Napaling
Location - Located at the centre of the northwest face of Panglao Island.
Access - 45min-1hr by banca from Alona Beach west around the southwest end of Panglao Island.
Average Depth - 50ft
Maximum Depth - 65ft
Conditions - Calm with some current. You would not normally make the journey if conditions were rough, but the current can be strong on spring tides. Usually done as a drift-dive with visibility up to 100ft.
This dive starts as a shallow coral shelf which is a rich coral garden, great for snorkellers and underwater photographers. There is small amount of blast-fishing damage, but not that much.
The wall has everything one would expect of such a site - good visibility, colourful soft corals, large sponges and crinoids, nudibranchs, flat worms, sea cucumbers and sea stars.
Duljo
Location - Located at the southwest point of Panglao Island.
Access - 35-50min by banca from Alona Beach west around the southwest end of Panglao Island to its southwest tip, which is Duljo Point. (At low tide the bancas have to make a wide sweep around the reef edge at the southwest end of Panglao island, adding up to 15min to the journey.
Average Depth - 65ft
Maximum Depth - 115ft
Conditions - Usually calm with a strong current, but can be rough with fierce currents with visibility up to 130ft.
A drift-drive takes you along the edge of a sandy slope with coral heads to 36ft, then drops off to a wall. Currents are usually strong
Pungtud Wall
Location - Located at the outer edge of Pungtud Islet.
Access - 35min west by banca from Alona Beach to the western edge of the reef at the southwest end of Pangao Island.
Average Depth - 33ft
Maximum Depth - 65ft
Conditions - Normally dived only in calm conditions, though there can be strong currents. Snorkellers should have banca cover when the currents are running with visibility up to 100ft.
This beautiful coral garden slopes from 2m (6 1/2 ft) to 20m (65ft). There are good soft, leathery and stony corals with lots of small fish, sea stars, sea cucumbers and sea urchins, anemones with clownfish, angelfish, butterflyfish, pufferfish and wrasse.
Diving Sites: Napaling, Duljo Point, Pungtud Wall, Southwest Wall/Rico's Wall, Southeast Wall/Rudy's Rock, Northeast Slope/Black Forest, Kalipayan, Arco Point (The Hole in the Wall), Cervera Shoal (Spaghetti Shoal), Pamilacan Island - Northwest Side, Hammerhead Point (Northwest Point), Southwest Point (Drifting North), Southwest Point (Drifting South and East)
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