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- Anilao : Anilao, in the south of the province Batangas, has been a muck and macro diving paradise since the early seventies.
- Batalan Rock : Batala Rock is a huge rock just below the surface dropping down to 18 meters and with excellent coral growth.
- Beatrice Rock : Several steep and huge boulders lay underwater at Beatrix Rock 1 and 2 offering excellent with coral enriched diving.
- Bonito Island : Bonito Island offers a nice sloping sandy reef full of colorful reef fish and critters.
- Cathedral Rock : The Cathedral is a very common and shallow trainee dive site where divemasters and instructors often feed the fish.
- Chicken Feather Island East : You can drift dive on a special sloping reef at the east side of Chicken Feather Island.
- Chicken Feather Island Hot Spring : The underwater hot spring at Chicken Feather Island is where you can experience small streams of hot water flowing out of volcanic cracks.
- Coala : Coala and Coala Aquarium are some of Anilao's best dive sites where drift diving along its rocky in hard coral covered slopes.
- Eagle Point : Eagle Point is a nice drift dive often starting in the Cathedral drifting along the beautiful slope.
- Layag-Layag : Layag Layag is one of the top diving spots in Anilao, rich and brilliant drift diving.
- Mainit Bay : Mainit Bay means hot bay and is named after several hot springs on shore.
- Mapating Rock : Mapating Rock is the most western huge rock of Tingloy Island with a nice deep cave and abundant marine life.
- Sepoc Wall : Sepoc Wall is one of the best wall dives near Anilao with often heavy currents and loads of aquatic life and coral.
- Donsol : The area of Donsol is known as one of the best spots to dive, swim and snorkel with many whale sharks.
- La Union : La Union, and Bauang Beach in particularly, was one of the first tourist destination of the Philippines.
- Subic Bay : Subic Bay is one of the wreck dive destinations worldwide with a very rich and interesting naval and battle history.
- Barges Grand Island : This floating dock named Barges Grand Island offers some ever changing marine life.
- El Capitan, USS Majaba : The dive wreck El Capitan, later renamed USS Majaba, was a US Auxiliary freighter today swarmed in fish.
- Japanese Patrol Boat : The Japanese Patrol Boat is a small coastal trawler probably used by the Japanese and sank in front of Subic Bay in the end of WWII.
- LCU, Landing Craft Utility : This Landing Craft Utility is an amphibious vehicle used for on and offloading cargo and passengers and dropping them at the beach.
- LST, Landing Ship Tank : LST or Landing Ship Tank used to be an amphibious vehicle used for transporting troops, tanks and cargo on shore.
- Oryoku Maru : The Oryoku Maru was one of the hell ships used for transporting POW to Japan to serve as workers.
- San Quentin : The steam gunboat San Quentin was scuttled by the Spanish just southeast of Grande Island.
- Seian Maru : Seian Maru is a large freighter located at only a few hundred meters from the waterfront.
- USS Lanikai : The USS Lanikai was a huge schooner that became famous because of the movie Hurricane starring Jon Hall and Dorothy Lamour.
- USS New York : The USS New York was scuttled to prevent her 8 inch guns to be captured.
- Apo Reef : Apo Reef is a world renowned atoll in the middle of the South China Sea offering steep walls and many pelagic.
- Apo 29 : Apo 29 is a secluded dive site where sharks are still extremely curious about those new big creatures in the water.
- Apo Island : Many different dive sites around Apo Island offer scuba divers a great time.
- Hunter's Rock : The area around Hunter's Rock is always popular by sea snakes especially between June and July when their mating season starts.
- Merope Rock : Merope Rock is a huge underwater mound with a great eastern wall.
- Shark Ridge : Diving Shark Ridge is famous for divers who want to see white, grey and blacktip reef sharks.
- Marinduque : Marinduque offers some of the best scuba diving at slightly remote, unspoiled and unexplored steep walls and coral reefs.
- Pandan Island : Pandan Island is a remote island and serves as a perfect start for scuba diving nearby Apo Reef.
- Anchor, Christmas Tree : Another nice dive site is Anchor and Christmas Tree with the common inhabitants and a nice fifty year old boat anchor.
