The name of the Island was derived from the Spanish term “Gato” meaning cat. This is because the Island is shaped like a sitting cat. The Island is a protected marine sanctuary. It has become famous as a breeding place for the "black & white banded" sea snakes and also for his sleeping sharks. The Island has spectacular caves & rock formations, and steep walls and rocks are covered by beautifully coloured gorgonian sea fans. On the different dive spots around the Island you can find lots of nudibranchs as well as sea horses, shells, shrimps, sea snakes, scorpion fish, frogfish, big cuttlefish, stingrays, whitetip sharks, reef sharks, bamboo sharks, schools of squids, tuna and snappers.

This site is an underwater haven for macro photographers. Besides 3 underwater caves there is a tunnel system, which runs under the northern part of the Island starting at 15ft/5m with a large exit at 42ft/14m. It contains all kinds of interesting sea life like lobsters, crabs and even sleeping white tips. Only the more experienced divers can enter the tunnel and a torch is always needed

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 16m

This dive spot is big sunken Island rising up from the ocean floor. It has spectacular overhangs and walls, disappearing into the endless deep blue ocean.

Big schools of tuna, jacks and barracudas can be seen here. Sharks are common in this area and more occasionally even hammerheads. Visibility can reach up to 100ft/30m. But one of the real special events in this area is the close encounter with the breath-taking Thresher Sharks that circle in front of you.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 200m

This is a big Manila/Cebu ferry that went down 1984 in a typhoon and is known as "The most beautiful wreck in the Visayas". The area is around 300ft/100m long ferry, lying on its portside and it can be entered safe in some areas. The wreck is partly overgrown with hard and beautiful colored soft corals. Scorpionfish, Lionfish and other tropical fish find already a place here. Big black spotted stingrays are usually around. The stern is bottoming at around 48ft/16m

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 35m

This is a little rocky island between Malapascua and the north point of Cebu mainland. Along its gently sloping sides you can find coral heads and beautiful soft corals. There are many small reef fish and occasionally eagle.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18m

Located southwest of Tongo Point in the Tanon Strait, this is the best diving area of Cebu. Pescador Island is an open top funnel that bottoms out. It also has a wall that overhangs cracks and crevices with gorgonian sea fans, black coral, large barrel and tube sponges. The fish life includes just about everything: sweet lips, jacks, barracuda, Napoleon Wrasse, Moorish idols, parrotfish, White tip and Grey Reef Shark, lionfish, Zebra Lionfish, scorpion fish, stonefish, moray eels, sea snakes, Hammerhead sharks, Manta Rays and Spanish Dancer nudibranchs.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 50m

The Jessie Beazley Reef is situated about 20km North West of North Tubbataha. This small reef is only half a kilometre in diameter yet offers some striking diving. It is not protected as a Marine Park, so fishing is still allowed.

The reef slopes to between 7 and 12 metres finishing at a wall that drops off to over 50m. The shallows are covered with corals that support a huge and diverse population of reef fish. White tip and black tip reef sharks are common as are tuna, groupers, barracuda and mackerel. Hammerhead, mako and thresher sharks also occasionally venture into these waters.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 50m

The Bird Island is situated on the north face of the north atoll; the wall starts in 5 and 8 metres of water. Small manta rays, lagoon and eagle rays, together with flounders and turtles have all been seen around these parts. The wall has huge gorgonians, barrel sponges and soft corals. Black tip, white tip and grey reef sharks can normally be seen as well snappers, surgeonfish, groupers, Moorish idols and jacks. Large manta rays are common and pelagics are here all the time. The wall itself drops sharply to depths that are normally unreachable. Currents are changeable and can sometimes be fierce, so it's not a good idea to dive in bad conditions.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

The whole stretch of this face is excellent for diving. Currents can be changeable and violent, so exploration is not always possible. The best time to dive here is at dusk when the fish are feeding.

