Wall
down to 25 m
Alona House Reef
Wall right off Alona Beach with many vertical cuts, anemones and multicoloured corals, and sea snakes over the sandy patches.
- Open Water
- Ghost pipefish
Advanced≤30 m
Arco Point
Dive site in Bohol & Panglao, Philippines
Panglao wall with a cave teeming with cardinalfish and home to white-eyed moray eels; most interesting between 10 and 15 m.
- Usual dive
- 15 m
- Deepest point
- 27 m
- Level
- Advanced
- Best months
- Jan–May
- Current
- Strong
The dive
A wall and drift dive.
Who it's for
Advanced≤30 mSource: divesitedirectory.co.uk
Recommended minimum: Advanced (PADI Advanced Open Water, N2).
- CurrentCurrent can be strong; you need good air management and buoyancy.
- OverheadPart of the dive is under a ceiling, without a direct way up.
- Strong current: dive with a local guide and carry a surface marker buoy.
Conditions
- Dive type
- Wall, Drift, Cavern
- Environment
- Cavern (daylight visible)
- Water
- Sea water
What you might see
- Moray eels
Season in Bohol & Panglao
- J
- F
- M
- A
- M
- J
- J
- A
- S
- O
- N
- D
- Best
- Good
- Possible
- Closed
- Not documented yet
Best months: Jan–May.
Source: dive-the-world.comWhere is Bohol & Panglao?
The point shows the Bohol & Panglao area, not the exact dive site.
More dives in Bohol & Panglao
Drift
down to 45 m
Black Forest
A drift over sloping reef to black coral at depth, with turtles on the reef and schools of jacks and triggerfish in the blue.
- Advanced
- Turtles
Cavern
down to 45 m
Cathedral
A fissured wall where you can enter a chamber lit by shafts of light from above.
- Advanced
- Barracuda
Wreck
down to 34 m
Habagat Wreck
A purposely sunk pontoon off south-west Panglao, encrusted with soft corals and visited by schools of snapper, batfish and sweetlips.
- Advanced
- Frogfish
Macro
down to 32 m
Kalipayan
An easy shore dive on Panglao's south coast with frequent seahorses and flamboyant cuttlefish, excellent for night and macro dives.
- Open Water
- Cuttlefish
Wall
down to 40 m
Napaling
A steep coral wall close to shore with an almost guaranteed, year-round swirling sardine ball; best in the calm morning light.
- Open Water
- Turtles
About this page
Values marked “Estimated” come from our original catalogue and are being checked against published sources one by one. Sourced values link to where they come from. Conditions change with the season, the weather and the tide: confirm with a local dive centre before you dive.