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Palawan Diving & Scuba Diving in El Nido
Discover scuba diving in Palawan with a focus on El Nido and Bacuit Bay. Whether you're planning your first dive, joining daily fun dives, completing a course or looking for a private diving experience, Palawan Diving helps you explore the best diving options in El Nido.
Why Dive in Palawan?
Palawan is one of the Philippines’ most exciting diving destinations, offering everything from the coral reefs and limestone islands of El Nido and Bacuit Bay to some of the country’s most renowned offshore diving. For visitors staying in El Nido, scuba diving offers a completely different perspective on Palawan, with a wide variety of dive sites suitable for beginners through to experienced divers.
El Nido & Bacuit Bay
El Nido offers diverse diving throughout Bacuit Bay, with coral reefs, islands, rock formations and a range of dive sites for different experience levels.It is also an excellent base for combining diving with El Nido’s beaches, island experiences, restaurants and nightlife.
Tubbataha Reefs
For experienced divers planning a wider Palawan diving holiday, Tubbataha Reefs offers a very different liveaboard diving experience during its seasonal diving period. Explore our Tubbataha guide to learn more.
El Nido Diving Experience
Discover scuba diving in El Nido, from daily fun dives and diving courses to beachfront Stay & Dive packages.
Fun Dives in El Nido
Explore Palawan’s top-rated dive sites with expert guides.
Learn to Dive in El Nido
Try scuba diving for the first time or continue your training with PADI diving courses, from Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water through to advanced training.
Stay & Dive in El Nido – Save 10%
Stay beachfront at The Beach House and dive with Submariner Diving Center. Book your accommodation and diving together and save 10% on both.
Stay & Dive – Save 10%
Stay beachfront at The Beach House, dive with Submariner from the same building, and save 10% on both accommodation and diving.
Best Dive Sites in El Nido, Palawan
South Miniloc
home to giant schools of fish and dramatic rock formations
North Rock
reef diving and marine life in Bacuit Bay
Twin Rocks
colourful reef diving, suitable for a range of divers when conditions allow
Dilumacad Tunnel
a unique underwater cave adventure
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Plan Your El Nido Diving Trip
Scuba diving in El Nido is available throughout the year, although dive conditions vary with the weather and season. If diving is an important part of your Palawan holiday, we recommend allowing several days in El Nido. This gives you more opportunities to explore different dive sites around Bacuit Bay, with the dive team selecting suitable sites according to experience, interests and daily conditions.