INDO-PACIFIC
Gato Island
- Philippines
- Intermediate
- November - May
Plan your dive
- Experience level
- Intermediate
- Depth guide
- Tunnel and wall 12-25 m
- When to go
- November - May
- Site type
- Island Reef
Featured wildlife
- Whitetip reef shark
- Green turtle
- Giant trevally
- Reef manta ray
About this dive site
Sea snake tunnel and white-tip reef sharks near Malapascua.
Gato Island is a marine reserve north of Malapascua with a famous underwater tunnel, sea snakes and resting whitetip sharks. Current can run; boats from Maya or Malapascua run it as a full-day trip.
Gato’s tunnel needs good buoyancy; sea snakes are venomous — look, do not touch.