The dive starts from 15-25m along a sandy bottom covered with corals and descends to greater depths for the advanced diver. Almost every type of native reef fish can be found here, the list is endless, but includes damselfish, angelfish, lionfish and scorpion fish. Sea cucumbers, nudibranches and crinoids are everywhere.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 70m

This site is found on the south side of the north Island. It starts on a gentle slope that is covered in corals and ends with a wall covered in gorgonian fans and whip corals. Here divers will come across a wide variety of large fish, including mackerel, snapper and large groupers. You're also certain to see white tip and gray reef sharks that inhabit these waters in large numbers. Other fish that can be seen include Moorish idols, angelfish, surgeonfish and fusiliers.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 70m

The sites around this face are normally calm, but currents can become violent and diving is not advisable during these times. There is a gentle incline from 10 to 20 metres to begin, leading to a steep drop-off that is excellent for sport divers. The area is particularly renowned for Green and Hawksbill turtles that are commonly seen swimming around the edge of the reef or resting. There are plenty of schools of reef fish and larger pelagics including mackerel and barracuda can be seen. White tip reef sharks, together with manta and eagle rays occasionally come into these waters.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 70m

Leaning down gently to 24m, the reef ends at a wall that stretches north for 12km. The reef is undulating and home to a wide variety of angelfish, groupers, parrotfish and butterfly fish.

Lying partly submerged and right on the edge of the drop-off is the Delsan wreck. The wall is vertical and Moorish idols, surgeons and triggerfish are among the many different types of schooling that can be seen here.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 70m

The area around here is also known as The Lighthouse due the location of one right on the southern tip.

Diving here is very similar to the north face of the southern Islaned, but there is a larger area of shallow reef top. Heredivers will have the opportunity to see small reef fish, corals, sponges and anemones. Also common are blue-spotted lagoon rays, sea cucumbers and sea stars. Close to the lighthouse itself, turtles are common as they are attracted by the sea grass that grows there.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 70m

Here divers can see the remains of a Malayian ship that stranded here from the mooring place. The current on the corners can be strong and therefore lots of fish will hang around there. Here you will have the opportunity to see large groups of dogtooth tuna and even an eagle ray, moray eels, angelfishes, butterfly fishes and other smaller reef fish as well as some lobsters, starfish and flatworms.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

The Black Rock is located north east of the south island. The vertical wall is not covered with much corals. Here divers will have the opportunity to see some sharks patrolling, mostly white tip reef sharks, Napoleon wrasses and manta ray on the reef top.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth:

The Panagsama Beach has a depth of 3 to 40 meters and visibility of 15 to 25 meters. This is an excellent dive site for beginners and for the divers who love small things. You start the dive at 15 meters and slowly ascent to 10 meters. The chances of seeing a school of sardines being chased by tuna fish is high. There is always a chance that a whale shark will pass by.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 40m

Apo Island offers a number of sites. The whole Northeast side of Apo Reef consists of drop-offs and overhangs where white tip reef and grey reef sharks, turtles, barracuda and shoals of snapper can be found. The reef is covered with table corals, stag horn corals, porites corals, fire corals and a variety of soft corals. The remainder of Apo Reef have steep walls with strong currents that attract pelagic such as hammerhead sharks and manta rays.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 30m

Cabilao Island is located to the south west of Pangangan Island in the Bohol Strait and has a great diversity of dive sites that suit divers of different skills and expertise. More than 800 species of underwater life such as corals, shells of different sizes, sea snakes, barracudas, large groupers, napoleon wrasses and snappers inhabit the dive sites. Also it is home to hammerhead sharks in deeper waters more suited for the experienced diver.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 100m

The Pamilacan dive site is a slope dive and not very good for snorkelling because it is too deep with sandy parts in the shallow side. The reef slopes are rich with coral heads, soft corals and even coral strings. Fishes that can be sighted here are the delicate sea whip, schools of napoleon wrasse, barracudas, batfish and an occasional manta ray.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 35m

Tonga Point has a maximum diving depth of around 35 meters and is suitable for all divers. The average visibility is between 10 to 20 meters and access to the dive site is by boat. Here you will have the opportunity to see dome prolific fish and corals in excellent condition.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 35m

