Gato Island Marine Sanctuary
Cebu City, Cebu
Gato Island is a marine reserve and sea snake sanctuary. It has at least five dive sites with a huge diversity of marine life. At all sites you can see such things as banded sea snakes, cuttlefish (often while mating), seahorses, nudibranchs, frogfish, scorpion fish, porcupine fish, and smashing mantis shrimp.
Away from the reef you can see schools of squid and big-mouthed mackerel ...
attracted by the baitballs. There are many whitetip sharks in residence at Gato, as well as bamboo and cat sharks. The coral is in good condition and the rocky island has many interesting underwater rock formations, overhangs, and swim-through's.
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Strategically positioned, Cebu Island, with its many islets, is one of the best dive destinations in the world, showcasing plenty of stunning underwater beauties.
This elongated island is surrounded by abundant and ecologically linked underwater ecosystems. In the north is the Visayan Sea, widely known as "the heart of marine biodiversity on Earth." In the east is Tanon Strait, the biggest and one of the richest marine protected areas in the country. In the south and west are also marine-rich seas: Bohol Sea and Camotes Sea.
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