Discover El Nido’s Diving Spots & Dive Sites

With 16 different diving spots, El Nido offers a lot of variety for all kinds of divers!

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced diver, you’ll find many diving spots fitting your needs and your desires in El Nido! The Bacuit Archipelago counts no less than 40 different islands and more than 16 dive sites. There’s a lot a variety there: walls, coral reefs, tunnels, caves, sandy patches and slops.

El Nido Dive Sites - Spots for Scuba Diving in Palawan

On this page, you’ll find a description of each diving spots you can explore in El Nido. For each spot, you’ll get the site topology and characteristics, the kind of fishes and animals you can see there, and indications on the difficulty level (for beginner or advanced divers).

These diving spots are spread in the Bacuit Bay and will take 15 to 60 minutes to access by boat from El Nido beach. You can explore them during a fun dive (at day, night or sunrise) or while you’re taking a PADI course.

Cauayan Rock

  • Description: Step slope Reef
  • Depth: 10-24 meters
  • Level: All levels

Dilumacad Reef

  • Description: Flat and slope Reef
  • Depth: 5-43 meters
  • Level: All levels

Dilumacad Tunnel

  • Description: Tunnel, Cavern
  • Depth: 10-15 meters
  • Level: Advanced Open Water Diver

South Entalula

  • Description: Flat Reef
  • Depth: 4-21 meters
  • Level: All levels

West Entalula

  • Description: Drop-off Reef
  • Depth: 5-36 meters
  • Level: All levels

West Matinloc

  • Description: Rock / Shallow Cave
  • Depth: 8-21 meters
  • Level: All levels

Miniloc Front

  • Description: Slope Reef
  • Depth: 2-30 meters
  • Level: All levels

Miniloc-Simizu Crossing

  • Description: Sandy / Rocks in Channel
  • Depth: 5-24 meters
  • Level: Advanced Open Water Diver

South Miniloc

  • Description: Flat Reef and Slope on both side
  • Depth: 5-43 meters
  • Level: All levels

Pacanayas

  • Description: Submerged Reef
  • Depth: 8-15 meters
  • Level: All levels

Paglugaban

  • Description: Slope and Reef rock
  • Depth: 8-30 meters
  • Level: All levels

Popolcan Forrest

  • Description: Slope Reef
  • Depth: 5-30 meters
  • Level: Advanced Open Water Diver

Tambalanang

  • Description: Rocks
  • Depth: 5-24 meters
  • Level: All levels

Tapiutan

  • Description: Rocks and Arches
  • Depth: 10-24 meters
  • Level: All levels

Twin Rocks

  • Description: Slope Reef
  • Depth: 5-40 meters
  • Level: All levels

North Rock Crossing

  • Description: Slope Reef
  • Depth: 12-30 meters
  • Level: Advanced Open Water Diver
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