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Standard name: Open water referral

Featured dive course length: 1 day

Minimum Experience is requested:

Min. Experience: Beginner diver/Open water diver

Dive center: Turtle Bay Dive Center

Price: from 79 USD

Featured course start: Friday 9th August 2019 at 09:00

Standard name: Open water referral

Featured dive course length: 1 day

Minimum Experience is requested:

Min. Experience: Beginner diver/Open water diver

Dive center: Turtle Bay Dive Center

Price: from 79 USD

Featured course start: Friday 9th August 2019 at 09:00

Scuba Review

Featured course start: Friday 9th August 2019 at 09:00Date: 9th Aug 2019

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Dive course description

Update your knowledge and skills. For certified divers, who haven't dived for a long time.

Turtle Bay Dive Center

Dive Center Highlights

Turtle Bay Dive Resort operates an accredited 5-star PADI Dive Centre. Our dive resort is a haven for divers. We are located in front of the famous House Reef where divers/snorkelers can spot the green sea turtles! With just a boat ride away
Turtle Bay Dive Resort operates an accredited 5-star PADI Dive Centre. Our dive resort is a haven for divers. We are located in front of the famous House Reef where divers/snorkelers can spot the green sea turtles! With just a boat ride away
Turtle Bay Dive Resort operates an accredited 5-star PADI Dive Centre. Our dive resort is a haven for divers. We are located in front of the famous House Reef where divers/snorkelers can spot the green sea turtles! With just a boat ride awayTurtle Bay Dive Resort operates an accredited 5-star PADI Dive Centre. Our dive resort is a haven for divers. We are located in front of the famous House Reef where divers/snorkelers can spot the green sea turtles! With just a boat ride away

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Open Water Diver - 5D

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Open Water Diver - 5D

Price: from 384 USD

Standard name: Open water diver

Featured dive course length: 5 days / about 4 dives

Minimum Experience is requested:

Min. Experience: No previous education required

Minimum divers age: 15

Featured dive course description

Most popular entry-level Scuba certification course in the world. Your chance to discover the world of underwater adventure and fun. Either complete the classroom portion of the PADI Open Water Diver at our resort or choose to do the theoretical part of the course at your own pace, anytime, anywhere with PADI eLearning.

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Dive Center Description

Turtle Bay Dive Resort operates an accredited 5-star PADI Dive Centre. Our dive resort is a haven for divers. We are located in front of the famous House Reef where divers/snorkelers can spot the green sea turtles! With just a boat ride away, you can visit the schools of sardines in Panagsama, Pescador Island and the other dive sites. We offer a wide range of diving courses, from beginners to courses for diving professionals. Check which course fits you!

Languages spoken: English and Filipino

Facilities and services: Dive boat, Dive equipment shop, Equipped classroom, Gear storage lockers and On-site reef

Affiliation Membership: PADI

Free cancellation

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Equipment rental

Item	Day
Full dive equipment	16USD
Snorkel gear (mask and fins)	6USD
Fins	2USD
BCD	6USD
Regulator	9USD
Computer	10USD
Wetsuit	4USD
Full gear with computer	24USD
Supplement for 15 liter tank	2USD

Featured dive sites

Dive with the Whale Sharks

Beginner divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 1 - 10m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Big fish, Shark and Snorkeling

You can see up to 8 or more whale sharks including mature males, females and some juveniles. The fishermen split the whale sharks into two groups and feed them brine shrimp (their natural food) from small fishing boats.
The fishermen feed the whale sharks from 6:00am to 1:00pm and lead them in front of visitors who can be sure of getting a close-up encounter with several whale sharks. No operations on Good Friday.

Where You Will See Them:
You will find the whale shark experience just off-shore from a beach in the small fishing village on Tan-awan, Oslob in southern Cebu. This is 77km from Turtle Bay Dive Resort – the scenic drive along the west coast of Cebu takes 90 minutes.The whale sharks are in the area all the year round.

What is Being Done to Protect the Whale Sharks:
In January 2012, the local government of Oslob introduced Ordinance 091-S12, which provides measures for the protection and conservation of whale sharks. The local government staff or the Dive Center Group leader

Fish: Whale shark

Tongo Point

Beginner divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 3 - 30m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Shark, Snorkeling and Wall

The dive starts and ends with a deep wall going to endless depths. Watch your no decompression time. Small caves can be explored all along this dive so bring a dive torch to look inside the caves.

Fish: Big-eye trevally, Pygmy seahorse, Blue trevally, Common thresher

White Beach

Beginner divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 3 - 30m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Reef, Snorkeling and Wall

At the beginning you descend to 25m to a fish feeding area. Many Damselfish will welcome you for a piece of bread.

Fish: Red-toothed triggerfish, Clown anemonefish, Mandarinfish
Mamals: Loggerhead sea turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle, Green sea turtle

Dolphin House

Beginner divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 3 - 28m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Reef and Wall

Regardless of the name there are no dolphins in this site. The dive starts with a wall going to 25m where there is a sandy slope.

Fish: Big-eye trevally, Red lionfish, Randall‘s frogfish, Messmate pipefish
Mamals: Loggerhead sea turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle, Green sea turtle

Panagsama Beach

Beginner divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 10 - 40m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Night dive, Reef and Snorkeling

The dive starts with a steep slope going down to 40m where there is a wall. Stay at 15m and come slowly up to 10m; there are some caves along the wall. This a great dive site for night diving as entries and exits are straight from the beach.

Mamals: Loggerhead sea turtle

Marine Sanctuary

Experienced/advance divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 3 - 35m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Big fish, Reef and Wall

This dive site slopes from 5m to 18m and then drops to 45m. In this area you can see a forest of huge sea fans.

Fish: Great barracuda, Leaf scorpionfish, Harlequin ghost pipefish, Robust ghost-pipefish
Mamals: Hawksbill sea turtle

Pescador Island

Experienced/advance divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 5 - 40m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - moderate

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Big fish, Night dive and Wall

Pescador Island is mentioned as one dive spot but you can dive here at least four times; it’s a truly great dive site. The dives start mostly in the south where the boat is sheltered if there is an Amihan wind.

Fish: Big-eye trevally, Yellow-spotted scorpionfish, Papuan scorpionfish

Copton Point

Experienced/advance divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 3 - 50m

Visibility: 10 - 30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Reef and Wreck

The dive starts with a deep descent to 17m along the mooring buoy rope to the sandy slope with beautiful Staghorn corals. The airplane is approximately 7m down the slope at the wall’s edge at 20m depth.

Fish: Black-blotched porcupinefish, Black-spotted puffer

Tuble Reef

Beginner divers

Boat dive

Dive depth: 3 - 25m

Visibility: 30 - >30m

Current: none - slight

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Reef, Snorkeling and Wall

The dive starts with a wall going down to 25m. At the bottom is a sandy slope; very special are the vertical wall canyons. There is a small cave at 27-30m; with an in-going current watch out for this as it can be hazardous.

Fish: Mandarinfish

Talisay Wall

Beginner divers

Dive depth: 3 - 30m

Current: none - moderate

Water temperature: 26.8 - 29.8℃

Dive type: Reef, Snorkeling and Wall

The dive starts with a slope going to 13m; down there is a deep wall with a ledge at 35m. The wall has vertical canyons with wide deep slopes. The slope/wall profile keeps on changing all the time. Bring a diving torch to look in the small caves.

Fish: Great barracuda, Red lionfish