Find your Cebu dive site

Regulates snorkelling and island hopping at Pescador Island, the marine protected areas and the coast, and sets an environmental user fee. Touching marine life is one of 13 listed violations, fined ₱2,500. Published fee amounts disagree, so we print none: divers pay a marine-park fee through their dive operator, and snorkellers at a booth on the beach.

Declared a marine park and fish sanctuary by the Moalboal council in 1990.

The strait between Cebu and Negros is a national protected seascape, and Zaragosa’s sanctuary sits inside it.

Published fees conflict (a 2016 list versus "no entrance fee" in 2024), so check locally.

Daanbantayan Executive Order 16 (2015) made Monad Shoal and Gato Island a shark and ray sanctuary, banning the catching and trade of all sharks and rays there.

Declared a marine protected area by Tabango, Leyte on 6 February 2026. Open Water divers are reported to need a buoyancy workshop before the dive, and flash photography is not allowed.

Day use ₱50 per head, diving ₱150, round-trip boat ₱5,000 per group of up to 15 (as published by a Cebu travel site in March 2025; confirm with Bogo tourism).

A ₱100 environmental fee per day for scuba diving, freediving, island hopping and other water sports in city waters, collected since 1 May 2024 at Angasil, Maribago, Punta Engaño and Marigondon ports. City residents and Filipino children 12 and under are exempt; shoreline swimming and snorkelling are exempt.

Cut to ₱20 for local tourists island hopping with accredited Lapu-Lapu boatmen; ₱100 for foreign visitors unchanged.

Run by the Oslob local government at Tan-awan, mornings only. Scuba divers get a longer slot than snorkellers, and the rules include no touching, keeping 4 m from head and tail, no flash and not diving beneath the sharks. Fees are paid on the day; see our Oslob guide for the timing.

Sumilon’s 2026-2030 management plan lists a ₱100 marine or entrance fee, ₱500 for snorkelling, and ₱1,000 (local) or ₱1,500 (foreign) for scuba diving.

Philippine dive rules ask scuba divers to show a certification card or logbook; without one you can dive only after passing an evaluation dive.

The same rules cap recreational (sport) scuba at 40 m.

Every scuba diving establishment must be licensed by the Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD).

Cebu’s chamber is the PCSSD Hyperbaric Chamber Facility at the TIEZA building in Mandaue City, 3-4 hours by road from Moalboal and about 4 from Malapascua. A second chamber for Daanbantayan has been announced; we have not confirmed it is operating.

Divers Alert Network guidance: at least 12 hours after a single no-decompression dive and at least 18 hours after repeated dives or several days of diving.

DAN membership gives emergency evacuation and a hotline; dive-accident insurance is bought separately.