Seadoors Itinerary

Visayas Odyssey

10 days / 9 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

10 days / 9 nights
22
Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Required

Highlights

  • Circular itinerary offering the best of the Visayas in one trip
  • Meet Malapascua's famous thresher sharks at Monad Shoal
  • Explore an underwater freshwater river
  • Encounter with the gentle whale sharks of Leyte
  • Watch mating mandarinfish, dance in Anda Bay
  • Search for the endangered tarsiers of Chocolate Hills
  • Discover Apo Island and its many sea turtles
  • Chance to snorkel or dive with whale sharks

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: 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 3:
Dive 4: SOUTHERN LEYTE deep wall, wonderful coral garden, huge sea fans, and hale sharks in season.
Dive 5: SOUTHERN LEYTE Old local fishermen are looking for whale sharks for us. We'll be snorkelling with whale sharks for 2 hours.
Dive 6: SOUTHERN LEYTE Untouched coral garden with its frogfish, ghost pipefish and pygmy seahorses.

DAY 4:
Dive 7: 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 8: 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 9: SOUTHERN LEYTE.

DAY 5:
Dive 10: BOHOL 14km of wall. This part is covered by black corals. We can find seriola, green turtles, jacks, and sea snakes.
Dive 11: BOHOL In the wall there is a small cave. At the end of the cave, there is a surprising treasure.
Dive 12: BOHOL Quite dive in the middle of black corals, looking for frogfish. The end of the dive is on the wonderfull plateau at 6m.

DAY 6:
Dive 13: BOHOL Deep wall with giant sea fans. We can find big pelagics here.
Dive 14: BOHOL Drift dive on a plateau with a sardines ceiling hunted by fish.
EXCURSION: BOHOL
EXCURSION: BOHOL

DAY 7:
Dive 15: NEGROS A very colored dive with it's schools of fish animated by strong currents.
Dive 16: NEGROS taggering coral reef sloping down ending in a wall. Common encounters include leaffish, ghost pipefish and frogfish. This site is also known for its quantity of green turtles.
Dive 17: NEGROS is a huge hard coral garden, healthy, untouched, somthing very rare on earth today. The coral formations are perfect. We can spot mandarin fishes and a lot of turtles.

DAY 8:
Dive 18: CEBU Dive with whale sharks.
Dive 19: BOHOL Black Forest wall 45 m deep with sea fans, corals, barracudas, uncountable turtles, schools of jack fish.
Dive 20: BOHOL is a huge hard coral garden, healthy and untouched. The coral formations are perfect. We can spot mandarin fishes and a lot of turtles.

DAY 9:
Dive 21: 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 22: BOHOL Quite dive along the plateau looking for macro and turtles.

DAY 10:
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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