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 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 increased significantly, 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.
Apo Island has fantastic wall diving and the usual strong current brings pelagic visitors to the colorful reef.

Underwater photographs from Negros/Apo Island ãPeter 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 are found so far, as well as seldom crabs and nudibranchs. Sea grass ghost pipefish and pegasus fish are regular visitors to Cabilao reefs. Real critters like reef stonefish, stargazer and different kind of devilfish are spotted day- and nighttime. Apart from all the small stuff, Cabilao offers excellent wall dives with beautiful corals and sometimes a big shoal of Barracudas out in the blue.

A minimum of 4 guests is required for a dive trip. Please note that the trips are weather dependent. Underwater photographs from Cabilao Island ãSimon P. Oliver Born 1967 in Toronto, Simon is a marine scientist specializing in the behavior of pelagic thresher sharks, Alopias pelagicus. Currently a PhD candidate at the University of Wales, Simon's aspiration to conduct marine biological and ecological research stemmed from his 12 years of experience as an underwater photographer. Simon is a fervent environmentalist who dedicates his life efforts to "putting something back".

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