Seadoors Itinerary
Mer de Sulu (CEB - PPS) 11N12 days / 11 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
Highlights
- One-way route exploring the dice sites between Cebu and Tubbataha
- Discover the sharks, dolphins and rays of Cabilao Island
- Visit the marine sanctuary of Balicasag in Bohol
- Dive with the whale sharks of Oslob
- Explore Sumilon Marine Sanctuary, known for its nudibranchs
- Chance to snorkel or dive with whale sharks
- Visit Apo Island and encounter its many sea turtles
- See the deep walls and passing pelagics of the Cagayancillo Islands
- Log dives in a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Witness the world’s highest population density of coral and sharks
- Dive remote atolls only accessible for a limited time each year
- Search for sharks in the undercut drop-offs of Jessie Beazley Reef
- Dive the coral covered Malayan Wreck
- Explore the Delsan, Black and T wrecks on the South Atoll
The boarding is 13:00 to 17:00 at Cebu Yacht Club, from the airport or from your hotel in Cebu City a guide will drive you to the boat, embarkation, briefing, and presentation of your cabin.
Day 2:
Dive 1: Bohol - Very deep wall (+80m), we'll be looking for school of jacks, school of barracudas, or else whitetip reef sharks and hammerheads during season.
Dive 2: Bohol - 80m deep wall and much more in the blue. At our bottom, we'll be looking for sharks and on the wall for extraordinary macro as frogfishes, pygmy seahorse, ribbon eels, etc.
Dive 3: Bohol - Quite dive along the plateau looking for macro and turtles.
Day 3:
Dive 4: Cebu - Dive with whale sharks.
Dive 5: Cebu - Quite dive along the wall looking for macro.
Dive 6: Cebu - Drift dive with strong currents. We can find blacktip sharks and whitetip reef sharks along the reef.
Dive 7: Negros.
Day 4:
Dive 8: Negros - A very colored dive with it's schools of fish animated by strong currents.
Dive 9: Negros - Drift dive with strong currents where are schools of jacks.
Dive 10: Negros - Taggering coral reef sloping down ending in a wall. Commonly sight leave fish, ghost pipe fish and frogfishes. This site is also know for it's quantity of green turtles.
Dive 11: Negros - Car wreck.
Day 5:
Dive 12: Cagayancillo Islands - It is a strait wall with an overhand in the wall done by sea erosion, totally covered by giant sea fans. We can spot barracudas hunting, as well as sharks and school of jack fish.
Dive 13: Cagayancillo Islands - Clear water, untouched corals. We'll be looking for hammerhead sharks in the deep water.
Dive 14: Cagayancillo Islands - Very deep wall with it's schools of jack fish.
Day 6:
Dive 15: 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 16: Tubbataha - Drift dive on a wall covered by sea fans, we often see hammerhead sharks. Grey sharks 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 17: Tubbataha - Extraordinary night dive on Malayan Wreck with humphead parrotfish, marble ray and pygmy seahorse as well.
Day 7:
Dive 18: Tubbataha - Extraordinary ambiance on this plateau covered by acropora tables.
Dive 19: Tubbataha - This corner covered by soft corals is hit by strong currents which are appreciated by grey reef sharks and schools of juvenile sharks.
Dive 20: Tubbataha - Deep wall (65m) covered by giant sea fans where we can find groups of Denise's pygmy seahorse.
Day 8:
Dive 21: Tubbataha - The biggest cleanning 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, whitetip reef sharks. The most lucky divers will see whale sharks or even the guitar shark.
Dive 22: Tubbataha - It's a deep wall covered by sea fans on hundreds meters. We'll be looking for pygmy seahorse.
Dive 23: Tubbataha - Deep wall (65m) covered by giant sea fans where we can find groups of Denise's pygmy seahorse.
Dive 24: 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.
Day 9:
Dive 25: 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 26: 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 27: 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 10:
Dive 28: Tubbataha - 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 29: Tubbataha - Strait wall with strong currents, we can observe whale sharks passing but as well manta rays, grey reef sharks, hammerheads. The dive ends on the manta cleaning station.
Dive 30: 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 31: Tubbataha - A wall of soft corals and sea fans where sweetlips and snappers are hiding from reef sharks.
Day 11:
Dive 32: Bohol - Very deep wall (+80m), we'll be looking for school of jacks, school of barracudas or else whitetip reef sharks and hammerheads during season.
Dive 33: Bohol - 80m deep wall and much more in the blue. At our bottom, we'll be looking for sharks and on the wall for extraordinary macro as frogfishes, pygmy seahorse, ribbon eels, etc.
Dive 34: Bohol - Quite dive along the plateau looking for macro and turtles.
Dive 35: Tubbataha
Dive 36: 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 acropolis. The current is there sometimes strong and attracts the big pélagiques and the whale sharks to eat plankton.
Dive 37: Tubbataha - A special wall covered by soft corals and barrel sponges. We'll meet reef sharks and school of juvenile sharks as well.
Day 12:
Return to Port of Puerto Princesa, the disembarkation is from 08:00 to 11:00, we will drive you to the airport or to your hotel in Puerto Princesa.
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
Cebu Yacht Club
Mactan International Airport: CEB
Return
11:00am
Puerto Princesa
Puerto Princesa International Airport: PPS
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2027
Mer de Sulu (CEB - PPS) 11N
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