Diving in Bohol, Philippines

On Feb. 24th, 2009, we made our third dive here. Depth was 30 meters for 40 minutes. Visibility 15 - 20 meters. Finaly I managed to get enough material together for the first video. Unfortunately, youtube srunk the video and now it looks a little blured, while the original is clear. Have to work on that. We saw a Harlekin Sweetlip and a lonly Bat Fish on this dive. For the quality of this video I have to say, that I made it all with my small Digital Camera, a Casio Z85 in an underwater housing. I don't have any artificial light down there so you will see everything in blue colours. When I come back next year I might bring some lights so the colors come out better.

Lion Fish Our second dive was on Feb. 19th, 2009. This time we started our dive to the right side to see what it's like. We reched a depth of 25 meters and dive time was 45 minutes. Visibility was better this time, about 15 meters. That is still not perfect for the Philippines where visibilityunder water can be 30 meters and more. Once again I was surprised how nice and varied the reef is. There are huge fields of antler corals, fan corals and plenty of feather star sitting on them. Fishes in this area are not so big but there is a lot of small swarm fish. The biggest fish I ever saw in the Philippines was a small shark on Cabilao Island a few years ago. The most interesting this time were some Lion Fish, see the photo above. My wife found the one on the picture first and then we discovered some more in the same area of the reef. Here are some more pictures from this dive: Wife behind one of the huge fan corals here! Feather Star sitting on a fan coral Nemo

Our first Dive on the Reefs of Loon , Bohol was on January 19th, 2009. We wanted to dive right in front of our house, where there is a " Fish Sanctuary ". It's an area which is marked with buoys and it's not allowed to fish here. I don't know how ever, how much the local fishermen care about this. Unfortunately, there is a mangrove forest here on the shoreline and the reef itself, where it actually goes down is about 500 metres from shore. Since we dont't have our own boat yet, we had to rent a small Pumb Boat and somebody who would bring us out. The boats here are very small and without engine, so only my wife and the equipment could go in the boat, I had to swim all the way out. But finaly we made it and went to our very first dive in an area, where probably nobody else has ever dived before. Visibility was nbit so good on this day, we had only about 10 metres but we went down to a depth of 25 meters for about 40 minutes and there are some nices corals down

A short story, what is it all about: We, my wife and I had a small Dive Center in Camiguin Island in the Philippines. Because off lacking customers, we closed our business there and moved to Bohol Island, which is my wifes home place. All our diving equipment, including tanks copmpressor was sold to a Dive Resort on nearby Cabilao Island. That was is in April, 2005 and just now, in 2008 in brought a new compressor in germany and sent it to the Philippines to do some more diving. This time however not for business but for private fun. It took us a while to set up the compressor in a new frame and to buy some more equipment like the tanks in the Philippines but we are ready for diving now. So this site is sort of my personel Dive Log Book for our diving here in Bohol, Philippines.