My top 5 diving points in Anilao, Batangas.
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Just south of Manila, the province of Batangas has some of the best dive sites off the coast of Luzon. These include Fortune Island, sites near Matabungkay and the most famous Balayan Bay, home to the sleepy little town of Anilao, the birthplace of diving in the Philippines.
aleccaadarnaUpdated a year ago
In Cathedral Rock you will find soft corals, sponges, nudibranches, and many tropical fish, among them angelfish, butterfly fish, wrasse, surgeonfish and anemones with clownfish. The cross is situationed in between two rocks and was brought there by former president Fidel Ramos on 1983.
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This site starts out as a gradual slope from around 5M. Then you eventually go down to around 18-20M. Then you will see a small wall with some boulders and a small cave or more like a crack. Once in this area, the current can sometimes be really weird. Things to see in this area are sweetlips, emperor fish, surgeons and of course lots of clown fish.
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This dive site is home to pymea sea horses. Current is slight to moderate and has a sloped surface underneath with scattered rocks.
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The dive here can be one way or returns to the boat depends on the current that sometime slight to moderate normally moving to the south but switching direction sometimes. Visibility varies from 10m.-20m./33ft.-66ft. Underwater you will see a capsized barge and a two big rocks which is less than one meter apart that resembles its name twin rocks.
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One of the 2 popular muck diving sites in Anilao, Batangas. This site is a fairly easy dive with critters found mostly in the shallows.
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