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Diving Moalboal on Cebu
Our Dive Centre
 Walk from the dive centre straight into the water for a relaxing dive on our fabulous house reef by day or night. On your return you can rinse your gear and take a shower. Afterwards retire to the lounge to talk about what you saw and to look it up at one of the many marine lifes books. We have a well equipped classroom for all the courses we offer, but prefer teaching on one of our terraces.
Dive schedule
Every evening we plan a variety of dives for the next day and write them up on the board. There are usually three boat dives and a nightdive. The dive sites are relative close by (maximum 20 minutes by boat) so we often come back to the dive centre between dives unless we're doing a double tank dive. For double tank dives we leave at 9am so that we can be underwater by at 9:30. After that we go to a beautiful white sandy beach to have our break. Around 11:30 we do the second dive so that we're back at the resort in time for lunch.
Transport
We have two traditional banka dive boats to take us to the dive sites, including Pescador Island. They were built locally especially for us here at Magic Island.
Safety plan
Safety is important at Magic Island Dive Resort. As well as the standard rules for safe diving we also have our own safety plan. As well as the usual first aid kit, we also have oxygen and, in case the unexpected should happen, there is a decompression chamber available at the VASCOM Hospital in Cebu.
Cottages
At the moment we have ten spacious cottages for two persons. Five of the cottages are big enough for an extra bed if it's needed. All of the cottages have everything you need for a relaxed holiday including air-conditioning, a fan and a hot shower. Every one has a private veranda with seating and either a sea or swimming pool view.
Our spacious restaurant offers a great variety of traditional Philippine cuisine and also European dishes like a delicious pasta or a refreshing salad. There's a lounge area complete with a library of marine life books. In our bar we serve Philippine San Miguel beer, wine and fabulous cocktails and, off course, fresh fruit shakes.
Three cottages and a spacious sunbathing terras surround our swimming pool. It's a great place to cool down and a very safe, relaxed environment for your first diving course. There's an extra deep part especially designed for the lessons.
The terrace has a great view of the sea, Pescador and Bandian Islands and the hills of Cebu, you can enjoy a well deserved rest on our terrace. Relax in the sun or in the shade with a native chocolate milk or a mango shake. On special occasions the terrace miraculously change (it’s magic!) into a lovely open air restaurant. Internetcafé: Check your e-mails, safe your pictures, make a holiday diary, upload your weblog, . . . It's all possible! Especially for our guests we have installed a computer with internet connection, DVD/CD writer, USB connections, card reader and a printer.
Moalboal dive sites
The diving at Moalboal is extremely varied. There are slopes and walls, small caves and canyons and non of the coral reefs are affected by dynamite fishing. We have a huge variety of marine life, from very small nudibranchs to very big whale sharks. For XS to XXL!
Night dive
We have several great spots for a unforgettable night dive; our own house riff, Pescador Island or Discovery Point. At 6:30pm you can meet decorator crabs, shrimps, nudibranchs, moray eels, snake eels, cuttlefish, octopus, frogfish and much more. If you don't do a night dive in the Philippines, you're really missing something!
Twilight dive
During twilight the marine life is very different. At Talisay the mandarin fish appear to perform their fascinating courtship display.
1. Magic point, our house reef!
Depth: 5 till 55 metres, visibility 15 till 25 metres. Our fantastic house reef (a drop off) is just in front of our dive centre and there's lots to see. Schools of jacks and tuna hunting on a prestige reef covered with hard, soft and fan corals. We also have our frogfish, a black, yellow and grey one. There are always turtles around and even while snorkelling you're bound to see them. We've even seen a whale shark and several white tip reef sharks on our house reef. During a night dive you can see decorator crabs, cuttlefish, nudibranchs, snake eels, sea snakes and many more.
2. Discovery point
Depth: 5 till 30 metres, visibility 10 till 25 metres. This is a spot for macro lovers!
3. Goby Point
Depth: 5 to 10 metres. Visibility 10 to 15 meters. Big rocks on a sandy bottom with masses of small life like boxer shrimps, signal gobbies, nudibranchs, pegasus and much more.
4. Tongo point
Depth: 5 till 55 metres, visibility 15 till 25 metres. This is everything a diver wants! A drop off covered with hard and soft corals, fan corals, small caves, occasional turtles and masses of small creatures like nudibranchs, leaf fish, harlequin ghost pipe fish etc. But don’t be surprised if you see barracudas, jacks or a whale shark.
5. Talisay Wall
Depth: 5 till 55 metres, visibility 15 till 30 metres. A variable dive with a slope and wall. There a several caves to be found and explored. Lots of black coral, bat fish, barracuda, mandarin fish and sometimes a turtle. Because of the combination of slope and wall, this is also a great place for a night dive. Want to join us?!
6. Talisay point
Depth: 5 till 55 metres, visibility 15 till 30 metres. A beautiful slope, full of hard corals mixed with soft and leather corals. You can find bat fish, crocodile needle fish, turtles, sea snakes, frogfish, anemones with shrimps and clownfish to name but a few. In the evenings mandarin fish will come out in search for food.
