Dive Sites

Found in the west of Danao Beach, this is a deep coral wall starting at 3-meter depth and going down to up to 60 meters. The wall offers a good chance to find various nudibranch, eels, frogfish, scorpion fish, and leaf fish. It is also a famous spot for the cleaning station of jackfish, grouper, and wrasse.

Rudy’s Rock is nestled at one of the many cluster dive points within the southeast region of Balicasag. It is about 12 kilometers from Belleview Rock Resort, around 30 minutes transfer via motorized boat. This dive spot is ideal for PADI open water divers.

Splendid sites are visible straight away at a depth of around 15 meters. There is a diversity of soft and hard corals and sporadic big eye trevallies drift beyond in groups or swim in large circles making flurries similar to underwater whirlwinds. Midnight snappers, sweetlip fish, and green turtles are also spotted here.

This coral plateau is a color festival, with turtles, schools of fish, and lots of macro life. Royal Garden is the kind of site where you can spend over an hour shallower than 10 meters deep and never get bored once. Off the plateau, a gentle slope heads out: take your time and check for camouflaged and half-burried marine life. This is an ideal site for first-timers and underwater photographs.

This coral wall has more overhands and indentations and is relatively shallower than the Balicasag Sanctuary. Sightings of whip corals and thousands of small reef fish are common in the shallow parts. Like the Black Forest, this is typically a drift dive. Look out also for turtles, giant barracuda, and blue-fin trevallies.

This is a coral-covered slope starting at roughly 5-meter depth going down to over 30 meters. It is famous for the black corals that thrive in the area. Towards the end of the dive, you will encounter a multitude of small colorful fish and wonderful corals.