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Experience Scuba Diving In Boracay

Do you want to experience scuba diving in Boracay in an awe-inspiring manner? Boracay Island is a small lush tropical paradise engulf in long stretch fine white sand beaches and crystal clear blue water of the South China Sea.

It is a perfect haven for beach bums, holiday trekkers, newly wed couples, families, and trailblazing divers.

The world of scuba diving is very captivating and offers new experiences the underworld can offer with its vast marine wildlife and environment.

The island paradise of Boracay offers some of the finest scuba diving sites in the Philippines as well as in Asia. Its surrounding crystal clear blue water has long stretches of coral reef swarming with tropical marine life and habitats.

Scuba diving in Boracay opens several diving shops and resorts that provide diving lessons and diving packages to both local and foreign tourists. Dive shops and resorts provide modern diving gears and equipment. Professional dive masters are always on hand to tour and guide beginner-level divers as well as first-time divers in Boracay. Most dive shops and resorts offer dive packages from one day to a week of scuba diving under the supervision of a professional dive master.

Boracay has many excellent and amazing dive sites for snorkelers and scuba divers. These dive locations are sanctuaries to several multicolored fish like rainbow runners, Moorish idols, puffer fish, butterfly fish, angelfish, hawk fish, wrasses, and many others. Tubastrea cup corals, gorgonians, barrel sponges, Linchia starfish, and black corals ornament reefs and ridges.

The surrounding sea is a dwelling place for the predators of the underworld such as Grey Reef sharks, White-tipped sharks and Hammerhead sharks. Divers can go for a dip with manta rays, large eels, barracudas, snappers, sea snakes, and some pelagic fish.

Beginner divers and snorkelers can try Laurel Island for a swim or drifting in its "underwater tunnel". It is five meters wide and extends up to 18 meters. Another dive site in the island tagged as Laurel 2 has a wall sloping of 10 to 25 meters. Various marine creatures take refuge in these diving sites.

Friday's Rock is also ideal for snorkelers and beginner divers. The dive spot has an amazing coral garden covered with hard and soft corals, sponges, and home to different tropical fish. Crocodile Island on the southeast of Boracay offers a good dive site of shallow coral gardens, vertical wall and caverns full of multihued fish.

Yapak 1 and Yapak 2 provide wonderful and breathtaking reef walls covered with gorgonians, soft corals, sponges, and Linchia starfish. Seasoned and professional divers love this dive location due to its wide-range of fish and corals. Grey and White tip reef sharks are occasional dwellers on these diving sites. Yapak dive sites offer the famous "Chimney" oceanic structure for intermediate and expert divers. The 55-meter diving wall is an aquatic home to sponges, corals, starfish, and other marine animals. It is an ideal dive spot for intermediate and seasoned divers.

Comia II provides shipwreck diving for both local and foreign tourists. A steel-hulled fishing vessel that is owned by a Manila-Philippines fishing company The Comia II final found its resting place on the bottom of Boracay. The ship wreck offers another dimension in a divers' adventure under the sea.

Scuba diving in Boracay also include Bel-at Beach, Baling Hai beach, Punta Bunga, Friday's Rock, the Greenyard and Angol dive sites, Laguna de Boracay, Lobster Rock, and also some other dive locations.

Boracay is not only a perfect getaway to enjoy the stunning beauty of its white beaches, crystal clear water, and tropical hills, but also to enjoy the many services of modern hotels and restaurants. Scuba diving in Boracay has already come of age to promote the wealthy and untouched marine nature of the paradise island.

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