Dive Review of Magic Island Dive resort in
Philippines/Moaboal

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Magic Island Dive resort: "Amazing find in the Philippines", Mar, 2017, by Jim Willoughby, OR, US ( Contributor 13 reports with 10 Helpful votes). Report 9529 has 3 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	Our group took over the whole resort. 11 rooms with 19 guests. The resort is a beautiful homey resort with nice sized rooms, great air co, a very nice pool and an amazing staff. The food was plentiful and good. The entire resort is very clean and well run. We stayed for 2 weeks doing mostly 3 dives a day although some of the group did 4 a day. For the photographers in the group there was plenty to see and photograph. Lots of frogfish. Several sightings of Blue ring Octopus. Turtles on most dives. The vis was poor during the beginning of the trip due to previous weather conditions but it did not stop the diving or the photo opportunities. A couple of the dive sites had strong current but mostly calm to very slight current. We had the opportunity to dive with the whale sharks and although there are mixed opinions about the feeding of the sharks it was a very impressive dive. The locals are running a very successful operation that supports the village and gives divers and snorkelers an opportunity to see the Whale Sharks up close. The shallow reef in many areas was stunning were as the deeper reefs were pretty beat up but there was no shortage of critters at the top and the mid range depth.
Websites	Magic Island Dive resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Indonesia, most of the Caribbean, California, Oregon, Hawaii, Raja Ampat
Closest Airport	Cebu	Getting There	from US west coast. SFO or LAX to Seoul to Cebu
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, currents
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-50 Ft/ 6-15 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	suggested bottom times of 65 minutes but no issues with going over. Depth limits were no deco as usual.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	> 2
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	I would give the resort overall 5 stars for UWP if they had a better set up for photographers. The rinse tank on the boat was too small for my rig and there was no place at the dive deck to handle cameras other than a rinse tank. Given space restraints I am not sure that they could add any facilities but I also had no problem working with my camera in my room.

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Dive Review of Magic Island Dive resort in Philippines/Moaboal

Magic Island Dive resort: "Amazing find in the Philippines", Mar, 2017,

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of Magic Island Dive resort in
Philippines/Moaboal