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 Visayas, located in the middle of the Philippines, sports a plethora of excellent dive spots while also enjoying a microclimate that allows for diving year round. Joining a liveaboard dive cruise is one the best possible ways to explore such a scattering of sites which would otherwise require island hoping between numerous islands.

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.

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.