Types of Diving
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Boracay Diving sites around Boracay are for both beginners and experienced divers, with over 20 Boracay Scuba Diving sites within a 30-minute boat ride of Boracay Island. Additionally, Boracay Diving safari Packages of one day to one week are available, 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 diving and instruction. All Boracay Diving 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 Diving shop can be found at the BASS website, with links to all the dive shops.
The many Scuba Diving sites around Boracay offer very good variety, from easy shallow diving walls to deep drop-offs and fast drift-dives. Numerous diving 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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