The SY Philippine Siren is a 40m long luxury liveaboard constructed in 2013 in the traditional gaff-rigged phinisi-style, out of Indonesian ironwood and teak to Lloyds safety standards. She accommodates 16 guests on a variety of cruises offering the best of Philippines diving in Tubbataha, Visayas, Malapascua and Donsol.
Being part of the prestigious Siren liveaboard fleet this schooner is European-owned and managed and has a crew of 12. Guests are accommodated in 8 well appointed, air-conditioned, standard en-suite cabins where you can retire and enjoy flat screen televisions with pre-loaded movies and a music system should you desire quiet relaxation time. After an action-packed day's diving, tired muscles can be soothed in the privacy of your cabin by the resident masseuse. Packing for these trips will be light as bathrobes, towels, shower gel and hairdryers are supplied. For your safety, cabins are fitted with smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.
The Philippine Siren's design has been fine-tuned to the needs of scuba divers. The large dive deck includes individual storage draws, a dedicated table for charging and preparation of camera and videography equipment, large separate camera rinse tanks and well-trained deck crew who will take care of you and your equipment. Dive equipment is available, as well as lost diver devices, and 12L tanks are supplied together with DIN adaptors if needed. An added advantage of diving trips on the Philippine Siren is that they offer enriched air nitrox. Hot water showers on the deck are a welcome convenience after each dive.
Beautiful tropical scenery is the backdrop for all meals which are served on the covered, open air main deck. A variety of Asian and western buffet meals are included, and if guests have special dietary needs, they can be accommodated if advanced notice is given. A toast to each day's incredible diving in the Philippines is enjoyed with a beer, wine, spirits or cocktails, all available at a reasonable cost. The liveaboard's spacious air-conditioned saloon is the ideal meeting place to view fellow divers' images and videos as well as to make new friends over a board game or discussion about the day's marine sightings. Sun lovers can relax on the reclining loungers on the spacious sun deck. Kayaks are available for those who still have the energy to explore.
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (7 Days / 6 Nights - 19 Dives)
Trip highlights: shark action, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, wall diving
Dive sites and activities: Delsan Wreck, Black Rock, Washing Machine, North East Wall, Donato's Wall, Shark Airport, Amos Rock, Staghorn Point, Jessie Beazley Reefs, Malayan Wreck
Day 1
If you are planning to arrive in Puerto Princesa on the day of embarkation, your domestic flight from Manila should land no later than 12:00 hrs. A SY Philippine Siren representative will wait for you at the arrivals terminal and escort you to the boat where a boat orientation will be given. Dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-6
Tubbataha Reef is considered part of the 7 Wonders of Nature in the World. Located in the center of the Sulu Sea, it is made up of South and North Atolls and the nearby Jessie Beazley Reef. It is here that you will find one of the most pristine coral reefs around the world. Developing from the volcanic depths of Sulu Sea, the atolls have an impressive and distinct marine life. The park is a marine sanctuary in which nature flourishes, a dream place to go for divers like you, where you can find around 300 different coral types and at least 380 species of fish. Groupers, trevallies, Napoleon wrasse, triggerfish, turtles and also sharks are present.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day. Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 7
Disembarkation is in Puerto Princesa at around 10:00 hrs, after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred to Puerto Princesa International Airport on the island of Palawan to catch your flight back to Manila.
Tubbataha, Cebu, Bohol, Dumaguete & Cagayan (14 Days / 13 Nights - 38 Dives)
Trip highlights: whale sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers, drift diving, healthy reefs, off the beaten track, wall diving
Dive sites and activities: Tubbataha: Delsan Wreck, Black Rock, North East Wall, Shark Airport, Amos Rock, Staghorn Point, Jessie Beazley Reefs, Malayan Wreck; and Cagayancillo, Apo Island, Dauin, Balicasag, Cabilao
Day 1
Landing at Mactan International Airport in Cebu no later than 12:00 hrs, the amazing SY Philippine Siren is only a 10 minute car ride from there. A SY Philippine Siren representative will wait for you at the arrivals terminal and escort you to the boat where a boat orientation will be given. Last embarkation time is at 13:00 hrs. Dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-13
Tubbataha Reef is considered part of the 7 Wonders of Nature in the World. Located in the center of the Sulu Sea, it is made up of South and North Atolls and the nearby Jessie Beazley Reef. It is here that you will find one of the most pristine coral reefs around the world. The atolls have an impressive and distinct marine life. The park is a marine sanctuary where you can find around 300 different coral types and at least 380 species of fish. Groupers, trevallies, Napoleon wrasse, triggerfish, turtles and also sharks are present.
