Dive site: Cervera Shoal or Snake Island

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PADI rating 2 flags. Often a strong drift dive. Monitor your NDL, average depth is deeper than normal. Its underwater shoal with the top at 8m that means you have to make a safety stop in free water, make use of a marker buoy to drift at 5m, 3min for your safety stop. There used to be some dynamite fishing, the reef is however slowly recovering. Often this dive site is the second dive in combination with Pamilacan Island. Start the dive with the slope on the right shoulder. Many Black-White Banded Sea snakes (luticauda colubrina), Moray's like the White-eyed (siderea thysoidea), Starry moray eel (echidna nebolosa) and Nudibranchs. Small reef fish. Some corals and Bucket sponges. The top is teeming with sea urchins, be careful with your buoyancy.
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Coordinates:   9°28'10"N   123°52'4"E
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