Diving on Malapascua has many views. Tresher shark there are one of the most famous in the world.

Diving are possible in the whole year, the best time is from November until May.
The temperature of the water for the whole year is between 25°C and 30°C.

The best spots are Pescador Island and Monad Shoal with the tresher sharks.

Dive Spots

SHARK POINT
A 20 minutes boatride takes you to the sunken island of Monad. The island has a diameter of 1,5km and starts in a depth of 12m and on every side there is a drop-off down to 45m. One of the dive spots there is called Shark Point because you can see there tresher sharks almost every morning. Somtimes there are also hammerheads and manta rays spotted.

LAPUS LAPUS
A boatride of 10 minutes takes you to this place in the North West of Malapascua. There is a nice rock formation down to 20m and there are also beautiful soft corals with small reef fishes and also forgfishes, lionfishes, scopionfishes and nudibranches. It is a good dive site also for beginners.

GATO ISLAND
The name of the island was derived from the Spanish term “Gato” meaning cat. This is because the island is shaped like a sitting cat. The island is a protected marine sanctuary. It has become famous as a breeding place for the "black & white banded" sea snakes and also for his sleeping sharks.

The island has spectacular caves and rock formations around the island. The steep walls and rocks are covered by beautifully coloured gorgonian sea fans. On the different dive spots around the island you can find really lots of nudibranchs as well as sea horses, shells, shrimps, sea snakes, scorpion fish, frogfish, big cuttlefish, stingrays, whitetip sharks, reef sharks, bamboo sharks, schools of squids, tuna and snappers. You could say that Gato has it all from seldom nudibranchs and seahorses to shark encounters on almost every dive. It is an underwater haven for macro photographers. Besides 3 underwater caves there is a tunnel system, which runs under the northern part of the island starting at 5 meters with a large exit at 14 meter. It contains all kinds of interesting sea life like lobsters, crabs and even sleeping whitetips. Only the more experienced divers can enter the tunnel and a torch is always needed (max depth 27 meters & average depth 16 meters).

LIGHTHOUSE
This spot is just at the beach of Malapascua and only a 5 minutes boatride away from the dive center. It's a good dive site for night dives. Seahorses, frogfishes, scorpionfishes, lionfishes and many more can be spotted.

DONA MARILYN
This is a big Manila/Cebu ferry that went down 1984 in a typhoon and is known as " The most beautiful wreck in the Visayas". The area is around 100-meter long ferry, lying on its portside and it can be entered safe in some areas. The wreck is partly overgrown with hard and beautiful colored soft corals. Scorpionfish, Lionfish and other tropical fish find already a place here. Big black spotted stingrays are usually around. The stern is bottoming at around 16 meters (max depth 35 meter).

JAPANESE CARGO WRECK
This is a heavily torpedoed World War II Cargo vessel broken into 3 major pieces and is resting in a depth between 20 to 30 meter with lots of wreck debris scattered all around. It is possible to see tiles on the wreck wall, steel cable, ladders and more, also lot of moray eels, scorpion fish, flatworms and occasional huge frogfish.