Dive Shop
The PADI 5 Star CDC dive shop offers several dive trips per day including. equipment rentals, dive courses and diving instructor courses (May and November). Diving is done by three outrigger boats A 24 m (80 ft) for 14 divers, a 18 m (60 ft) boat for a maximum of 10 divers and a small speedboat. One or two-week long dive safaris can be booked around the islands of the Visayas for a minimum of 6 divers.
All boats are equipped with emergency kit, DAN Oxygen System and cell phone. The catamarans have a simple toilet. You can choose among various daily dive trips and night dives. Just next to the dive shop there is a house reef with large coral and fish diversity, ideal for photography and night dives. The dive shop stocks 110 twelve litre aluminium tanks with DIN + INT connections, complete hire equipment for 20 divers, three Bauer compressors and a Nitrox filling station. The dive centre is located at Pura Vida Resort next to pool and bar.
Dive Operation
The dive sites can be reached by outrigger boat within 5 to 90 minutes. Full-day trips to Apo Island and Sumilon Islands are also available. The dives are accompanied by European and local instructors as well as knowledgeable local Philippine dive guides who are intimately familiar with the diving conditions.
Dive Sites
Highlights are the dive sites around Apo Island with intact coral formations that offer varied diving in shallow coral gardens and beautifully vegetated cliffs. Interesting underwater landscapes with sea fans, soft corals and feather stars provide a home for many colourful nudibranchs, moray eels, frogfish, anemone fish and sea snakes. Spotted mackerel and other schooling fish can be seen all around Apo. Another protected dive site which offers an abundance of fish is Masoplod. The house reef is a paradise for macro fans. It has some artificial reefs and muck diving sites in the volcanic sand along the coast. Several fire fish, seahorses, ghost pipefish and rare cephalopods are regularly found here.
The largely intact underwater world around Negros attract not only underwater photographers. The dive sites are accessible all year around, and good to excellent visibility with generally low to medium currents can be expected.
