Tropical Divers has been operating for over 20 years.

In 2017, we embarked on a new chapter in our history under the management of a like-minded team.
We are PADI certified as a 5-star dive center. Visit our Tropical Divers page on the PADI website here

Located on Panglao Island, connected by two bridges to Bohol Island in the Philippine archipelago, Tropical Divers is easily accessible.
It takes 10 minutes from Panglao Airport and 35 minutes from the seaport in Tagbilaran City to reach our center.

Tropical Divers

Diving

Variety of marine life, from a pygmy seahorse and nudibranch to a school of Barracuda and whale sharks, stunning reefscapes with hard and soft corals.

Dive sites

More than 20 dive sites to choose near Pamilacan, Cabilao, Balicasag, Panglao islands

Team

Professional PADI instructors and divemasters with more than 10 years experience in scuba diving

Team

Ian L. Macaraya

PADI OWSI#270952

Finished my Bachelor's Degree in Forestry in 2001. A mangrove specialist.
Evolved and officially became a licensed Scuba diver in 2002 where I joined a team of Marine Biologists (for six years) in implementing the establishment and monitoring of Marine protected areas in Bohol island.

Became a PADI dive master in 2010, I believe I can teach more on protection and conservation of Marine ecosystem this way. Joined the team of Tropical divers in 2012 . Became a PADI dive instructor and started teaching PADI courses in 2016 up to present.
Rufino M. Baguio (JoJo)

PADI DM#342179

I'm Rufino M. Baguio. Most of my friends call me JoJo.
I graduated in Bohol Institute of technology.
Before I get into diving i worked as a salesman of diving equipment. I did my PADI open water in 2008 and became a dive master in 2014.
I'm so blessed that my job is related to diving - that's the way I discovered another part of our planet - the underwater world.

Enough words now - Let's go diving!

Tony Frazer

PADI Master Instructor#608937

Tony has been diving since 1996 and has recorded thousands of dives all over the world, the cold waters of his Great Britain origins, the Red Sea of Egypt, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Malaysian Borneo, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the Mediterranean of Southern Spain where he operated a Dive Centre for 5 years.
He has completed over 2000 local dives since coming to Panglao in 2010, and has an extensive list of certified students to his credit.

Tony is an advocate of SAFE FUN and is passionate for the environment, and has a wealth of experience and knowledge ready to share.

A permanent resident of the Philippines married to a Filipina Divemaster.
Nick Zotov

PADI OWSI#609149

I was born, lived for a long time and worked in Chelyabinsk, Russia. Member of PADI since 1998. I started diving after the army in 1995, was engaged in speleology and cave diving. I was a pioneer in the right siphon and participated in the discovery of the Chelyabinsk passage in famous Orda cave.

Between 2000 and 2017, I organized and conducted more than 70 diving trips in such countries as Egypt, Sudan, Malaysia, Thailand, Burma, the Philippines, Australia, Cuba, Mexico, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Palau and others. Trained more than 500 people.

In 2017 I moved to the Philippines, Bohol Island, Panglao.

Reviews
tripadvizor.com

Amazing dive resort! The equipment, boat, and resort were all very clean and well organized. I'm from Ireland and had no issues communicating with them as everyone spoke very good English and are also incredibly friendly and helpful.
I haven't gone diving for 3 years due to COVID and Jojo, one of the divemasters, was very patient with me and made sure I was safe and comfortable during our check dive.
I would definitely recommend Tropical Divers to divers of all levels and am looking forward to diving with them again!

Sasha Cassidy
Thanks to tropical divers team we experienced the most vivid emotions and learned to dive.
We look forward to our next meeting with divers and studying new course.
Great thank
Alex and Dora.

Alexey Borovlyov
Stop searching now! This dive center is your must-have PADI center in Bohol. After we arrived of our delayed boat from Cebu, the dive center was unfortunately closed. We wanted to dive the next day, so I sent them a message through Facebook. The boss, Nick, replied in 15 min to tell us we could join the boat tomorrow.
After our first 2 dives and meeting our Dive master, Tony (a fantastic British bloke of 76 with more then 20 years of diving experience and 3600 dives logged), we were convinced and instantly booked our advanced open water course. Which was cheap!!
During our course, Tony keeps you extra relaxed and tells you all about the area and what to watch out for. Be sure to ask him about his views on global warming, surfing a whale shark and pre-tips on finding a Filipino girlfriend. You'll be amazed! He is funny as hell!
A no brainer! BOOK NOW!

Hans B
My experience getting the OWC with Ian from Tropical Divers was amazing.
Ian's patient and calming demeanor enabled me to overcome my long standing fear of deep water.
Ian took the time to explain each scenario above water and made me comfortable under water to perform them myself. He is native to Bohol with well over 200 dives in local area.
Highly recommend!!

roadie70

Contact us

Contacts

+63 929 345 0506
tropicaldiversalona@gmail.com

Kalipayan road, Panglao, Bohol, Philippines