Sierra Madre Divers, PADI 5-Star IDC, Philippines

Sierra Madre Divers, PADI 5-Star IDC, Philippines Five-Star PADI Instructor Development Center, TecRec Center & Mermaid Center located directly on Alona Beach, Panglao Island, Bohol, Philippines.

We’re a PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Center, TecRec Center & Mermaid Center located right on the pristine shores of Alona beach, Bohol, Philippines. Our passion about diving, the ocean & marine life fuels our desire to share this sport and the stunning underwater world with more people. Our experienced international instructor team offers full range of PADI courses from beginner to professio

nal levels with a dedication to safety and high-quality courses. Additionally, we offer exceptional fun dive services led by professional and friendly local divemasters, with daily trips to Bohol’s top sites like Balicasag and Pamilacan, ensuring a safe and thrilling adventure.

Our First Macro Monday! Let us know if you like this! 📸 our incredible Instructor Cynthia took these insane images aroun...
01/06/2026

Our First Macro Monday! Let us know if you like this! 📸 our incredible Instructor Cynthia took these insane images around the reefs of Bohol recently and we’d love to share a few cool facts about them.

🦀 Crinoid Squat Lobster
Scientific name: (Allogalathea elegans)
Spends its entire life on a single crinoid and colour-matches it perfectly... same host, forever.

🐌 Variable Neon Nudibranch
Scientific name: (Nembrotha kubaryana)
Eats tunicates and actually stores their toxins in its own body as a defence mechanism.

🦐 Wire Coral Shrimp
Scientific name: (Pontonides unciger)
Never leaves its one wire coral - it is born on it, lives on it, and then dies on it.

We know macro isn’t for everyone, but maybe if you look hard enough you’ll find a spark of love in the challenge and being able to meet them 🩵

Are you a macro fan?
📸

31/05/2026

Sammy LOVES the dive boat, the guests and the water. He doesn’t have his open water license but he’s an amazing swimmer (to the point we cannot get him OUT of the water!)

Shop pups are the best 🥹

Take a moment to look up every now and then on your dive. You never know what you might see - especially if you notice l...
29/05/2026

Take a moment to look up every now and then on your dive. You never know what you might see - especially if you notice light disappear… it could be clouds over the sun but it might also be one of the most amazing encounters you could ever imagine !

this post may include false information. 🤫 The first thing Bohol gives you is the colour of the water... a blue that dee...
27/05/2026

this post may include false information. 🤫 The first thing Bohol gives you is the colour of the water... a blue that deepens the further you fall into it, soft at the surface and bottomless underneath.

The wall arrives before you expect it, all coral and sponge and slow shadow, and you find yourself drifting along it while turtles pass without bothering to look up.

Above you, schools of jacks gather into slow silver weather. In the cracks: frogfish, nudibranchs, ghost pipefish that only come out at dusk like they’re keeping a secret.

Every so often a whaleshark drifts through the blue, almost casually..

By the time you surface, you’re already planning the next one.

panglao

26/05/2026

This IS chill, Jessica! 🤣 The day you get invited by a friend to learn to dive, do yourself a favour and say yes.

Open water has 4 ocean dives… but of course you’re going to want to join fun dives after to experience it all with your new skills 🥹

Your PADI Open Water Course is valid for your entire life - certifying you to 18m depth & recognised globally.

All of this happens in less than 2 minutes of your 50-60minute dive by the way... every single day, every single dive bl...
25/05/2026

All of this happens in less than 2 minutes of your 50-60minute dive by the way... every single day, every single dive blows our minds. We’ve dived more than we can count here in Bohol (we’re talking thousands) and no two dives are ever the same.

We are so lucky to be able to call this incredible island home, and be able to share the underwater world with you.

Can’t wait to dive with you again soon!!

22/05/2026

There are SO many clownfish species around Bohol’s reefs. We sit in the Coral Triangle, so divers around Panglao, Balicasag, and Anda regularly spot the Ocellaris (“Nemo”), Clark’s anemonefish, the Tomato, the occasional Saddleback, and the dainty Pink Skunk - roughly five or six species in all.

🪸 Meet the Pink Anemonefish - The Pink Skunk (Amphiprion perideraion) is the gentle oddball. Pale peach with one white stripe running nose-to-tail along its back, plus a thin bar behind the eye. Small, around 8–10 cm. Lives in big social groups inside a single anemone.

What makes it different?

It’s a pacifist 🤫 less aggressive than other clownfish, sometimes bullied by damselfish.

Pink Skunks “sing” using their teeth and jaw pops, ranking top three loudest of all twenty-nine clownfish species.

Tiny, pink, surprisingly mouthy😎

10/10 would recommend 😜
21/05/2026

10/10 would recommend 😜

20/05/2026

What is the sorcery to the most insane dive experiences happening when NO ONE has a camera? Does anyone know? 😂

19/05/2026

Reef toucher… 🐢

Address

Alona Beach, Tawala
Panglao
6340

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 7pm
Tuesday 8am - 7pm
Wednesday 8am - 7pm
Thursday 8am - 7pm
Friday 8am - 7pm
Saturday 8am - 7pm
Sunday 8am - 7pm

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