Dive with purpose. This is the core value of our dive team. Every dive for us is a clean-up dive, where we pick up garbage or clean up ghost fishing gear. We will also teach you some simple techniques in how to rescue coral, at no extra cost. Our dive pros are all passionate about the ocean, so come join us! We offer courses from trying out Scuba, to getting certified for Open Water up to Instructor Candidate level certifications for both local and international diving enthusiasts. We are certified to teach SSI - Scuba Schools International courses in all levels with specialties from Photo & Video Specialties , Full Faced Mask Diving and Dive Propulsion Vehicle diving as real life diving adventures underwater in the following languages: English, Tagalog We can also arrange for an instructor to teach in a language not listed above with advance notice.
The ocean already has enough problems going into it each and every day, so as a dive team, we at Silver Reef Dive Resort make every dive into a clean-up dive. By getting into this habit, we as instructors for SSI hope that our students follow our example and make the ocean a little bit cleaner every time we go into the water. We’ve picked up a myriad of ocean trash during our thousands of dives ranging from bits of plastic, to sacks, to shoes, diapers, and napkins, and sometimes we get reports of discarded fishing gear. With our extensive collective experiences, including technical overhead diving in Arctic waters, we are capable of extracting huge swaths of nets and hundreds of meters of fishing line. On the left is a video of a net recovery we did in our house reef where we have resident Green and Hawksbill turtles amongst a plethora of other marine life.
Silver Reef Dive Resort focuses on responsible tourism by up-cycling marine debris for ocean conservation, allowing guests to do good and feel good about the community we are based in. We promote eco-education to the community through local procurement of goods and by supporting local artists through their handicrafts, paintings, and murals. As a dive resort, we aim to educate both divers and non-divers on the importance of Coral Rescue through Coral Quest workshops conducted by certified coral gardening professionals. Silver Reef Dive Resort is a zero-waste establishment as we highlight Community, Culture, and Conservation. Our efforts on going full throttle to manage trash and eliminate waste are to create a self-sustaining dive resort that doesn’t need protection.
Culture and Art Meaningful Art and architecture make the Resort’s identity simulate a fluid flow of inspirational symbols. These symbolic visuals allow heightened awareness that could move mindsets into proper actions. We nurture, encourage, and inspire local talents by inviting them to contribute to our ocean advocacy in the form of handicrafts, paintings, and murals. We communicate these much-needed advocacies as a meaningful “art walk” experience that inspires for positive change for the Oceans.
Gentle slope reef with a lot of yellow tail Snappers, resident Green Turtles and Hawksbill turtles. Reef has strong current but a diver can hide behind huge coral bommies and hang out with fish at 5m
Located on the southwest corner of Apo Island, Rock Point West is adjacent to it’s sibling Rock Point East. A steep slope leads you to a plateau towards the southern tip where the current gets stronger most of the time.
Located inside Silver Reef Dive Resort, with easy access to dive students 3 steps away from the classroom, salt water pool with a depth of 5 metres, entry level students can experience pressure needed to learn frequent and early equalization.
The Catholic Chapel at Apo Island can be seen from the dive site, hence the name. A stunning dive site that begins as a slope with scattered coral bommies leading to a steeper slope towards a wall overloaded with nook, crannies, cracks, crevices & caverns exposing overhangs graced by soft & hard corals.
To date, Apo Island is one of the most successful conservation stories in the Philippines. Marine Sanctuary was one of the first sanctuaries in the Philippines, where a maximum of only 15 divers are allowed at a time.
Largahan is a very beautiful and diverse site. You will find a dark sandy area of coral gardens and volcanic rocks. This site is great for macro diving, like the whole of Apo Island.
A virtual washing machine experience awaits you at Coconut Point, an exciting dive site on the northern tip of Apo Island. The current can come at you literally from any side left, right, up, down & center. A sloping reef edging towards a rock wall. This site is best for experienced divers.
Sea Dream Resort house reef, built in 2019 and now one of the top dive sites on the coast. Flat seagrass meadow and sandy slope with coral blocks and large artificial elements made of metal and concrete. Fades south into a coral reef and another reef starts at 25m.
Mamsa is the Filipino word for trevally, hence the name. The currents can really be strong in this spot a few hundred meters north of Kan-uran Point.
Sloping reef combination of Mac diving and reef dive. Reef ball and artificial reef in the shallow. Type: Coral and soft coral reefMax Depth: Approximately 24 meters (80 feet)Skill Level: Open Water Diver and above. Entry: Shore entry. Current: Generally mild; occasional medium currents suitable for drift diving
Everything is possible at this place, the many artificial reef structures that have been built by Dive Society since 2012 attract a variety of creatures, from the smallest macro creatures to whale sharks and many reef fish, everything is possible. Reef Village, Reef Cones and wrecks have been sunk here.
Cogon means grass in the Filipino language. ‘Cogon Point’ was named after the grass used for roofing native houses that can be seen directly onshore, northeast of Apo Island.
A great dive site for new divers. This site is very easy to dive and the coral and sea turtles will just take your breath away. A beautiful slope that lets you see the far reaching coral gardens and if you look close, you will have the chance to see nudibranchs and a lot of colorful reef fish.
Slightly north of the Marine Sanctuary is a gentle wall dive that ‘Kan-Uran Point’ affords divers. Kan-uran means ’from the person,’ in the local Visayan dialect. Newbie fun divers can experience getting inside overhangs & ledges to explore an abundant gentle explosion of colorful soft & hard coral gardens.
Olo is a beautiful reef found on the north east of Apo Island. You will find not only the beautiful coral typical for the island, you may also spot sea snakes, nudibranchs, and frogfish.
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