Seadoors Itinerary

Visayas Seascape

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
24
Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Required

Highlights

  • Circular itinerary taking in the very best of the Visayas
  • Encounter thresher sharks at Monad Shoal
  • Meet manta rays at Malapascua
  • Explore the coral gardens and cat sharks of Maripipi
  • Spot silhouettes of whitetip sharks in the caves of Gato Island
  • Chance to snorkel or dive with whale sharks
  • Macro specific night dives

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 anemones, whitetip sharks spectators, pygmy seahorses, harlequin shrimps and spider crabs.
Dive 4: MALAPASCUA Canyon with its 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: MALAPASCUA in season will give the opportunity to interact with the school of hammerhead sharks.
Dive 6: MALAPASCUA Unique cleaning station for thresher sharks, flights of mobula rays.
Dive 7: MALAPASCUA.

DAY 4:
Dive 8: BOHOL 80m deep wall and much more in the blue. At depth we'll be looking for sharks, and on the wall for extraordinary macro including frogfish, pygmy seahorse, ribbon eels etc.
Dive 9: 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 10: BOHOL Quite dive along the plateau looking for macro and turtles.

DAY 5:
Dive 11: BOHOL Deep wall with giant sea fans. We can find big pelagics here.
Dive 12:BOHOL Wall of colours. We'll be looking for frogfish and also Bargibanti pygmy seahorse.
Dive 13: BOHOL Drift dive on a plateau with a sardines ceiling hunted by fish.

DAY 6:
Dive 14: BOHOL 14km of wall. This part is covered by black corals. We can find seriola, green turtles, jacks, and sea snakes.
Dive 15:BOHOL In the wall there is a small cave.
Dive 16: 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 7:
Dive 17: CEBU Dive with whale sharks.
Dive 18: CEBU Drift dive with strong currents. We can find black-tip sharks and white-tip reef sharks along the reef.
Excursion: CEBU

DAY 8:
Dive 19: NEGROS A very colored dive with it's schools of fish animated by strong currents.
Dive 20: NEGROS taggering coral reef sloping down ending in a wall. We commonly see leaffish, ghost pipefish and frogfish. This site is also known for its quantity of green turtles.
Dive 21: NEGROS

DAY 9:
Dive 22: BOHOL Black Forest wall 45 m deep with sea fans,corals, barracudas, uncountable turtles, schools of jack fishes.
Dive 23: BOHOL wall, with magnificent lighting effects and both titan and Picasso triggerfish, huge jack fishes.
Dive 24: BOHOL Heaven for divers because of its nice corals and its large quantity of green 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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