- Barracuda Deep : Barracuda Deep is a deep wall dive full of action and excellent coral formations.
- Coral Gardens East and West : The Coral Garden East and West offer diving amongst excellent examples of hard and soft corals.
- House Reef : Diving the House Reef of Pandan Island ideal for novice divers.
- Napoleon Wall : At Napoleon Wall you will find pelagic action, a steep wall and often strong currents.
- Neptune's Land : Named after its many Neptune cups, Neptune's Land is a very nice dive site.
- North Wall : The drop-off at North Wall attracts pelagic such as tuna and mackerel.
- Puerto Gallera : Puerto Galera is becoming one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the Philippines.
- Alma Jane : The wreck of the Alma Jane is a cargo freighter scuttled right into Sabang Bay.
- Anton's Wreck, St Christopher : Anton's Wreck or the St Christopher is a relatively young live-aboard dive boat that sunk offshore Puerto Galera in 1995.
- Atoll : The Atoll is a huge rock often surrounded with reef sharks and stingrays.
- Batangas Channel : The Batangas Channel is a fast flowing kind of river in between Coco Beach and Medio Island.
- Boulders : Caves, caverns and swimmthroughs have formed at dive site The Boulders, literally a collection of huge rocks placed together.
- Canyons : The Canyons is one of the best dive sites in Puerto Galera with a lot of fish sheltered from the hefty currents.
- Coral Gardens : Coral Garden is a typical garden with many of the different kinds of hard and soft corals present.
- Deep La Laguna Reef : Deep La Laguna Reef is a set of deep reefs separated by a sand channel and rich in coral formations.
- Dry Dock : The artificial dive site named Dry Dock consists of a steel construction that was used to get small vessels on shore.
- Dungon Wall : A popular wall dive is Dungon Wall with all its coral reef fish and diversity.
- Ernie's Cave : There are two interesting mini caves to be found at Ernie's Cave, one at 22 and one at 27 meter.
- Fish Bowl : At dive site Fish Bowl you can literally see all species of fish that live in the waters of the Philippines.
- Hill : Many clams have been placed on top of a small underwater hill to encourage coral growth and to see how they would grow.
- Hole in the Wall : At Hole in the Wall you can actually find a small swimm-through through the reef right into some spectacular coral gardens.
- Horse Head Reef : The Horse Head Reef is named after a rock on shore resembling the head of a horse.
- Japanese Wreck : The propeller and engine are the only remains found while diving this simple Japanese Wreck.
- Joshua's Wall : Joshua's Wall is a small wall or huge ledge in waters deeper than 50 meters suitable for those diving on nitrox.
- Kilima Drift : Spotting schools of barracuda, mackerel, trevally and reef sharks is one of the best experiences whole drifting along Kilima Drift.
- La Laguna Point : The sheer La Laguna Point makes an excellent dive site with a splendid wall and plenty of fish.
- Mamood's Reef : Mamood's Reef is diving next to a nice reef wall with several small caverns and mini caves.
- Manilla Channel : The Manila Channel is a fast flowing narrow channel in between Medio Island and Paniquian Island.
- Marcus Cave : Marcus Cave is a nice and deep cave that needs nitrox diving and cave training to visit it porperly.
- Monkey Wreck : Monkey Beach and Wreck are some nice dive sites that offer a wreck, wall, currents, huge corals and loads of fish.
- North Point : One of the most northern points of diving in Puerto Galera is at the fantastic dive site North Point.
- Oddie's Dingding : Oddie's Dingding is diving with rare huge black coral trees, not seen in many other places around the Philippines.
- Pink Wall : Pink Wall is a shallow drop-odd with a lot of large cauliflower corals.
- Sabang Bay : Sabang Bay consists out of several dive sites, some wrecks, a deep reef and the landmark Sabang Point.
- Secret Reef : Secret Reef is a deep wall dive with excellent coral formations and many fish.
- Shark Cave : Whitetip reef sharks often hide and rest at the dive site Shark Cave where you can approach them real close.
- Sinandigan Wall, Turtle Rock : Sinandigan Wall is one of the best and richest habitats around Puerto Galera with nudibranch and turtles common.
