A great way to explore the huge fleet of Japanese WWII shipwrecks of Coron Bay is to make a safari, sleeping some nights on board your boat and others at one or other of the boutique resorts that are scattered around the Calamian Islands.

The Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef and a Natural Marine Park in Sulu Sea, Philippines, composing of two huge atolls and the smaller Jessie Beazley Reef. It is considered to one of the world's top 8 dive sites.

The northern liveaboard route takes you to the best dive spots between the south of Luzon Island, the Philippines' largest island and home to the capital, Manila, and the north of Palawan, the finger-shaped island that points down to Borneo.