Diving
The sea is the reason
White Chocolate Hills is a dive resort at heart: an on-site dive centre, a house reef a few fin-kicks out, and the turtles of Apo Island a boat ride south.
On site, on the water
Coral Dive & Adventure
Our own dive centre stands a few steps from the sea: quality rental gear racked and ready, guided fun dives for certified divers, and training from a first breath underwater to a full certification course. The house reef begins a few fin-kicks out, so the easiest dive of your stay is the one right in front of the resort. Tell the team your level and they will shape the day around it.
A short boat ride south
Apo Island
A protected marine sanctuary and one of the great dives of the Visayas: green sea turtles grazing the shallows, coral walls dropping into the blue, and clouds of fish that close over you on the drift. The boat leaves from the coast and the crossing is short, which leaves the whole day for the water. Bring a camera; the turtles are unbothered and close.
Under the surface
Ways into the water
Your first dive
Never breathed underwater? A guided first dive in calm, shallow water with an instructor at your side the whole time.
Learn to dive
Earn your certification on the house reef and nearby sites, at an unhurried pace with small groups.
Guided fun dives
Already certified? Join a guided dive on the reef, at Apo Island or along the Dauin coast, gear and guide arranged at the shop.
Snorkelling
Not a diver? Mask, snorkel and fins, and a reef close enough to swim to. The fish do not mind which you choose.
Where we dive
From the doorstep to the deep
The house reef
Coral and fish a few fin-kicks from the shore, easy to reach and easy to linger over. The first and last dive of most stays.
Apo Island sanctuary
Turtles, walls and current-swept walls of fish, on a protected reef a short boat ride south of the resort.
Dauin muck diving
Up the coast lies the black-sand muck of Dauin, hunting ground of frogfish, seahorses and the strange small creatures divers travel for.
Gear & training
Quality rental kit kept in good order, and instruction from a first try-dive to certification, all on site at the dive centre.
Geared and guided
Everything but the breathing
Buoyancy jackets, regulators and tanks kept in good order, racked and ready beside the sea. Whether it is a first try-dive, an open-water course or a guided drift at Apo Island, the team sorts the kit, the boat and the plan; you bring nothing but the urge to get in. Non-divers can borrow a mask and fins and meet the same reef from the surface.
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