Seadoors Itinerary
Mer de Sulu (PPS - CEB) 10N11 days / 10 nights
About Seadoors
- Outstanding facilities for divers, plus support for tec, sidemount, and underwater photography
- Relaxed, social atmosphere ideal for adventurous and outgoing guests
- Spacious and comfortable cabins and common areas equipped with all the comforts of home
- Incredible itineraries exploring the best diving and lasting seven to ten stunning days at sea
Seadoors liveaboard is a comfortable and spacious modern safari vessel, cruising the Philippines’ most exciting diving destinations out of Cebu. This liveaboard offers friendly and social voyages, hosting 16 guests in absolute comfort for seven to ten incredible days at sea. Choose from a variety of exciting itineraries exploring all of this region's highlights for enthusiasts of coral reefs, muck diving, and sharks. Plus, stellar amenities for divers with high-quality rental equipment, nitrox, tec and rebreather support, facilities for personal gear and camera rigs, and an energetic and highly-trained international team.
Itinerary details
Length of trip 11 days / 10 nights
Number of dives 26
Experience Advanced Open Water - Minimum 30 dives
Insurance Required
Highlights
- One-way route exploring the dice sites between Tubbataha and Cebu
- Log dives in a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Dive the coral covered Malayan Wreck
- See the deep walls and passing pelagics of the Cagayancillo Islands
- Visit Apo Island and encounter its many sea turtles
- Explore Sumilon Marine Sanctuary, known for its nudibranchs
- Chance to snorkel or dive with whale sharks
- Visit the marine sanctuary of Balicasag in Bohol
- Discover the sharks, dolphins and rays of Cabilao Island
- Witness the world’s highest population density of coral and sharks
Day 1:
The boarding is 13:00 to 17:00 at Port of Puerto Princesa, from the airport or from your hotel in Puerto Princesa a guide will drive you to the boat, embarkation, briefing, and presentation of your cabin.
Day 2:
Dive 1: Tubbataha - Check dive on a very healthy reef with stairs of giant coral tables. It will be our first interaction with sharks and other reef fish.
Dive 2: Tubbataha - Drift dive on a wall covered by sea fans, we often see hammerhead shark. Grey reef shark and whitetip sharks are always in the area. The very nice reef gives refuge to nurse shark. We end the dive on the wreck with humphead parrotfish. The spot of Wall Street is on a sharp corner in powerful current appreciated by the grey sharks and schools of juvenile sharks. Night dive on Malayan Wreck with the humphead parrotfish and the turtles.
Dive 3: Tubbataha - Extraordinary night dive on Malayan Wreck with humphead parrotfish, marble ray, and pygmy seahorse as well.
Day 3:
Dive 4: Tubbataha - To dive to enjoy the huge manta ray cleaning station. This is a long drift dive (hundreds meters) where we can be surprised by anything as big pelagic, tiger sharks, hammerheads grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, and blacktip sharks.
Dive 5: Tubbataha - Strait wall with strong currents, we can observe whale shark passing but as well manta rays, grey reef sharks, and hammerheads. The dive ends on the manta cleaning station.
Dive 6: Tubbataha - A drifting scuba dive above a shinning white sand plateau in contrast with Japanese gardens, the sun lightning the corals give an extraordinary dimension to this dive.
Dive 7: Tubbataha.
Day 4:
Dive 8: Tubbataha - In the blue we'll find school of hammerheads coming from the deep, the dive ends on a magnificent plateau darken by school of jacks.
Dive 9: Tubbataha - Special dive site with a large crack on the reef. This is a hunting place for all type of predators. We can be surprised by any of the big predators as tiger sharks or hammerheads. The dive continue drifting on a magnificent plateau of corals.
Dive 10: Tubbataha - To dive to enjoy the huge manta ray cleaning station. This is a long drift dive (hundreds meters) where we can be surprised by anything as big pelagic, tiger sharks, hammerheads grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, and blacktip sharks.
