Palawan Diving - Philippines

Palawan Diving Sites - Palawan

Busuanga & Coron Island Diving | El Nido Diving | Dimakya Island Diving
Lusong Island Diving | Tangat Island Diving

Palawan, the only Philippine island cited, it is rated by National Geographic Traveler magazine as the best island destination in East and Southeast Asia region in 2007, and the 13th best island in the world having incredibly beautiful natural seascapes and landscapes. One of the most biodiverse (terrestrial and marine) islands in the Philippines. The island has had a Biosphere Reserve status since early 1990s, showing local interest for conservation and sustainable development.


Palawan Popular Dive Sites

Palawan Diving Sites	Average Depth	Maximum Depth
Busuanga - Akitsushima Wreck	28 meters	38 meters
Barracuda Lake	4-8 meters	12 meters
Busuanga - Black Island Wreck	20 meters	32 meters
Brown Rocks	18 meters	25 meters
Delian Island - North & South	25 meters	80 meters
Dimakya Island
Dumunpalit Island	65 meters	80 meters
Tangat Island - East Tangat Wreck	33 meters	72 meters
Gunter's Cathedral	25 meters	44 meters
Tara Island	65 meters	100 meters
Framjee Bank	15 meters	40 meters
Lusong Island - Irako	35 meters	42 meters
Kalotoko Rocks	18 meters	28 meters
Pinnacle Rock	4.5 meters	6 meters
Lusong Island - Kogyo Maru	28 meters	34 meters
Kyokusan Maru	30 meters	43 meters
Tangat Island - Mamya Maru	25 meters	34 meters
Lusong Island - Gunboat	20 meters	33 meters
Lusong Island - Olympia Maru	19 meters	25 meters
Tangat Island - Taiei Maru (Concepcion Wreck)	16 meters	26 meters

Busuanga & Coron Island Diving | El Nido Diving | Dimakya Island Diving
Lusong Island Diving | Tangat Island Diving

How To Get To Palawan

Air Transportation
Philippine Air Lines, Air Philiphines and Sea Air, each serve one direct flight from Manila to Puerto Princesa City daily. Flying time is one hour by airbus. Asian Spirit flies to Sandoval, a few kilometers north of Palawan. Other airports are also in Busuanga and in El Nido. The Puerto Princesa Airport is one and half kilometers from the city proper and is accessible by tricycle.

Land Transportation
Tricycle is the city's main mode of public transportation. For long distance trips, public utility buses and jeepneys stationed at the bus and jeepney terminal along Malvar St. service commuters daily. For trips within and outside Puerto Princesa City, jeepneys and tricycles may be hired. Jeepney and buses leave the terminal for its destination as soon as they get a full passenger load.