Laying in of water, this wreckage attracts schools of snappers & sweetlips, as well as eagle rays and plenty of sharks. White tips, black tips and grey reef sharks can all be seen feeding here. Turtles are common visitors and there are plenty of molluscs and crustaceans to entertain macro lovers around the wreckage and along the wall. During our trips we often dive here twice as the marine life is simply fantastic.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

The reef slopes then drops into the abyss, not for the feint hearted, Washing machine is known for its strong and sometimes unpredictable currents, however with them come the sharks and manta rays. Grey reef and white tips are amongst the common sightings and the occasional hammerhead is know to cruise by and the mantas make diving in currents look easy and graceful! Expect also to see large Napoleon wrasse, pickhandle barracuda, jacks and dogtooth tuna.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

The dark sand slope leads down to two sunken volkswagens- covered with corals and sponges and home to schooling lionfish. The cars are just one feature of the site however, as over the slope we also find microscopic frogfish, skeleton shrimps, cockatoo waspfish, pipe horses, seahorses and mimic and blue-ring octopus, flying gurnards, spiny devilfish, robust and ornate ghost pipefish gathered together in groups (sometimes 5-7 at a one time!) and flambouyant cuttlefish. A true macro critter playground.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Typically with stronger currents than most dives during the trip, Diver’s Heaven is a character site of Balicasag with a steep reef wall, many overhangs with soft corals, sponges & sea fans. Schools of jacks and chevron barracuda are frequently seen, along with pyramid butterfly fish and bannerfish. Warty frogfish, leaf fish and porcelain crabs are just a few of the smaller creatures that can be found at this dive site.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Once famed for its black coral is where we encounter schools of jacks, meanwhile leaf fish are often seen resting on the rough coral ledges. Turtles are a common sight in the shallow sea grass garden- a perfect place for your safety stop.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

This is where octopus, crocodile fish and other tropic fish and crustaceans can be seen. A superb spot day or night.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Another critter wonderland! Painted frogfish, varieties of ghost pipefish, cockatoo waspfish are just a few of the most commonly seen species and on occasion we see up to 4 flambouyant cuttlefish in one dive!! During night dives coconut octopus can be seen creeping about with their shells and bobtail squid quickly scurry under the sand.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

An often fast paced drift brings divers over the sloping coral reef wall. Giant trevally, humphead parrotfish and marbled groupers are seen off the reef along with schools of banner fish. Turtles cruise effortlessly in the currents and nembrotha nudibranchs can be seen munching on tunicates.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

Rock Point offers some of the most stunning hard corals to be found in the region. The steep reef walls support numerous colourful reef species – pyramid butterfly fish and red-toothed trigger fish are here in their hundreds, frogfish, cuttlefish, banded sea snakes and hawksbill turtles are amongst the common sightings.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 18

This site starts with a gentle slope where you can observe different fish species including the Frogfish, Ghost Pipefish, Crabs and Shrimps, and then continues with a gorgeous coral reef that houses marine creatures such as Barracudas, Hued Anthias, Damsel fish and Snappers. At this site, there are also the Hairy Squat Lobsters that are known to live on barrel sponges, and the Yellowtail Barracuda that impressively creates a tunnel around you as you dive. The common residents include the Hawksbill Turtles and the Green Turtles. On rare occasions you are able to see the Blue-Ringed Octopus and the Leaf Scorpionfish that hides between the Lettuce Corals.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 24

Due to the fact that there are almost no currents here, you will be able to experience a relaxing dive while observing a wide variety of fish including the Giant Groupers, Ribbon Eels, Crinoid Aquat Lobsters and Green Turtles. Right at the base of this breathtaking reef, you will be able to observe a few species of Razor Wrasse, Garden Eels, Nudibranchs and on rare occasions the Giant Barracuda and the amazing Dogtooth Tuna.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 20

The wall is completely covered with beautiful hard- and soft coral. This reef offers a diversity of species, like scorpion fish, tunas, jackfish, barracudas, frogfish, nudibranchs of all kinds and seahorses.

• Dive Type: Boat Dive
• Diver Level: Open Water Diver
• Max Depth: 40m