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Dive Sites in Panglao, Bohol

With PrAna Bohol dive shop, you'll have the following dive sites in Panglao;

Napaling – Tagnan, Panglao Island

Average depth: 15m

Maximum depth: 30m

Napaling boasts of a beautiful coral garden ideal for underwater photographers and snorkelers. Wonderful overhangs and some caves abound with soldierfish, squirrelfish, moray eels, scorpion fish, and table corals. White tip reef sharks are also spotted here.

Doljo Point – Doljo, Panglao Island

Average depth: 20m

Maximum depth: 35m

Doljo Point boasts of a wall covered with sponges, colorful corals, soft corals, and large sea fans. Large pelagic fishes such as surgeon fish, jacks, and bat fish can be seen along with squid and the occasional white tip reef shark and hammerhead shark.

Doljo House Reef – Doljo, Panglao Island

Depth ranges from 3 to 25 meters

This site consists of a wall dive which is beautiful with many kinds of hard corals and sandy spots. Many cardinal fishes of different kinds, crabs, and shrimps, gobies can be seen here aside from nudibranches, harlequin ghost pipefish and clown frog fish. 

Pungtud Wall – Doljo, Panglao Island

Average depth: 10m

Maximum depth: 20m

Pungtud Wall is a beautiful coral garden, great for snorkeling as well as for diving. There are good soft, leathery and stony corals with lots of small fish, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, and sea stars, angelfish, putterfish, butterfly fish, wrasse, and anemones with anemone fish. Fishes such as anthias, raggy scorpion fish, ribbon eel (Rhinomuraena quaesita), one-striped fusiliers (Pterocaesio tessellata) can also be seen here.

Kalipayan – Danao, Panglao Island

Average depth: 10m

Maximum depth: 20m

Kalipayan is the house reef of Alona Beach and is also known as the “Happy Wall”. Conditions here are normally calm, without currents, and a visibility of up to 25m. The wall starts at about 3m, and drops down to about 20m, and has soft and colorful coral heads, sea fans, small groupers and juvenile barracudas.

Garden Eels – Danao, Panglao Island

Most interesting depth: 8-12m

At the beginning of the dive is a beautiful bow-shaped cliff with nudibranches. A beautiful coral garden is on the top of the wall with lots of small fishes like Red-Amethyst-Purple Fin Anthias. At the bottom of the slope is the splendid sand eels (Heteroconger preclara) and spotted garden eel (Heteroconger hassi).

Habagat Wreck Dive Site

Depth: ranges from 8-34m

Seen above the wreck are Tall Fin Batfish (Platax Teira) and under the wreck the Big Lion fish (Pterois volitans), Giant Angelfish (Catenaries commersonii), different kinds of Cardinal Fishes (Apogonidae), Angelfish, and the Harlequin Ghost Pipefish (Solenostomus Paradaxus).

Crystal Sanctuary – Danao, Panglao Island

Depth ranges from 3-25m

The Crystal Sanctuary is the closest dive site to Alona Beach. The dive spot is picturesque with beautiful hard and soft corals, schools of jacks, bat fish, big-eyed trevally, lone barracudas, big mouth mackerel, fusilier, surgeon fish, snappers and damsels. There are also lots of gobbies, nudibranches, coral pipefish, and mantis shrimp. The area has sanctuary restriction.

Arco Point – Libaong, Panglao Island

Average depth: 10m

Maximum depth: 25m

Located near the exclusive Bohol Beach Club, Arco Point is also known as the “Hole in the Wall”. Along the short wall, small groupers, trigger fish, wrasse, butterfly fish, sea snakes and moray eels can be seen. The cave teems with Cardinal fish and Sergeant Major fish (Abudefduf vaigiensis) waiting to be fed. Inside the cave on the east are White-eyed Moray eel (Siderea thyrsoidea), and Black-finned Snake eels (Ophichthus melanochir).

Cervera Shoal or Snake Island – Libaong, Panglao Island

Average depth: 15m

Maximum depth: over 60m

Cervera Shoal, is also known as “Snake island” or “Spaghetti Shoal because of the large number of black-and-white-banded sea snakes that can be seen here. There are many Black/White-Banded Sea Snakes (Luticauda colubrina), White-eyed Moray eel(Siderea thyrsoidea), Starry Moray eel (Echidna Nebolosa), Nudibranches, and the small reef fish.

Momo Beach Dive Site – Tangnan, Panglao Island

Most interesting depth at 3 to 4 meters

This site is good for macro diving and macro photography at the shallow depth. Divers will be rewarded with sightings of pajama cardinal fish, nudibranches, leaf fishes, red-eyed goby, many kinds of juvenile wrasse, harlequin filefish and the red spot cardinal fish.

Balicasag Island Dive Sites 
Balicasag Island is located southwest of Panglao Island and can be reached in 30 minutes by boat from Alona Beach on Panglao Island. It is a small island belonging to the municipality of Panglao, and is home to a small community, two light-houses and one resort. The island’s 25 hectares can be easily covered in 30-45 minutes by foot.

Balicasag Island is known to have some of the best dive sites in the Philippines. Diver’s Heaven features an aquarium with a grand array of fish and marine life. 

Turtle Point, named for the numerous turtles inhabiting the caves 60 to 70 meters down. 

On the southwest side is the Cathedral Wall, which is a section of a wall that has many recesses where divers can explore. 

Royal Garden is at the northern side of the island, covered with a thick coral forming a kaleidoscope of multi-colored reef full of an assortment of tropical fish. 

One of the most famous dive sites around Balicasag Island is Black Forest which is named for the forest of black corals which is rarely seen on a shallow 90-foot depth.

PrAna Dive Shop

PrAna is here to help you ;    

Discover 
      -the underwater wonders of Panglao Island, one of the top ten diving locations in the world which belongs to the first class island province of the Philippines called Bohol. 

and 

Improve 
      -your diving skills and knowledge in recreational or technical diving with our team of specialists.

The PrAna group is dedicated to providing you with an unsurpassed diving experience. 

Based at the incredibly beautiful Tarsier Botanika on Panglao Island, PrAna boasts the very best equipment and professional instructors to guide you through your experiences. Whether you are a novice diver or a seasoned veteran our staff will ensure your expectations are not just met but exceeded. 

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