Seadoors Itinerary

Malapascua

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 itinerary focusing on the famous diving at Malapascua
  • Dive Monad Shoal, the iconic thresher shark cleaning station
  • Search for the hammerheads and mantas of Kimud Shoal 
  • See silhouettes of whitetip sharks in the caves of Gato Island
  • Dive the coral gardens of Maripipi
  • Spot pygmy seahorses amongst black coral at Panaon Island
  • Explore an underwater freshwater river
  • Macro specific night dives including the renowned Padre Burgos

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 its whitetip reef sharks and cat sharks. During night dive, this site is amazing with a large density of macro fauna as spanish dancers, saw blade shrimps, crabs, and many kind of nudibranchs

DAY 3:
Dive 5: MARIPIPI magnificent high bottom, well preserved coral, abundant fauna white and blacktip Sharks.
Dive 6: MARIPIPI , mess of black coral with different fluorescent colours. The dive ends up into Canyons covered by giant sea fans.
Dive 7: 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 fish. Chance of whitetip 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 Dive where Manta are often passing by and as well thresher sharks.
Dive 10: CAMOTES it is a straight wall with an overhand in the wall done by sea erosion, totally covered by giant sea fans. We can spot barracudas hunting, as well as schooling fish.

DAY 5:
Dive 11: SOUTHERN LEYTE deep wall , wonderful coral garden, huge sea fans, and whale sharks in the season.
Dive 12: SOUTHERN LEYTE Old local fishermen are looking for whale sharks for us. We'll be snorkelling with whale sharks for 2 hours.
Dive 13: SOUTHERN LEYTE Untouched coral garden with its frogfish, ghost pipefish and pygmy seahorses.

DAY 6:
Dive 14: SOUTHERN LEYTE one of the top ten dives in Visayas, as much by the diversity of the Flora and the fauna as by the density, black Coral, Seafans, pygmies seahorses, Exploration of a underwater river of fresh water which develops a particular ecosystem. Sometimes whale sharks in the south of the island.
Dive 15: SOUTHERN LEYTE This part of the wall is covered by black corals. The marco fauna is very surprising as xeno crabs, saw blade shrimps ... At the end of the dive we'll be looking for the white tip reef sharks sleeping in small caves.
Dive 16: SOUTHERN LEYTE.

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 Yacht Club

Mactan-Cebu International Airport: CEB

Return

09:00am

Cebu Yacht Club

Mactan-Cebu International Airport: CEB

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