The Visayas offer some of the best diving in the Philippines. You will dive on colourful reefs teeming with marine life. Some great wall dives will be planned near Cabilao, and the diversity of macro life at Dauin such as sailfin gobies and radial filefish, is excellent. And there are healthy soft and hard corals, schools of fish, turtles feeding on corals, bumphead wrasse at Apo Island, and always a chance to encounter a large pelagic whale shark at Oslob.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day. Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 14
Disembarkation is in Puerto Princesa at around 10:00 hrs, after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred to Puerto Princesa International Airport on the island of Palawan to catch your flight back to Manila.
Please note that these trips sometimes run in reverse - check above for port details.
Cebu, Bohol & Dumaguete (7 Days / 6 Nights - 18 Dives)
Trip highlights: whale sharks, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers
Dive sites and activities: Moalboal: Pescador, Panagsama Beach, Tongo Point, Turtle Bay, Dolphin House; Oslob, Apo Island: Coconut Point, Rocky Point West, Cogon; Dauin, Balicasag: Diver's Heaven, Black Forest; Cabilao: Gorgonian Wall, Lighthouse, Talisay Tree, Cambaquiz
Day 1
Landing at Mactan International Airport in Cebu no later than 12:00 hrs, the amazing SY Philippine Siren is only a 10 minute car ride from there. An SY Philippine Siren representative will wait for you at the arrivals terminal and escort you to the boat where a boat orientation will be given. Dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-6
The Visayas offer some of the best diving in the Philippines. You will dive on colourful reefs teeming with marine life. Some great wall dives will be planned near Cabilao and the diversity of macro life at Dauin such as sailfin gobies and radial filefish, but also healthy soft and hard corals, schools of fish, turtles feeding on corals, bumphead wrasse at Apo Island, and always a chance to encounter a large pelagic whale shark at Oslob.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day. Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 7
Disembarkation is in Moalboal at around 10:00 hrs, after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred back to Cebu, a 4 hour drive, if previously arranged. Please note that these trips sometimes run in reverse - check above for port details.
Cebu, Bohol & Dumaguete (8 Days / 7 Nights - 22 Dives)
Trip highlights: whale sharks, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers
Dive sites and activities: Moalboal: Pescador, Panagsama Beach, Tongo Point, Turtle Bay, Dolphin House; Oslob, Apo Island: Coconut Point, Rocky Point West, Cogon; Dauin, Balicasag: Diver's Heaven, Black Forest; Cabilao: Gorgonian Wall, Lighthouse, Talisay Tree, Cambaquiz
Day 1
Landing at Mactan International Airport in Cebu no later than 12:00 hrs, the amazing SY Philippine Siren is only a 10 minute car ride from there. A SY Philippine Siren representative will wait for you at the arrivals terminal and escort you to the boat where a boat orientation will be given. Dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-7
The Visayas offer some of the best diving in the Philippines. You will dive on colourful reefs teeming with marine life. Some great wall dives will be planned near Cabilao and the diversity of macro life at Dauin such as sailfin gobies and radial filefish, but also healthy soft and hard corals, schools of fish, turtles feeding on corals, bumphead wrasse at Apo Island, and always a chance to encounter a large pelagic whale shark at Oslob.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day. Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 8
Disembarkation is in Moalboal at around 10:00 hrs, after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred back to Cebu, a 4 hour drive, if previously arranged. Please note that these trips sometimes run in reverse - check above for port details.
Malapascua, Cebu, Bohol & Dumaguete (11 Days / 10 Nights - 33 Dives)
Trip highlights: whale sharks, hammerhead sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers
Dive sites and activities: Malapascua: Monad Shoal, Chocolate Island, Kimud Shoal; Gato Island, Moalboal: Pescador, Panagsama Beach, Tongo Point, Turtle Bay, Dolphin House; Oslob, Apo Island: Coconut Point, Rocky Point West, Cogon; Dauin, Balicasag: Diver's Heaven, Black Forest; Cabilao: Gorgonian Wall, Lighthouse, Talisay Tree, Cambaquiz
Day 1
You will be picked up from Mactan International Airport in Cebu and after a short car ride (10-15 minutes) you will be onboard the SY Philippine Siren. Your flight should arrive no later than 12:00 hrs. A boat orientation will be given and dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-10
The Visayas offer some of the best diving in the Philippines. You will dive on colourful reefs teeming with marine life and have unforgettable encounters with thresher sharks while at Malapascua. Some great wall dives will be planned near Cabilao and the diversity of macro life at Dauin such as sailfin gobies and radial filefish. There are healthy soft and hard corals, schools of fish, turtles feeding on corals, bumphead wrasse at Apo Island, and always a chance to encounter a large pelagic whale shark at Oslob.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day. Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 11
Disembarkation is in Cebu after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred back to the airport or any local hotel you might have booked in the area around Mactan Island, Cebu City and Mandaue City in Cebu.