- Small to Big La Laguna : Small to Big La Laguna is a top drift dive with some of the best underwater topologies in Puerto Galera.
- Steps : The Steps is a pretty reef that descent in steps each creating a nice mini wall.
- Sweetlip Corner : Overhangs, caverns and the large numbers of sweetlips make up the wall at Sweetlip Corner.
- West Escarceo : West Escarceo offers cold waters flowing from Verde Island and attracting huge marine fish.
- Wreck Point : Wreck Point is diving at the remains of a shallow freighter and the hulls of a catamaran.
- Talipanan Reef : Talipanan Reef is one of the few dive sites west of Puerto Galera near shore.
- Verde Island : Verde Island offers canyons, tall pinnacles and one of the richest underwater biodiversities in the world.
- Black Fish Pinnacle : Blackfish Pinnacle is scuba diving next to a wicked steep drop-off going down to 40 meters.
- Drop-off, Pinnacle : The Dropoff or Pinnacle are some excellent steep and deep walls on the southeast side of Verde Island.
- Washing Machine : This dive site is named the Washing Machine because it has canyons where you are spun from one side to another.
- Romblon :
- Agnay Sanctuary :
- Agpanabat Caves & Canyons :
- Agpanabat Sanctuary :
- Alad Sanctuary Garden, Slope : Alad Sanctuary Garden near Alad Island is a pretty dive site also for snorkelers.
- Alad South : Scuba diving at dive site Alad South near Alad Island.
- Bangug Island : Bangug Island
- Bonbon Beach :
- Channel of Alad :
- Coral Garden : Coral Garden East & West near Cobrador Island.
- Giant Clam Sanctuary :
- Logbon Coral Canyon : Logbon Coral Canyon
- Logbon Sanctuary :
- Naguso's Wall : Diving Naguso's Wall near Cobrador Island.
- Phil's Fan Coral Collection :
- Salvar Beach :
- San Pedro Cliff :
- San Pedro Sanctuary :
- Sasaigang Point : Dive site Sasaigang Point on the tip of Logbon Island.
- Sunken Island (CSI) : Cobrador Island
- Telsie's Garden :
- Turtles' Feeding Place :
- Sibuyan :
- Cresta de Gallo : Cresta de Gallo Island near Sibuyan.
- Tablas :
- Blue Hole : Blue Hole
- Bonbon Sea Grass Valley :
- Carmen's Cliff : Carmen's Cliff
- Guindauahan Island : North of Tablas at dive site Guindauahan Island.
- Origon Rocks : Origon Rocks
- Peter's Pinnacles : Diving at dive site Peter's Pinnacles near Tablas Island.
- Times Square : Dive site Times Square near Banton Island.
- Borocay : Borocay is a well known holiday destination for divers but that is not its only attraction.
- Apo Island :
- Dauin :
- Dauin Sanctuary :
- El Dorado Housereef :
- Ginama Point :
- Masaplod : Masaplod Sanctuary
- Badian Island : Badian Island, slightly south of Moalboal, offers excellent scuba and snorkel activities to Badian, Moalboal and Pescador Island.
- Mactan : Mactan Island is a well established scuba paradise just a few kilometers away from Cebu City.
- Malapascua : Malapascua is a relatively undeveloped diving island with some of the best underwater ecosystems in the world.
- Bantigi :
- Bugtong Bato : At Bugtong Bato you can find a sloping reef, mini wall and sandy bottom with macro marine life.
- Calanggaman Island : Calanggaman Island offers the whitest sand ever seen making fish and coral look extremely colorful underwater.
- Chocolate Island : Shallow coral diving and macro species is what diving Chocolate Island is all about.
- Dakit-Dakit : Dive site Dakit Dakit is diving with many fish and colorful corals.
- Dona Marilyn Wreck : The Dona Marilyn Wreck used to be a 90 meter long ferry which is easily accessible for advanced divers, technical and wreck enthusiasts.
- Gato Island : Gato Island, although small, offers stunning dive sites known for its sharks, seahorses, nudibranchs, cave or cathedral.
