Dive Sites
Explore Siquijor’s Top Dive Spots
1. Tambisan Coral Garden
2. Tambisan Wall
3. Paliton Wall
Depth: 5 – 45 Meter
Level: Open Water
Paliton wall is the name of our famous wall dive north east corner of Siquijor Island. A cool dive site where you can see the top and bottom when the visibility is clear – cathedral cave can be seen under 32 meters depth. A big wall covered in beautiful soft/hard corals, holes, which hide a variety of marine life including various moray eels, mantis shrimp, nudibranches, lionfish, catfish and sea snakes, bump head parrotfish and turtles can be seen too. ISIBILITY: 10-25 meters (+/-)
TYPE: CLIFF-SLOPE DIVE
CURRENT: Gentle to Moderate
DIFFICULTY: OPEN WATER+
4. Paliton Sanctuary
Depth: 8 – 22 Meter
Level: Open Water
A gentle sandy slope that leads to a very colourful corals and then a curve wall with loads of small fishes. It is a great place to see lionfish, scorpion fish, stonefish, sea snakes, lobsters, many nudibranches, garden eels, moray eels, ribbon eels, turtles, napoleon wrasse, parrotfish, spadefish, midnight snappers, sweetlips, barracuda, and many more fishes.
DEPTH: 15-35 Meters
VISIBILITY: 10-35 meters (+/-)
5. Solangon
6. House of Reef
7. Poblacion
8. Maite Sanctuary
Depth: 5 -25 M
Level: Open water
Maite is the name of the barangay of the coast of this dive site. That’s why we call it maite sanctuary. While it’s possible to do a shore entry on this dive site, most people use a boat. You’ll come across many gobies, pipefish, file fish, puffer fish, nudibranches, turtles, moray eels, shrimp, scorpion fish and a lot more macro stuff. Big mountains of corals, soft and hard. On the sandy area you can see flounders. The site also has a healthy population of mandarin fish, making it perhaps the most popular night dive site on Siquijor. Dive
CURRENT: Gentle to Moderate
DIFFICULTY: OPEN WATER+
RATING: C
9. Baha Reef
10. Coral Garden
Depth: 5 – 15 meter
Level: Open water
A shallow slope with stunning healthy coral garden. For us this is the best dive site here in Siquijor Island. Big and small fishes, almost all kids of anemone you can see here. Plenty puffer and trumpet fish. Nudibranches and flatworms, frog fish, octopus, pipe fish, ghost pipefish, scorpion fish, moray eels are a few you should keep your eyes open for.
11. Diosa
Depth: 5 – 25 meter
Level: Open water
Starts with a small drop off and then goes over in a slope. Big variety of coral with often turtles and many little fish.
12. Tubod Point
13. Tubod Sanctuary
Depth: 5 – 20 meter
Level: Open water
Tubod sanctuary has many fishes, nudibranches, sea snakes and cuttlefish and ghost pipefish. Turtles often can be seen here as well as it have a big variation of corals.
14. Sawang
15. Tag-ibo / Pitogo
16. Light House - Cangmunag
17. Balogo
Tambisan Coral Garden
Tambisan Wall
Paliton Wall
Paliton Sanctuary
Solangan
House of Reef
Poblacion
Maite Sanctuary
Baha Reef
Coral Garden
Diaosa
Caticugan Sanctuary
Rainbow Bay
Pier 2
18. Bagacay
19. Sawang - Bagacay
20. Lower Cabangcalan
Depth: 5 – 45 Meter
Level: Open Water
Paliton wall is the name of our famous wall dive north east corner of Siquijor Island. A cool dive site where you can see the top and bottom when the visibility is clear – cathedral cave can be seen under 32 meters depth. A big wall covered in beautiful soft/hard corals, holes, which hide a variety of marine life including various moray eels, mantis shrimp, nudibranches, lionfish, catfish and sea snakes, bump head parrotfish and turtles can be seen too. ISIBILITY: 10-25 meters (+/-)
TYPE: CLIFF-SLOPE DIVE
CURRENT: Gentle to Moderate
DIFFICULTY: OPEN WATER+
21. Dapdap Sanctuary
Depth: 8 – 22 Meter
Level: Open Water
A gentle sandy slope that leads to a very colourful corals and then a curve wall with loads of small fishes. It is a great place to see lionfish, scorpion fish, stonefish, sea snakes, lobsters, many nudibranches, garden eels, moray eels, ribbon eels, turtles, napoleon wrasse, parrotfish, spadefish, midnight snappers, sweetlips, barracuda, and many more fishes.
DEPTH: 15-35 Meters
VISIBILITY: 10-35 meters (+/-)
22. Lazi Beach Club
23. Talayong Fishport
24. Dapdap
25. Pier 2
Depth: 5 -25 M
Level: Open water
Maite is the name of the barangay of the coast of this dive site. That’s why we call it maite sanctuary. While it’s possible to do a shore entry on this dive site, most people use a boat. You’ll come across many gobies, pipefish, file fish, puffer fish, nudibranches, turtles, moray eels, shrimp, scorpion fish and a lot more macro stuff. Big mountains of corals, soft and hard. On the sandy area you can see flounders. The site also has a healthy population of mandarin fish, making it perhaps the most popular night dive site on Siquijor. Dive
CURRENT: Gentle to Moderate
DIFFICULTY: OPEN WATER+
RATING: C
26. Calalinan
27. Rainbo Bay
Depth: 5 – 15 meter
Level: Open water
A shallow slope with stunning healthy coral garden. For us this is the best dive site here in Siquijor Island. Big and small fishes, almost all kids of anemone you can see here. Plenty puffer and trumpet fish. Nudibranches and flatworms, frog fish, octopus, pipe fish, ghost pipefish, scorpion fish, moray eels are a few you should keep your eyes open for.
28. Dumanhog Wall
Depth: 5 – 25 meter
Level: Open water
Starts with a small drop off and then goes over in a slope. Big variety of coral with often turtles and many little fish.
29. Dumanhog
30. Caticugan Sanctuary
31. Caticugan
32. Tinago
33. Tinago Turtle Point
34. Tongo Point
