Moalboal offers 13 official dive sites which are all protected by mooring buoys. Three of them are so far declared as marine sanctuary. All divers pay a user fee which allows them to enter all marine parks. For detailed information please visit the official website of the MDCA (Moalboal Dive Center Association) www.scuba-mdca.com. The sites are reached within 15 minutes by boat and we always return after the dive to our dive shop.

This gives you a long surface interval between dives to ensure your safety. All dives are accompanied by an Instructors/Dive master, who will guide you to a maximum depth of 40 m.

A complete description of all our dive sites you will find at www.dive-moalboal.com.

In our opinion the best site to find small, rare creatures. The house reef is the ideal place for all photographers who will be delighted with fantastic macro subjects. Dives on the house reef are easy to organize and can be done at any time of the day. From your entry point you see little patches of sea grass that host nudibranchs and hermit crabs. As you get closer to the drop off picasso trigger fish pass by and pipefish are abandoned.

The wall is cover with sponges, soft corals and different anemones with their anemone fish. If you take your time you can find harlequin ghost pipefish, pink squat lobsters, Xeno- and soft coral crabs, as well as different nudibranchs. Also our night dives are conducted at this site.

This small island facing Panagsama Beach offers an impressive variety of corals and is arguably the best wall dive in our area.
A shallow reef shelf that varies in depth from 3 - 8 m surrounds Pescador Island. Then the wall drops off to depths of 40 m and more.
Along the drop off you find beautiful black corals and gorgonians sea fans that decorate the steep wall with breathtaking colors. As you descend through the blue, snappers and tunas hunting for food and on occasions Spanish mackerels are passing by. A special feature is the "Pescador cathedral" with its wide chimney that starts at 18m and opens at 30m where you can exit.
Along the bottom encounters with white tip reef sharks are very common.
Pescador Island is a dive for everybody, and offers for the beginner as well as for the experienced a little piece of paradise.

On the way to this dive spot you will have an idyllic boat ride along beautiful white beaches with coconut palms. This site is also very good to be viewed with only mask and snorkel in shallow depths, to enjoy the huge variety of corals.
The reef shelf on white beach is a long stretch fully grown over with mainly hard corals, like table-and stag horn corals. From a depth at around 6m a sand slope leads to an edge around 22m where the wall finally drops of to greater depths.
The sand slope is covered with soft corals and ascidians that often host nudibranches. Sometimes you can see a napoleon wrasse passing by the wall. Also turtles have been observed here and lizardfish and garden eels use the sandy areas as a home.

This site south of Panagsama beach offers a nice drift dive, where the boat follows the divers to their exit point. Tongo point offers many small caves and overhangs that often host turtles.
The reef shelf is very shallow around 3m and home to many juveniles including batfish, sweetlips, groupers and angelfish. Schools of big mouth mackerel and needlefishes are seen in the blue. So especially for photographers the shelf offers a big variety on small stuff, as nudibranches are also very common here. Along the wall lots of razor fish are hovering over black corals and sometimes schools of squids are seen in the distance.

Underwaterphotographs ãLorenz Schweizer