Just across the waters of the Verde Island passage lay some of the best dive sites in the Philippines. Luckily for us, it only takes a Banka boat 45 minutes to get to the drop off site from our resort here in Sabang! We like to do day trips with diving and a barbeque on the beach there as often as we can.

The drop off is basically a large underwater pinnacle with a sheer wall on the Southern side and a gradual slope on the Northern side. The wall drops off 60m to a shelf and then slopes gradually off for a short distance before it drops again to 80m a little further out. Swirling currents attract so many fish in schools of all different types and quite often larger pelagics can be seen here too. A variety of sharks, turtles, rays, dolphins and even whale sharks have been seen here many times.

The visibility can be as much as 50m sometimes and the corals at this site are simply breathtaking. This site must always be treated with great respect as the currents here can be fierce. We like to drop in on the North side and assemble the group at 10-12m on the bottom then head around through the schools of fish to sling shot around the pinnacle onto the sheer face of the wall. Verde Island Drop Off is a truly awesome dive site with so many species of fish, crustaceans and invertebrates that there are just too many to list. We have a sensible policy of not taking any novice divers to this site unless the currents are at an absolute minimum strength.