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Location:
Just off Bagalangit Point, 250ft right from EAGLE POINT RESORT.
Access:
Dive directly off EAGLE POINT pier.
Conditions:
Generally calm but can have some strong currents that make photography
difficult. Visibility can reach 25m(80ft). The site is best dived at neap
tide.
Average depth:
19m (62ft)
Maximum depth:
30m (100ft) plus
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This
is a Marine Park Sanctuary and probably the best known Philippine dive
site. Originally quite barren, it has been seeded with coral from elsewhere
and is now, due to incessant fish-feeding, teeming with fish. From the
pier of EAGLE POINT and 20ft down, you can vigorously swim to this spot
in about 6-10 minutes depending on the direction of the current. Then you
swim down a little more and out across sand with small coral heads, soon
to be met by hordes of fish hoping to be fed. The site itself resembles
a roofless cavern consisting of two large sea mounts, between which is
a small cross planted at 15m(50ft) by the current Philippine President,
Fidel Ramos, in 1983. The site drops away in small steps, but becomes less
interesting below 24m (78ft). When the current is running there are colorful
feather stars and inflated soft corals everywhere. Lots of colorful sponges
and nudibranchs, hydroids, sea squirts, Feather Duster Worms and algae
coal the rocks in between stony corals with Christmas-tree Worms in the
corals.
The fish that pester you to be fed include all the smaller angelfish,
butterflyfish, wrasse, triggerfish, Moorish Idols, surgeonfish, damselfish
and putterfish. There are lots of parrotfish and hawkfish, some blue linckcia
sea stars, sea cucumbers, small barrel sponges and anemones with clownfish. |