Southern Leyte, Malapascua, Cebu & Bohol (11 Days / 10 Nights - 33 Dives)
Trip highlights: whale sharks, hammerhead sharks, shark action, manta rays, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers
Dive sites and activities: Southern Leyte: Sogod Bay - Napantao Fish Sanctuary, Santa Paz, Son-ok Point, Pintuyan, Lioan, Limasawa, Padre Burgos; Bohol: Coco White, Snappers Cave, Paradise Gardens, Balicasag; Cabilao, Malapascua: Monad Shoal, Chocolate Island
Day 1
You will be picked up from Mactan International Airport in Cebu and after a short car ride (10-15 minutes) you will be onboard the SY Philippine Siren. Your flight should arrive no later than 12:00 hrs. A boat orientation will be given and dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-10
The little visited region of Southern Leyte offer some of the best diving in the Philippines. Whale sharks visit the area to feed on blooms of zooplankton, and there are some spectacular muck and macro sites where you can explore to find such wonders as hairy frogfish, xeno crabs, stargazers, and mimic and blue-ringed octopus. Elsewhere in the Visayas you will dive on colourful reefs teeming with marine life such as turtles, triggerfish, mackerel, snappers and barracuda, and have unforgettable encounters with thresher sharks while at Malapascua.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day.
Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 11
Disembarkation is in Cebu at around 10:00 hrs, after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred back to the airport or any local hotel you might have booked in the area around Mactan Island, Cebu City and Mandaue City in Cebu.
Malapascua, Cebu & Bohol (8 Days / 7 Nights - 21 Dives)
Trip highlights: whale sharks, hammerhead sharks, shark action, dolphins, manta rays, turtles, great macro life/ marine diversity, schooling fish & big pelagics
Diving environment: advanced divers, beginner divers
Dive sites and activities: Malapascua: Monad Shoal, Chocolate Island, Kimud Shoal; Gato Island, Moalboal: Pescador, Panagsama Beach, Tongo Point, Turtle Bay, Dolphin House, Balicasag: Diver's Heaven, Black Forest; Cabilao: Gorgonian Wall, Lighthouse, Talisay Tree, Cambaquiz
Day 1
You will be picked up from Mactan International Airport in Cebu and after a short car ride (10-15 minutes) you will be onboard the SY Philippine Siren. Your flight should arrive no later than 12:00 hrs. A boat orientation will be given and dinner will be served once the cabins have been assigned. There will be no diving on this day.
Days 2-7
The Visayas offer some of the best diving in the Philippines. You will dive on colourful reefs teeming with marine life and have unforgettable encounters with thresher sharks while at Malapascua. Some great wall dives will be planned near Cabilao and there are healthy soft and hard corals, schools of fish, turtles feeding on corals, bumphead wrasse at Bohol and Moalboal.
Enjoy up to 4 dives per day, with 3 daily day dives and either a sunset or a night dive. A typical diving day starts with a light breakfast followed by a briefing and the 1st dive. A full hot breakfast and eggs cooked as you like await your return on board, then you can relax until it's time to get ready for the 2nd dive. Each meal is served buffet style in the rear deck dining area. Lunch offers at least 2 choices of chicken, fish or red meat, with salads and vegetables on the side. The 3rd afternoon dive is followed by freshly cooked snacks and fruit. Dinner is served after the last dive of the day. Evening meals are 3 courses: hot soup, main course and dessert. Some evenings you will experience some Filipino specialities or other delicacies of international cuisine. During the safari there will also be a freshly prepared BBQ. Soft drinks, fruit juices, San Miguel and Red Horse lagers are all available during the cruise.
Please note that on the final full day there are only 2 scheduled morning dives before the journey back to port.
Day 8
Disembarkation is in Cebu after a light breakfast and final farewells. You will be transferred back to the airport or any local hotel you might have booked in the area around Mactan Island, Cebu City and Mandaue City in Cebu.
[Information is best estimate in ideal circumstances and subject to changes beyond our control. The itinerary is a guide only and may be adapted to best suit the weather, tides, currents, availability and other prevailing events. Price is for the cruise, not for an exact number of dives].