Day 5:
Dive 11: Tubbataha - The biggest cleaning station in Tubbataha reefs is a perfect dive site for the divers. It's a drift dive on an healthy plateau where any sighting can happen as silky sharks, schools of grey reef sharks, and whitetip reef sharks. The most lucky divers will see whale sharks or even the guitar shark.
Dive 12: Tubbataha - It's a deep wall covered by sea fans on hundreds meters. We'll be looking for pygmy seahorse.
Dive 13: Tubbataha - North East corner of the North Atoll where currents are meeting. This drift dive allow the most lucky divers to see the whale sharks and to pass through schools of jack fish or barracudas.
Dive 14: Tubbataha - Extraordinary ambiance on this plateau covered by acropora tables.
Day 6:
Dive 15: Tubbataha.
Dive 16: Tubbataha - It is an outside reef in the north west of the atolls. An outstanding atmosphere for a dive with extreme feelings. Hammerhead sharks, silky sharks and grey sharks are frequent. The coral garden, very protected makes gigantic stairs of acropora. The current is there sometimes strong and attracts the big pelagic and the whale sharks to eat plankton.
Dive 17: Tubbataha - A special wall covered by soft corals and barrel sponges. We'll meet reef sharks and school of juvenile sharks as well.
Day 7:
Dive 18: Cagayancillo Islands - Untouched reef.
Dive 19: Cagayancillo Islands - Deep wall with colored corals. We'll be in the blue waiting for pelagic sharks.
Dive 20: Cagayancillo Islands - Untouched reef.
Day 8:
Dive 21: Cagayancillo Islands - Clear water, untouched corals, we'll be looking for hammerhead sharks in the deep water.
Dive 22: Cagayancillo Islands - 60m deep wall with humphead parrotfish passing overhead.
Day 9:
Dive 23: Negros - A very colored dive with it's schools of fish animated by strong currents.
Dive 24: Negros - Drift dive with strong currents where are schools of jacks.
Dive 25: Negros - Taggering coral reef sloping down ending in a wall. Commonly sight leave fish, ghost pipefish, and frogfishes. This site is also know for it's quantity of green turtles.
Dive 26: Negros - Car wreck.
Day 10:
Dive 27: Cebu - Dive with whale sharks.
Dive 28: Cebu - Quite dive along the wall looking for macro.
Dive 29: Cebu - Drift dive with strong currents. We can find black tip sharks and white tip reef sharks along the reef together with school of jacks and school of barracudas.
Day 11:
Return to Cebu Yacht Club, the disembarkation is from 08:00 to 11:00, we will drive you to the airport or to your hotel in Cebu City
The boarding is 13:00 to 17:00 at Port of Puerto Princesa, from the airport or from your hotel in Puerto Princesa a guide will drive you to the boat, embarkation, briefing, and presentation of your cabin.
Day 2:
Dive 1: Tubbataha - Check dive on a very healthy reef with stairs of giant coral tables. It will be our first interaction with sharks and other reef fish.
Dive 2: Tubbataha - Drift dive on a wall covered by sea fans, we often see hammerhead shark. Grey reef shark and whitetip sharks are always in the area. The very nice reef gives refuge to nurse shark. We end the dive on the wreck with humphead parrotfish. The spot of Wall Street is on a sharp corner in powerful current appreciated by the grey sharks and schools of juvenile sharks. Night dive on Malayan Wreck with the humphead parrotfish and the turtles.
Dive 3: Tubbataha - Extraordinary night dive on Malayan Wreck with humphead parrotfish, marble ray, and pygmy seahorse as well.
Day 3:
Dive 4: Tubbataha - To dive to enjoy the huge manta ray cleaning station. This is a long drift dive (hundreds meters) where we can be surprised by anything as big pelagic, tiger sharks, hammerheads grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, and blacktip sharks.
