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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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Boracay Diving at Laurel Island 1 (No.1) one swims through a hole in Boracay Island at 5 meters and down to 18 meters, while Laurel Island 2 (No. 2) is a wall at 10 to 25 meters. Both of these Boracay Diving sites have excellent hard and soft corals. Friday's Rock (No. 5) offers fun scuba diving with many fish. Inshore of Fridays Rock is a nice coral garden (15-minute ride). On the nearby sandy bottom are Garden eels, different species of starfish, sea cucumbers and more. Crocodile Island (No.12) is another good site for and easy dive, with soft corals and large variety of reef fish.
Fridays Boracay offers its guest a on-site Boracay Diving Shop, here at WOW Philippines Travel Agency we can Book in advance your Boracay Vacation Package with a special Boracay Diving Package, all at big discounts.
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