Diving

Dive sites in Siquijor

Dive Information: dive operators, liveaboards, dive safety, dive conditions
Underwater photos taken in Bohol, Negros, Cebu.
Print version of this page (mostly dive sites)

Siquijor is a small island belonging to the Visayas. There are quite a lot of dive sites around the island. Diving here is not so difficult except for some sites in the south who have currents sometimes.

Map of Siquijor dive sites and resorts (print version)

A map of Siquijor dive sites

Dive sites in Siquijor

Paliton: Flat reef top (4 to 6m), with nice hard corals and ribbon eels, then a wall.

Sanctuary: This marine sanctuary has very nice hard and soft corals but not so many fish.

Lala-o Sunken island: 10 min boat ride west of Coco Grove resort. An underwater island that slopes down from 10 to 40m. Schools of fish, sometimes manta, sea snakes and turtles.

Shipwreck: Slope. The wreck of a Japanese landing craft lies at 25 to 35 meter. It is covered with corals and many lionfish live here. Moray eels and frogfish can be discovered.

Salagdoong: a gradual slope from large semi-submerged rocks, that gets steeper around 20m. It has good coral cover with a variety of cabbage, pipe, staghorn and other hard corals, lots of tunicates, soft corals, crinoids, some blue spotted rays, morays and turtles.

Candapino Point: coral gardens from 7 to 18m with sandy patches. Sometimes a large school of batfish, jacks, rainbow runners, sweetlips and lots of anthias.

Tambisan: is a nice dive with schools of smaller fish, some large gorgonians clinging to the wall, colonies of green tubastrea, black corals and hundreds of invertebrates. There are also several small cavelets and crevices populated by sweepers and soldier fish. The reef top, above 10m, is home to lots of anemones.

Tongo Point: The reef top has fields of leather corals, slowly drops and is covered with masses of soft corals with lots of colorful fire hydroids. Further down are crevices and overhangs populated by surgeon fish, Moorish idols and a profusion of tiny reef fishes.

You can find detailed information about dive operators, liveaboard operators, dive safety, dive conditions, climate, hotels and how to get to Siquijor (and other islands in the Visayas) on a separate page ready to print.

I added some more information about Negros, Siquijor and Cebu in 1999 and again in 2000 after my fifth trip to this area.

Map of the Visayas

Map of the Visayas

1. Malapascua / 2. Pescador island / 3. Sumilon island / 4. Sibulan / 5. Dauin / 6. Apo / 7. Sipalay / 8. Cabilao / 9. Panglao (Alona) / 10. Anda / 11. Padre Burgos / 12. Limasawa / 13. Liolan, Sogot Bay / 14. Siquijor

More information about diving in Southeast Asia

Description of dive sites

Asia: Burma / Thailand
Indonesia: Bali (east, north, south) / Nusa Tenggara (Lombok, Komodo, Flores, Alor) / Sulawesi (Bunaken, Manado, Bangka, Tukangbesi islands, Makassar and Selayar, Lembeh strait, Siau and Sangihe islands, Palu, Togian and Banggai islands / Gorontalo) / Kalimantan / Moluccas (Ambon, Banda, Halmahera)
Malaysia: East coast (Perhentians, Redang) / Overview Borneo / Sabah and Sarawak / Lankayan / Mabul and Sipadan
Philippines: Visayas (Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Leyte, Siquijor) / Sangat and Palawan (Tubbataha Reef)

Special topics

Wallacea - Dive safety in South East Asia - judge the currents
Coral reefs - The ocean - Major endangered reef regions (biodiversity hotspots) - Conservation of our marine ecosystems

Photos
Bali - Bohol - Borneo - Burma and Thailand - Cebu - Lembeh - Leyte - Malaysia (east coast) - Manado and Siau islands - Leyte - Negros - Nusa Tenggara (Komodo, Flores) - Sangat - Sulawesi (Central- and South-Sulawesi) - Tubbataha
Fact sheets

Bali - Borneo and Kalimantan - Burma and Thailand - Malaysia (east coast) - Manado, Lembeh and Siau islands - Nusa Tenggara (Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores, Alor) - Moluccas (Ambon, Banda, Halmahera) - Palawan (Sangat, Tubbataha) - Sulawesi - Sulawesi central - Visayas (Bohol, Cebu, Negros, Siquijor)

Print version reports
Alor - Bali east - Bali north - Bali south - Bangka - Bohol - Borneo overview - Bunaken - Burma - Cebu - Flores - Gorontalo - Kalimantan - Komodo - Lankayan - Lembeh - Leyte - Lombok - Malaysia (east coast) - Manado - Moluccas - Negros - Palawan - Sabah and Sarawak - Sangat - Siau - Sipadan-Mabul - Siquijor - Sulawesi central - Sulawesi south - Sulawesi southeast - Togian and Banggai islands - Wallacea
Print version maps

Alor - Ambon - Apo - Bali - Bohol - Borneo - Burma - Gorontalo - Kalimantan - Komodo - Lankayan - Lembeh - Leyte - Lombok - Malaysia (east coast) - Manado - Palawan (Tubbataha) - Sangat - Siau - Sipadan-Mabul - Siquijor - Sulawesi south - Togians
Map of Wallace Line and Indonesian Throughflow - Indonesia climate (rainy season, dry season)

The Daymaniyat Islands (Oman)

Information

Dive sites around the Daymaniyat Islands, Kharabah, Fahal in Oman (maps, descriptions) - print version

Photos

Oman

The Galapagos islands (Ecuador)

Information

Galapagos islands: center Galapagos, north Galapagos, southeast Galapagos, west Galapagos
Fact sheet of the Galapagos Archipelago
Galapagos photos
Map of dive areas in the Galapagos islands (also in color)
Marine animals of the Galápagos / Endemic fishes in the Galapagos

Photos

Galapagos

German - Deutsch

Tauchplätze

Indonesien allgemein - Bali - Bali Nord - Bali Ost - Bali Süd - Bunaken - Bangka - Manado- Lembeh

Informations-Seiten

Bali - Bunaken, Manado, Lembeh, Siau

Druckversion Karten

Indonesien (Strömungen und Wallace Linie) - Klima-Karte Indonesien - Bali Tauchplätze - Lembeh Tauchplätze - Bunaken und Manado Tauchplätze - Karte der Tauchplätze in den Galapagos - Druckversion

Druckversion Texte

Indonesien allgemein - Bali Nord - Bali Ost - Bali Süd - Bunaken - Bangka - Manado - Lembeh

Spezielle Themen Grundsätze zur Berichterstattung über Tauchgebiete

I have visited all dive sites on this page except Sipalay, Sogot Bay and Anda. I added some more information in 2003 after my seventh trip to this area.

. Copyright Teresa Zubi (write to me)