- House Reef : One of the muck dive sites in Malapascua is House Reef, easily reached and filled with colorful macro species.
- Ka Osting : Ka Osting is muck diving at its best with many interesting species.
- Kimud Shoal : Kimud Shoal is a great circular in hard and soft corals covered shoal known for its many hammerhead sharks.
- Lapus Lapus Island : Lapus Lapus Island is known for its healthy and colorful coral formations and inhabitants.
- Lighthouse, Lighthouse Wreck : Around the Lighthouse you can spot mating mandarin fish and explore the remains of a Japanese WWII landing craft.
- Monad Shoal, Shark Point : Monad Shoal also referred to as Shark Point is a seamount known for the many thresher sharks that arrive each dawn to be cleaned by wrasses.
- MV Asia Wreck : The MV Asia is diving on a relatively new, open and intact wreck.
- North Point : The northern point of Malapascua experiences strong currents offering excellent canyons and rock formations.
- Nunez Shoal : The wall at Nunez Shoal is deep and hosts many marine life and macro photographic objects.
- Pioneer Wreck : The Pioneer Wreck at starting at 42 meters deep is a fantastic dive for nitrox certified divers.
- Tapilon Wreck : Tapilon Wreck was a WWII Japanese cargo carrier nowadays separated in three loosely connected parts.
- Moalboal : Moalboal with Panagsama Beach and White Beach are brilliant destinations for excellent nearby wall scuba diving.
- Airplane Wreck : The Airplane Wreck is one of Moalboal's attractions; diving on a complete and intact airplane wreck.
- Blue Abyss Housereef :
- Copton Point :
- Dolphin House :
- Fish Feeding :
- Kasai Point, Kasai Wall :
- Looc :
- Ludo : Ludo
- Magic Point, Magic Wall : Magic Point is a great drop-off reef with plenty of marine species to admire.
- Moalboal Bay :
- Panagsama Beach, House Reef : The House Reef is one of the easiest and quickest ways of getting into the water spotting phenomenal underwater creatures.
- Ronda Bay and Ronda Marine Park : Ronda Bay and Ronda Marine Park
- Ronda Bay, Saavedra Fish Sanctuary :
- Sampaguita :
- Sanctuary : At dive site the Sanctuary you can find brilliant coral gardens, forests of sea fans and plenty of aquatic species.
- Talisay Point, Talisay Wall : Talisay Wall and Point is one of the best diving sites off Moalboal with vertical drop-offs and loads of marine life.
- Tongo Point :
- Tongo Sanctuary :
- Tuble Reef :
- White Beach :
- Pescador Island : Pescador Island is a nice and small marine sanctuary offshore Moalboal and Badian.
- Cathedral : Diving the Cathedral is diving inside a huge cathedral like cave, next to a steep wall and on top of beautiful corals.
- East :
- South :
- Sunken Island : Sunken Island is known for its many sharks and tune found at depths early in the morning.
- Balicasag Island : Balicasag Island is one of the most popular scuba daytrips from visitors of Alona Beach, Panglao Island.
- Cabilao Island : Cabilao Island is a great scuba diving island with some spectacular coral reefs just offshore.
- Balay Reef :
- Cambaquiz Point : The unexplored dive site Cambaquiz has a nice wall and many small mini caves and crevices.
- Chapel Point : Chapel Point is a nice and healthy part of reef with many species of hard corals and fish.
- Fallen Tree : Fallen Tree offers a nice drop-off, easily entered from shore with not spectacular coral formations.
- Gorgonia Wall : Gorgonia Wall is a steep drop-off with many gorgonians, small caves and overhangs to explore.
- Light House East : Lighthouse is one of the top muck diving sites in Cabilao with chances of spotting pipefish and nudibranchs.
- Shark View Point : Interested in diving with sharks, a dive to Shark View Point is highly recommended.
- South Point : South Point, at the south of Cabilao, offers strong currents and excellent hard coral formations.
- Pamilacan Island : Pamilacan Island is a popular drift island just to the south of Alona Beach, Panglao Island.
- Panglao Island : Panglao Island is a famous scuba and vacation island both by locals as foreigners.
