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 Dive sites in Moalboal.  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 boat dives are accompanied by an Instructors/Dive master, who will guide you to a maximum depth of 40 m. We offer two boat dives daily at 8.30 AM in the morning and at 1.30 PM in the afternoon. The house reef is open for our divers during the daytime hours.

 
           

A complete description of all our dive sites you will find at www.dive-moalboal.com.
           
Pescador Island  
   
This small island facing Panagsama Beach offers an impressive variety of marine life and is arguably the best wall dive in our area.

The boatride to reach the island takes less than 10 minutes and can be visited in the morning as well as in the afternoon.

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.

On the self you find a good mix between soft coral and some hard coral corals. Along the drop off Anthias are found in breathtaking colors and the first sardines start to swim around you.

Out in the blue and along the steep walls you encounter millions of sardines which build the most amazing shapes once can imagine.

Since the sardines arrived in Pescador Island
the number of predators is increasing constantly, including spanish mackerel, jackfish, dogtooth Tunas and the impressive pelagic thresher shark.

The thresher sharks are usually seen out in the blue approaching the big shoals of sardines. Close encounters are possibe, depending on the way they are approached by the divers sometimes you can even see a whaleshark.

Along the drop off you find beautiful black corals and gorgonians sea fans that decorate the steep wall with breathtaking colors.

A special feature is the "Pescador cathedral" which is a wide chimney that starts at 18m and opens up at around 30m where you can exit. When the sun is out you have perfect photo opportunities inside the cathedral.

Along the bottom encounters with white tip reef sharks are very common and sometimes small shoals of barracudas are seen as well.

Pescador Island is a dive for everybody, and offers for the beginner as well as for the experienced a little piece of paradise.

Housereef
















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, also our night dives are usually conducted at this site.
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. macro subjects.
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 and soft coral crabs.

 It is common to see turtles on this dive, mainly green turtles but hawksbill turtles have also been observed.

White Beach
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.
   
   
Tongo Point
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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. Along the wall you see big gorgonian seafans which sometimes host pygmy Seahorses (Hippocampus Denise).Schools of big mouth mackerel and needlefishes are seen in the blue.Along the wall lots of razor fish are hovering over black corals and sometimes schools of squids are seen in the distance.
 
Photographs from Lorenz Schweizer
 
Find more descriptions of our dive sites at:
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Find specific marine creatures with the new guide from Joris Rombouts:
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