Kirby's Rock Dive Site Information and Maps - Subic, Manila, Anilao, Philippines

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Kirby's Rock dive site located in Anilao, Batangas (Philippines). 5m.-45m / 16ft.-150ft. in depth. Visibility is from 10m.-20m./33ft.-66ft. Current is slight to moderate moving west ward most of the time. The place is wall diving that starts from the side of the rocky islet of caban and extend down to the sloped sandy bottom of 30m./100ft and sloped down again to the abbys. At the bottom of 35m./116ft. deep of water, there is one big boulder of solid rock laying down where you can find see fans that has many yellow nudibranch attached to it as well as long nose hawk fish and beneath that the same rock you will see many yellow lined and harleyquin sweet lips. This place often visited by black and white frog fish, sea snake, small group of giant trevally and its resident the beautiful purple fire goby. Dive is commonly returns to the boat.

Location: The northeast face of Caban Island
Access: 30 min by banca southwest across the Maricaban Strait.
Conditions: Generally calm with strong currents. Visibility can reach 100 ft.
Average depth: 40 ft
Maximum depth: 108 ft

Kirby's Rock sticks out of the water. On its shoreward side it drops 16 ft from where the reef slopes upwards to the shore. This side of the rock and the reef to the shore have good coral cover and fish life, including soft and leathery corals, crinoids, hydroids, feather duster worms, Christmas tree worms, blue sea squirts, linckia sea stars, cushion stars and Bohadschia sea cucumbers and is teeming with reef fish.

On the seaward side the rock drops as a wall to 65 ft and then shelves slowly off on sand with coral patches to 108ft. This wall is rich with soft corals, colorful crinoids, good size barrel sponges, white finger sponges, hydroids, sea stars, alabaster sea cucumbers, medium-size gorgonian sea fans, segmented worms, feather duster worms, Christmas-tree worms and many different species of nudibranchs and flat worms. The wall is covered in small bright yellow Cucumaria sea cucumbers.

The bottom of the wall has several crevices harbouring moray eels, and there are many whip corals and anemones with downfish among the coral heads on the sand. There are lots of colorful wrasse, most species of reef fish and occasional pelagic visitor. Also an ideal dive for photographers, if you are able to hit slack water.

Diver's Network - Monte Carlo Anilao (PADI Gold Palm Resort) offers a complete scuba diving facilities from gear rental, tanks, air, refills, nitrox and boat rentals. It also offers PADI Scuba Diving Courses from beginner to instructor level. It is approximately two and a half hours by land south of Manila. The resort has 14 rooms, all fully air-conditioned with private toilet and bathtub, as well as hot and cold shower. The resort have a full service bar, restaurant, 2 pools, bar, a house reef just a few steps from the water's edge for snorkellers to explore, boats if you want to have a picnic on an island, scuba diving and aqua sports facilities.

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