Dive Shop
Sea Explorers Alona Beach are located right on the beach at the Alona Vida Beach Resort. They offer several dive trips a day and in addition diving courses and equipment rental are available.
The shop uses two outrigger boats (22 metre/66 feet for a maximum of 12 divers and 15 metre/45 feet for maximum of 8 divers) and a small speedboat. The boats are equipped with emergency kit, DAN Oxygen System and mobile phone. The catamarans have a simple toilet. Sea Explorers Alona Beach offers various departures during the day and night dives as well every evening. Full-day tours to Cabilao Island (minimum four people) are also on offer.
The well equipped shop has 50 twelve litre aluminium bottles with INT and DIN connectors, 12 complete sets of hire equipment and two Bauer compressors. NITROX is also available. The Swiss manager Felix Sutter is a technical diving instructor and offers Tec Deep and TRIMIX courses along with rebreather courses.
Dive Operation
The dive sites are reached with the outrigger boats in 5 to 50 minutes. The trip to Cabilao Island lasts about 90 minutes. The dives are accompanied by European instructors and very knowledgeable local Philippine dive guides who are intimately familiar with the diving conditions.
Dive Sites
The diving is varied with beautiful coral gardens in shallow water. Main attraction, however, are the steep walls with caves, overhangs and crevices. You find beautiful underwater scenery with sea fans, soft corals and feather stars where many colorful nudibranchs, frog fish, snake eels, stone fish and sea snakes have a home. Highlights are the dive sites around Balicasag Island and Cabilao Island. The area can be dived all year round, with mostly good to very good visibility, and soft to medium currents. The health status of the coral is good to very good, no coral bleaching, and no dynamite fishing.
