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BORACAY DIVING
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There are dive sites around Boracay for both beginners and experienced divers, with over 20 Boracay Scuba Diving sites within a 30-minute boat ride of the Island. Additionally, dive safaris of one day to one week explore numerous more distant sites aboard comfortable, fully-equipped dive boats.
Almost 30 dive shops are on Boracay, most of them along White Beach.
The number of Boracay Diving shops insures keen competition, high quality equipment and generally very good scheduling of dives and instruction. All dive shops are member of the Boracay Association of Sport and Scuba Diving (BASS). BASS monitors the condition of dive equipment and carries out environmental work (e.g. coral reef protection). In emergencies BASS coordinates rescue operations by its members in cooperation with the Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary Rescue.
Detailed information about each Boracay Scuba Diving shop can be found at the BASS website, with links to all the diving shops:
The many diving sites around Boracay offer very good variety, from easy shallow walls to deep drop-offs and fast drift-dives. Numerous sites offer excellent opportunities for encounters with large fish and close views of soft and hard coral, sponges, nudibranches, sea stars and cucumbers.
Most of the Pacific fish species are resident around Boracay, including sharks as well as manta rays and turtles. Lobsters and seas snakes can be seen at some sites.
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Boracay Drift Diving
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Boracay Diving in the Channel (Tabon Strait, No.3) has strong tidal currents of considerable strength. There's also a shark cave where, if you are lucky, you will see White tip Reef Sharks.
Strong tidal currents flow through the Tabon Strait with great force, taking divers along a sandy bottom with patches of coral, canyons and crevices where smaller fish take refuge and bigger fish wait for the current to bring them food. There is an excellent drift-dive at 60 ft but it is important to have good buoyancy control.
Boracay Drift Diving on the south side, a deeper drift-dive follows a ridge at 115 ft where there are some caves that often contain resting Whitetip Reef Sharks, Other cracks and crevices shield groupers, batfish and sweetlips and there are stingrays and garden eels on the sand.
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