In October 2025 I did a two week long dive trip to the Philippines with my friend John. We spent both weeks at Anilao staying at Buceo Anilao Dive Resort.

There are dozens of dive sites located within 20 minutes run from the resort.

When we visited the first time in 2023, unfortunately we had a Super Typhoon hit the northern Philippines when we were there, so the Coast Guard banned all boats and diving later in the week. As such, there were many sites we could not visit till this later trip.

Sepoc Wall is located about seven kilometres west-north-west from the resort on the northern tip of Marikaban Island. A GPS mark for the dive spot is 13° 41' 15.515"N 120° 49' 37.178"E (using WGS84 as the datum).

A satellite photo from Google Earth that shows the location of the dive site which is to the north of the name Sepoc Point. Buceo Anilao Resort way off to the right

The site is on the northern side of a sand spit that joins a large rock to the main island. The dive boat anchors close in near the shore. The bottom is about 6 metres deep here. Once in the water, we went west over a small wall to 12 metres and then gradually deeper as we went north-east. In the shallows there were lots of soft corals and soon we see a tiger pipefish.

There was a slight down current on the way and when we got to the start of the main wall, we encountered a very strong current towards us, so we did not do the wall. As for all sites at Anilao, there were thousands of niger (blue) triggerfish here and also a large titan triggerfish. Luckily the titan was not aggressive at all.

The start of the wall	A tiger pipefish

We turned around here and went slowly back towards the boat. Now there is no down current! We did not see many nudibranchs but there were lots of moray eels. Some crabs and shrimps were also seen and a t tiny white cuttlefish. We also saw lionfish, porcelain crabs, clownfish in anemones and a strange dancing fish I have seen before but cannot name.

There were not that many nudibranchs but heaps of niger (blue) triggerfish and plenty of moray eels. There are piles of tropical fish, some lionfish, two soft coral crabs, hairy shrimp and more. We also saw a strange fish, turns out it was a juvenile rock mover wrasse (see photograph below).

Closeup of a pufferfish	A moray eel

We end up back in the shallows and then to the boat. A very nice dive, just a pity we could not to the main part of the wall. The visibility was very good, 20 to 25 metres Water temperature was 29C in October.

MORE PHOTOGRAPHS

A small shrimp	A goby on a seawhip
Two nudibranchs	Nudibranch
Two clownfish in an anemone	A hairy shrimp on a barrel sponge