- Snake Island, Cervera Shoal : Snake Island offers scuba diving in healthy waters amongst many marine species and excellent coral formations.
- Bunga Bent :
- Ghost Town : Ghost Town
- Limasawa Island : Limasawa Island gets more and more popular for diving, beaching, swimming and other water activities.
- Little Lembeh :
- Napantao Wall :
- Padre Burgos : Padre Burgos and San Roque are excellent villages to explore the south of Leyte in more detail.
- Padre Burgos Jetty : The Padre Burgos Jetty is used for visiting Limasawa Island but it is also one of the best muck dives around Leyte.
- Tangkaan Point : Tangkaan Point offers diving at a steep slope covered in soft corals, sponges and anemones at the southern tip of Leyte.
- Panaon Island : Panaon Island is a large island in the southeast of Sogod Bay offering excellent diving and stunning dive sites.
- Napantaw Fish Sanctuary : Lot of fish, healthy corals and strong currents are some of the characteristics of an excellent dive at Napantaw Fish Sanctuary.
- Coron Bay : Coron Bay is known to wreck divers all across the world as it is the place where many Japanese vessels have been sunk in WWII by American planes.
- 7 Islands, 7 Rocks : Seven Islands or 7 Rocks is popular reef and sanctuary near Coron Town with plenty of divers and snorkelers.
- Akitsushima : The Akitsushima is Coron Bay's biggest navy-ships that sank after a huge torpedo hit in its fuel storage tanks.
- Alcatraz Reef : Alcatraz Reef is a nice dive around a small rocky islet known for its diversity and amounts of reef fish.
- Baracuda Lake : Barracuda Lake is famous for its jelly bottom composition, its thermal layers and its barracudas that like the more than 30 degrees warm waters.
- Black Island Wreck, Nanshin Maru : The diving wreck located near the pretty beach of Black Island is also wrongly known as the Nanshin Maru.
- Bugor Reef : Bugor Reef is a pleasant reef with excellent visibilities and plenty of marine life.
- Cathedral Cave :
- Coral Gardens :
- CYC Island :
- East Tangat Gunboat Wreck, Tamakaze : The Tamakaze or East Tangat Gunboat as it is better known is one of the few shallow wreck dives in Coron Bay.
- Irako : The IJNS Irako is one of the best shipwrecks in Coron Bay, one for experienced wreck divers only.
- Kalambuyan Reef : Kalambuyan Reef is a very healthy reef located quite far away from Coron Town often visited on dive safaris.
- Kogyo Maru : Dive site the Kogyo Maru is where you can find the famous bulldozer or tractor resting in one of its holds.
- Kyokuzan Maru : The 135m long Kyokuzan Maru is another great Imperial Japanese Army Auxiliary Supply Ship sunk in Coron Bay.
- Luson Gunboat, Luson Reef : The Luson Gunboat is a 30 meter long wreckage situated in perfect conditions for snorkelers and novice divers.
- Morazán Maru, Olympia Maru : One of the most popular wrecks in Coron Bay is the 93 meter long Morazán Maru or Olympia Maru.
- Neptune's Wall :
- Okikawa Maru, Taiei Maru : The Okikawa Maru or Taiei Maru was a huge oil tanker nowadays a haven for marine species and corals.
- Olympia Maru, Tangat Wreck : The Olympia Maru is a 127 meter long wreck with huge cargo holds swarmed in fish creating one of the best dives in Coron.
- Skeleton Wreck : Only its remaining keel and steel ribs have named this wreck Skeleton Wreck.
- Twin Peaks :
- El Nido : El Nido is with its many beaches, bays, inlets and islands an underwater paradise to behold.
- Amos Rock : Diving at dive site Amos Rock
- Camiguin : Camiguin is a small island formed of seven volcanoes and ringed with a wicked coral reef.
- Old Volcano : The Old Volcano is a dive site amongst huge volcanic boulders on a rich slope filled with marine life.
- Sunken Cemetery : The Sunken Cemetery is diving on top of a small graveyard which was pushed into the ocean by volcano Daan in 1871.
- Davao : Davao is known for Mount Apo, the white beaches at Samal Island and for its many durian fruit farms.
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