Larry and I headed west out to 3 horn rock as I call it where we saw a small yellow [...]

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