Baling Hai Beach
Location - Located northwest of Diniuid.
Access - 10min north by boat.
Average Depth - 50ft
Maximum Depth - 80ft
Conditions - Calm with occasionally a slight current with visibility up to 80ft.
A rich coral garden runs down a gentle slope from 23ft to 10m 33ft, then you go over the drop-off down to sand at 80ft. The drop-off itself runs north-to-south for 656ft.
The coral garden has profuse soft, leathery and Acropora table corals, and there are good stony corals down the drop-off. There is a fine variety of reef fishes.
Friday's Rock
Location - Located southwest of Diniuid.
Access - 10min north by boat.
Average Depth - 60ft
Maximum Depth - 60ft
Conditions - Calm with some current. Visibility up to 80ft.
Friday's Rock itself is a large boulder rising from sand at 60ft, with its top at 23ft. The sand beside the rock is used by local dive operators as a fun dive with fish-feeding, so the fish come at you as as you approach (but please don't be tempted to feed them).
On the sand there are Blue-spotted Lagoon rays, moray eels, ribbon eels, Linckia starfish, Choriaster Cushion Starfish, Pincushion Starfish and sea cucumbers.
Lobster Rock
Location - Located west of Balabag.
Access - 10min north by boat.
Average Depth - 45ft
Maximum Depth - 52ft
Conditions - Calm with occasionally a slight current with visibility up to 65ft.
Lobster Rock, a large rock is the standard night dive for advanced courses locally. There is a small colony of Spiny Lobsters, plus surgeonfish, angelfish, butterflyfish, damselfishand sergeant majors, most of which hide in holes in the reef at night, when crabs, shrimps, moray eels and shellfish come out to feed.
Diving Sites: Bel-At Beach, Yapak 1, Yapak 2, Punta Bonga, Baling Hai Beach, Friday's Rock, Lobster Rock, Greenyard, Angol, Crocodile Island, Laurel I, Laurel II, Channel Drift, Unidos Point, Nasog Point, Dog Drift, Buruanga, Black Rock, Carabao Island - Cathedral, Carabao Island - Village Reef, Carabao Island - Village Mountain,
Carabao Island - West Wall, Maniguin Island - North Face, Maniguin Island - South Face
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