The Blue Abyss Dive Shop offer trips to superb diving destinations in the Philippines. All trips will be personally accompanied by one of our Instructors/divemasters. All transfers are over land by minivan/car with air-conditioning. This is your chance to see different islands/dive sites in a relative short time. You will encounter animals that are very seldom throughout the whole Philippines.
DIVE TRIP TO SOUTHERN LEYTE      
On the west coast of Cebu, 7 days/6 nights, 11 dives, accommodation in double room and transfer from Moalboal to Leyte and from Leyte to Moalboal.      
       

Whalesharks can be seen in Southern Leyte in season from January - April.

The Whalesharks congregate in a shallow bay using the area for feeding purposes.
The interaction with these gentle giants can only be done snorkeling.Southern Leyte offers wonderful scuba diving with spectacular dive sites in one of the Philippines’ most recently discovered dive destinations.


The prolific marine life ranges from pygmy seahorses through to whale sharks and there is also an incredible variety of extremely healthy and undamaged hard and soft coral.

Sogod Bay offers a plethora of pristine reefs and  much of the Sogod Bay area is essentially virgin territory and as a result  new dive sites are still discovered..

 photographs of Leyte by Peter Popp

 
DIVETRIP TO NEGROS/APO ISLAND
On the west coast of Cebu, 4 days/3 nights, 7 dives, accommodation in double room and transfer from Moalboal to Negros and from Negros to Moalboal.
 

Negros offers many successful marine parks along the coastline and the close by Apo Island.

In the last years the volume of fish increasedsignificantly, at some dive spots you can see big groupers, Sweetlips, Angelfishes and a big shoal of mackerel.

The house reef is protected as well and serves as home for many stingrays, frogfishes and different kinds of nudibranch.

The coast of Negros offers dark volcanic sand and therefore you will find animals which are not seen in other regions.

Diving here is really a unique experience with lots of critters.

Apo Island has fantastic wall diving and the usually strong current brings pelagic visitors to the reef.

Negros Island is a place for macro and critter fans as the sites along the cost have nearly no coral growth but an impressive variety of unique marine critters.


 photographs  Negros/Apo Island by Peter Herzel

     

 
DIVE TRIP TO CABILAO ISLAND
On the east coast of Cebu. 4 days/3 nights, 8 dives, accommodation in double room and transfer from Moalboal to Cabilao and from Cabilao to Moalboal.

 

For all those of you who are interested to see seldom species, this is the ultimate dive trip.

Macro Photographers will be delighted from the variety Cabilao has to offer.

Different species of Pygmy Seahorses like Hippocampus Denise and Hippocampus Bargibanti are found so far, as well as seldom crabs and nudibranchs. 

Real critters like reef stonefish, stargazer and different kind of devilfish are spotted day- and night time.

Apart from all the small stuff, Cabilao offers excellent wall dives with beautiful corals, sponges and seagras areas.

In the blue mackerel, tuna and barracudas as observed as well as Napoleon fishes.

photographs  Cabilao Island by  Simon P. Oliver
       
 A minimum of 4 guests is required for a dive trip. Please note that the trips are weather dependent.      
       
     

Aspiring marine/shark scientists may apply to assist Simon in conducting fieldwork.  This is a unique opportunity for individuals with a keen interest in marine/shark science to gain hands on experience in shark survey methodology, behaviour, biology, ecology and conservation.  Volunteer research assistants will be based on Malapascua Island and shuttled to Monad Shoal aboard a dedicated research vessel. 

More informations at: www.threshersharkproject.org