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“The best wreck diving in the Philippines” |
Fantastic PADI Gold Palm dive centre - staff and facilities were excellent. Diving was amazing!!! Over 9 penetrable wrecks to dive, all in very good condition. See www.seadiveresort.com for further details of the dive sites.
If wrecks are not your thing, there are some other quite interesting and unusual dives : 1) Cathedral Cave is a beautiful dive spot. It starts 6 meters deep at a hole in the bottom of the sea next to the sheer rock wall of Coron Island. You enter a tunnel and descend to 12 meters. If you take the time to look, you see the antenna of juvenile lobsters waving from holes in the tunnel above and out from under the rocks below and cowry shells clinging to the ceiling of the tunnel. Then you pass out of the tunnel and see a shaft of daylight penetrates the interior of a cave. The roof of the cave has collapsed sending down a full sized tree. The skeletal trunk and main branches of the tree rest on top of the sand mound in the middle of the cave. You follow the light and surface inside a big underground cathedral. You pass over the sand dune and continue ahead and left to another passage that leads to a chamber with an air pocket above ocean level. Back through the tunnel into the open sea and you dive among beautiful corals with 20 to 30 meter visibility.
2) Barracuda lake, located on Coron Island, is a reverse thermal lake, the water temperature at surface, is 28 celcius (80 F). The temperature stays constant to approximately 16 meters at which point a very visible thermal cline of wiggly water separates the "cool" upper water from the 40 degree [104 F] water below. The deeper one penetrates, the hotter the water becomes. Normally, the hot water should rise, but in the case of Barracuda Lake, the lower water contains considerable limestone salts, which create heat. The scenery in the lake is spectacular, both above water and below surface. And, if you are lucky, you should see one of the giant barracudas that make their home in the lake. One of the most beautiful and strangest dives you will ever make.
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