Seadoors Itinerary

Visayas Shark Special

7 days / 6 nights

About Seadoors

  • Outstanding facilities for divers, plus support for tec, sidemount, and underwater photography
  • Relaxed, social atmosphere ideal for adventurous and outgoing guests
  • Spacious and comfortable cabins and common areas equipped with all the comforts of home
  • Incredible itineraries exploring the best diving and lasting seven to ten stunning days at sea

Seadoors is a comfortable and spacious modern safari liveaboard, cruising the Philippines’ most exciting diving destinations out of Cebu. This liveaboard offers friendly and social voyages, hosting 16 guests in absolute comfort for seven to ten incredible days at sea. Choose from a variety of exciting itineraries exploring all of this region's highlights for enthusiasts of coral reefs, muck diving, and sharks. Plus, stellar amenities for divers with high-quality rental equipment, nitrox, tec and rebreather support, facilities for personal gear and camera rigs, and an energetic and highly-trained international team.

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Itinerary details

7 days / 6 nights
16
Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Required

Highlights

  • Circular trip focussing on shark encounters in the Visayas
  • See Malapascua's famous thresher sharks at Monad Shoal
  • Chance to dive or snorkel with whale sharks
  • Explore the coral gardens and spot cat sharks at Maripipi
  • Dive Maripipi’s Bull Shark Reef and Manta Point
  • Encounter blacktip and whitetip reef sharks at Sumilon

During this trip, we will explore the dive spots with the highest shark concentrations in the Visayas. The boat sails from Cebu at night, heading north to wake up on Malapascua. Here we will explore Monad Shoal, thresher sharks cleaning station. Then we sail to Maripipi and dive at Bull Shark Reef and Manta Point. Travelling to Bohol we stop near South Cebu to interact with whale sharks before searching for reef sharks at Sumilon Island.

DAY 1:
A guide will drive you from the airport or hotel to the boat. Board the vessel between 13:00-17:00 at Cebu Yacht Club. You will then be assigned a cabin and given a welcome/safety briefing.

DAY 2:
Dive 1: MALAPASCUA Unique cleaning station for thresher sharks, flights of mobula rays.
Dive 2: MALAPASCUA Dive where Manta are often passing by and as well thresher sharks.
Dive 3: MALAPASCUA, the tunnel passage which crosses the island covered with Yellow anemone, whitetip sharks spectators, pygmies seahorses, harlequin shrimps and spider crabs.
Dive 4: MALAPASCUA Canyon with it's white tip reef sharks and cat sharks. During night diving, this site is amazing with a large density of macro fauna such as Spanish dancers, saw blade shrimps, crabs, and many kinds of nudibranchs.

DAY 3:
Dive 5: MARIPIPI easy drifting scuba dive on a rocky bottom. There are massive fallen rocks and canyons dressed in soft corals, rich in barracudas and angel  fishes.
Dive 6: MARIPIPI magnificent high bottom, well preserved coral, abundant fauna white and blacktip Sharks.
Dive 7: MARIPIPI , mess of black coral with different fluorescent colours. The dive ends up into Canyons covered by giant sea fans.
: Canyon with its white tip reef sharks and cat sharks. During night dive, this site is amazing with a large density of macro fauna such as Spanish dancers, saw blade shrimps, crabs, and many kinds of nudibranchs.

DAY 4:
Dive 8: MALAPASCUA in season will give us the opportunity to interact with the school of hammerhead sharks..
Dive 9: MALAPASCUA Unique cleaning station for Thresher Sharks, flights of Mobula Rays,.
Dive 10: MALAPASCUA.

DAY 5:
Dive 11: BOHOL 80m deep wall and much more in the blue. At our bottom we'll be looking for sharks, and on the wall for extraordinary macro as frogfish, pygmy seahorse, ribbon eels etc.
Dive 12: BOHOL Very deep wall (+80m), we'll be looking for school of jacks, school of barracudas or else white tip reef sharks and hammerheads during the season.
Dive 13: BOHOL

DAY 6:
Dive 14: CEBU Dive with Whale sharks.
Dive 15: BOHOL Black Forest wall 45 m deep with sea fans,corals, barracudas, uncountable turtles, schools of jack fishes.
Dive 16: BOHOL Heaven for divers because of its nice corals and its large quantity of green turtles.

DAY 7:
Disembark at Cebu Yacht Club between 08:00-11:00, we will then drive you to the airport or to your hotel in Cebu City.

Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics and local regulations.

Transfer details

Departure

04:00pm

Cebu

Mactan-Cebu International Airport: CEB

Return

09:00am

Cebu

Mactan-Cebu International Airport: CEB

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