Palau dive area
Palau is the World's first 100% Ocean Shark Sanctuary and soon, the world's first 100% Marine Sanctuary.
The Republic of Palau is unrivaled as a diving destination. Situated between the Philippine Sea and northern Pacific Ocean. The striking limestone islands emerge from crystal clear azure waters and three ocean currents which converge in its waters, bring with them a dazzling array of marine life, affording even the most experienced diver and underwater photographer impressive diversity and exciting diving opportunities.
Palau presents divers with magical blue holes, captivating wartime wrecks, pristine coral reefs, mysterious caves and tunnels, more than 60 vertical drop-offs to explore, and an astounding assortment of coral, fish and rare sea creatures. You can dive the same site again and again and have entirely different experiences each time.
You can expect mostly wall and drift diving with visibility ranging from 30m (90ft) in excess of 60m (200ft), depending on existing conditions. You can explore spectacular walls along the barrier reef, including such favourites as Blue Corner, Ngemelis Drop-Off and many other sensational dive sites yet to be charted. Get ready to enjoy the thrill of drift diving with schooling sharks, the beauty of healthy hard and soft corals, the tranquility of Jellyfish Lake, historic WWII wrecks and the vibrant fish life. Palau is one of the few destinations where sharks and manta rays are almost guaranteed to be seen up close.
Philippines dive area
The Tubbataha reefs belong to the best dive sites in the Philippines. They are located in an exposed area of the Sulu Sea and can only be visited by liveaboard vessels during 4 months of the year (March to June) when the weather conditions are calm enough. The Tubbataha reefs feature an amazing variety of pelagics and such as manta and eagle rays, grey reef sharks, white and black tip reef sharks. Even more rarely sharks such as shovelnose, leopard and hammerhead sharks are often seen here.
Tubbataha consist of two extended atolls, which are separated by a seven-mile-wide sea channel. All reefs have steep walls that rise from great depths (up to 3000 ft). Most dives are organised as drift dives in the strong currents.
In July and August, Solitude One dives the waters of Malapascua and the Southern Visayas from Cebu.