Dive 5: Tubbataha - Strait wall with strong currents, we can observe whale shark passing but as well manta rays, grey reef sharks, and hammerheads. The dive ends on the manta cleaning station.
Dive 6: Tubbataha - A drifting scuba dive above a shinning white sand plateau in contrast with Japanese gardens, the sun lightning the corals give an extraordinary dimension to this dive.
Dive 7: Tubbataha.
Day 4:
Dive 8: Tubbataha - In the blue we'll find school of hammerheads coming from the deep, the dive ends on a magnificent plateau darken by school of jacks.
Dive 9: Tubbataha - Special dive site with a large crack on the reef. This is a hunting place for all type of predators. We can be surprised by any of the big predators as tiger sharks or hammerheads. The dive continue drifting on a magnificent plateau of corals.
Dive 10: Tubbataha - To dive to enjoy the huge manta ray cleaning station. This is a long drift dive (hundreds meters) where we can be surprised by anything as big pelagic, tiger sharks, hammerheads grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, and blacktip sharks.
Day 5:
Dive 11: Tubbataha - The biggest cleaning station in Tubbataha reefs is a perfect dive site for the divers. It's a drift dive on an healthy plateau where any sighting can happen as silky sharks, schools of grey reef sharks, and whitetip reef sharks. The most lucky divers will see whale sharks or even the guitar shark.
Dive 12: Tubbataha - It's a deep wall covered by sea fans on hundreds meters. We'll be looking for pygmy seahorse.
Dive 13: Tubbataha - North East corner of the North Atoll where currents are meeting. This drift dive allow the most lucky divers to see the whale sharks and to pass through schools of jack fish or barracudas.
Dive 14: Tubbataha - Extraordinary ambiance on this plateau covered by acropora tables.
Day 6:
Dive 15: Tubbataha.
Dive 16: Tubbataha - It is an outside reef in the north west of the atolls. An outstanding atmosphere for a dive with extreme feelings. Hammerhead sharks, silky sharks and grey sharks are frequent. The coral garden, very protected makes gigantic stairs of acropora. The current is there sometimes strong and attracts the big pelagic and the whale sharks to eat plankton.
Dive 17: Tubbataha - A special wall covered by soft corals and barrel sponges. We'll meet reef sharks and school of juvenile sharks as well.
Day 7:
Dive 18: Cagayancillo Islands - Untouched reef.
Dive 19: Cagayancillo Islands - Deep wall with colored corals. We'll be in the blue waiting for pelagic sharks.
Dive 20: Cagayancillo Islands - Untouched reef.
Day 8:
Dive 21: Cagayancillo Islands - Clear water, untouched corals, we'll be looking for hammerhead sharks in the deep water.
Dive 22: Cagayancillo Islands - 60m deep wall with humphead parrotfish passing overhead.
Day 9:
Dive 23: Negros - A very colored dive with it's schools of fish animated by strong currents.
Dive 24: Negros - Drift dive with strong currents where are schools of jacks.
Dive 25: Negros - Taggering coral reef sloping down ending in a wall. Commonly sight leave fish, ghost pipefish, and frogfishes. This site is also know for it's quantity of green turtles.
Dive 26: Negros - Car wreck.
Day 10:
Dive 27: Cebu - Dive with whale sharks.
Dive 28: Cebu - Quite dive along the wall looking for macro.
Dive 29: Cebu - Drift dive with strong currents. We can find black tip sharks and white tip reef sharks along the reef together with school of jacks and school of barracudas.
Day 11:
Return to Cebu Yacht Club, the disembarkation is from 08:00 to 11:00, we will drive you to the airport or to your hotel in Cebu City
Sample itineraries are for guidance only. Actual itineraries may differ slightly due to factors such as weather, wildlife, logistics, and local regulations.
Transfer details
Departure
05:00pm
Puerto Princesa
Puerto Princesa International Airport: PPS
Return
11:00am
Cebu Yacht Club
Mactan International Airport: CEB
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