Pescador Island
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About this site
Pescador Island is an uninhabited island off Moalboal, in the Basdiot district, about 4 km and 11 minutes by boat from Panagsama Beach. A shallow reef 3 to 10 m wide fringes the rocky cliffs, then drop-offs plunge to 40 m and more. The north and west sides are deep wall, the south is a steep slope, and the Cathedral lies in the northwest. Visibility is 10 to 30 m, the current runs 0 to 3 knots, and the interesting depths are 7 to 20 m.
The cliff faces are a mass of caverns and overhangs. The most dramatic is Pescador Cathedral, a large cavern reached through a funnel 15 m wide that descends to 35 m. The reef holds some 450 species of hard coral, along with pyramid butterflyfish, tuna, nudibranchs, snake eels, frogfish, barracuda and whitetip reef sharks.
Divers are often surrounded by schools of pelagics, whitetip sharks are common and hammerheads appear on occasion. Snorkelling is excellent, and the site is open to Open Water divers.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
ButterflyfishButterflyfishReported here · unconfirmed
Reef sharkReef sharkReported here · unconfirmed
AnthiasAnthiasReported here · unconfirmed
Blackspotted PufferArothron nigropunctatusReported here · unconfirmed
Tomato ClownfishAmphiprion frenatusReported here · unconfirmed
Giant FrogfishAntennarius commersonReported here · unconfirmed
Snowflake MorayEchidna nebulosaReported here · unconfirmed
Ocellaris AnemonefishAmphiprion ocellarisReported here · unconfirmed
Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiReported here · unconfirmed
Papuan TobyCanthigaster papuaReported here · unconfirmed
Squat Anemone ShrimpThor amboinensisReported here · unconfirmed
Blue LinckiaLinckia laevigataReported here · unconfirmed
ScorpionfishScorpionfishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
TunaTunaReported here · unconfirmed
NudibranchNudibranchConfirmed present · 3 independent sources
BarracudaBarracudaReported here · unconfirmed
FrogfishFrogfishConfirmed present · 4 independent sources
Hammerhead sharkHammerhead sharkReported here · unconfirmed
ClownfishClownfishReported here · unconfirmed
SnapperSnapperReported here · unconfirmed
Leaf scorpionfishLeaf scorpionfishReported here · unconfirmed
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