7. Panagsama beach
Depth: 3 till 40 metres, visibility 15 till 25 metres. An excellent dive for beginners and for the divers who love small things. You start the dive at 15 metres and slowly ascent to 10 metres. The chances of seeing a school of sardines being chased by tuna fish is high. There is always a chance that a whale shark will pass by.
8. Kasai Point
Depth: 5 till 35 metres, visibility 15 till 35 metres. During this dive you will find several canyons and caves, large schools of razor fish, a turtle, leaf fish, black coral and this is also on the path of the whale sharks. If you're really lucky you'll see eagle rays.
9. Kasai Wall
Depth: 5 till 40 metres, visibility 15 till 40 metres. A varied dive along a wall where you will find several caves and canyons. In the deep you can see snappers and sweetlips, in the caves or on the wall frogfish, moray eels, sea snakes and in the blue schools of big mouth mackerels and sardines. And of course the small life is also there.
10. Tuble Reef
Depth: 2 till 35 metres, visibility 15 till 35 metres. Lots of caves and a forest of sea fan corals make this dive a special experience. You may also sea schools of razor fish, big parrot fish, turtles and large schools of tuna and jacks.
11. Dolphin House
Depth: 5 till 45 metres, visibility 15 till 30 metres. A gentle slope to 20 metres covered with corals then a drop off to 45 metres. Between 17 and 22 metres there are a lot of caves and in one of them there is usually a sleeping turtle. At 26 metres there are some big fan corals. They're difficult to find, but here you can find pigmy sea hors.
12. White Beach south
Depth: 4 till 35 metres, visibility 15 till 30 metres. Because of the slope this is also a great place for snorkelling. The wall is covered with hundreds off soft coral and there are also caves. This is a very good place to look for nudibranchs.
13. White beach north
Depth: 4 till 35 metres, visibility 15 till 30 metres. This slope is extremely colourful because of the great diversity of soft and hard corals and also all sorts of anemones, each with there own specific inhabitant. You can also meet potato groupers, snappers and turtles.
14. Fish feeding
Depth: 5 till 35 metres, visibility 15 till 30 metres. A simply fantastic slope full with corals. Between all these corals the turtles are sleeping, big fish are looking for a meal, shrimps and crabs are hiding in anemones and soft corals, and so on. Ghost pipe fish are seen here a lot. By the way: we do not feed the fish!
15. Copton Point deep
Depth: 18 till 55 metres, visibility 15 till 25 metres. This dive starts with an airplane wreck that has sunk in 1993 as a dive attraction. The slope changes at 23 metres into a beautifull wall covered with sea fans, sponges, soft coral and we find a lot of nudibranchs and shrimps.
16. Copton Point shallow
Depth: 4 till 18 metres, visibility 15 till 25 metres. There are many table corals here, soft corals en a huge variety of fish such as scorpion fish, sweetlips, puffer fish, titan trigger fish, turtles, nudibranchs, shrimps and again a lot more.
17. Sanctuary
Depth: 8 till 45 metres, visibility 10 till 25 metres. Deep or shallow, this is a great place to dive. Between 26 and 40 metres there is a fan coral forest, not just a few, no, really as far as you can see and enormous! There area also leaf fish, harlequin ghost pipe fish, napoleon fish, bump-head parrotfish, white tip shark to name but a few. In the coral garden all the small life is hiding between the hard and soft corals. Do not forget your camera, but you'll have a tough decision, your standard of the macro lens. Better plan: make more dives here!
Pescador
There are divers that call this one of the best dive spots of the Philippines so come and decide for yourself! You can make several dives before your have gone all the way around the island, but then you have not seen all.
18. Pescador Island Cathedral
Depth: 2 till 65 metres, visibility 20 till 40 metres. There is an unbelievable variety of corals, frog fish, schools of lion fish, barracudas, tuna and snappers, etc. There is a magnificent cave that has a heavenly view of the surface so it's easy to see why it's called the Cathedral. Occasionally you will meet sharks and at the north east side there is a plateau where you can find nudibranchs, shrimps and lots of other small marine life. The wall is covered with soft coral which offers a home to octopus, moray eels, snake-eels, nudibranchs and many more.
19. Pescador Island east
Depth: 2 till 65 metres, visibility 20 till 40 metres. The dive starts at a plateau that turns into a sloop which is covered with all kinds of hard and soft coral. If you take a good look, you'll find a lot of scorpion fish, razor fish, sweetlips, potato groupers, snappers, schools of tuna and barracuda. The dive ends on a plateau. Look carefully and you'll find a lot of small marine life here.
20. Pescador Island nightdive
Depth: 2 to 65 meters. Visibility: 5 to 15 meters. THis will be the most beautiful night dive you've ever made. Big crabs run around, cuttlefish, snake-eels and there are nudibranchs in all sizes. The corals are open and so very colorful but aware that the sharks might be watching you!
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