Dapia

Dapia is listed as a Davao-area dive site in a South Shore Divers contribution to PADI. This partial guide uses the site name and map position from that source. The location has not been independently confirmed by a local diver.

This is the PADI-named Dapia dive site. A historical OSM reef polygon is location context, not a dive entry or independent point confirmation.

Current access, entry arrangements, depth limits, currents, visibility and seasonal conditions remain unconfirmed. Confirm the exact site, current local conditions and a suitable dive plan with a local operator.

What the sources say about Dapia

PADI's dive-site page for Dapia, fetched in October 2026, places the site "in Talikud Island, Davao" and describes "a shallow coral garden with a sandy bottom" where divers may see "clownfish, angelfish, and damselfish". It gives a maximum depth of "only 10 meters", calls the site "suitable for beginners and snorkelers", lists boat entry and the dive types reef and ocean, names PADI Open Water Diver as useful training, and suggests a dive computer and surface marker buoy. The listed position is 6.96413, 125.69859, the point this guide uses. The page is a short catalogue description and its figures have not been confirmed locally.

Asia Dive Site's Talikud Island page, undated, mentions the site under a slightly different name: after describing Mansud Wall to the north of the island, it says, "Closeby, are Talisay Wall and Dapia Reef. The opportunity to see larger marine life is better here and there are regular sightings of barracuda, tuna and jacks." That sentence covers the Mansud, Talisay and Dapia cluster together, so it is not a Dapia-only observation. The same page gives Talikud-wide figures of 5-38 m depth, visibility of 15 m or more, moderate currents and best months November to May; these are island-wide, not Dapia figures. Islands Philippines carries the identical paragraph, so the two pages are one lineage.

A When In Manila article by Blogie Robillo dated January 31, 2015 says "Coral walls feature in many of Samal's dive sites" and names Dapia among them, alongside Dizon Wall, Mansuod, Balet, Maxima, Mushroom Rock, Big Liguid and Aundanao. That sits uneasily with PADI's shallow coral garden to 10 meters; whether the two names refer to the same place, or to a reef and an adjacent wall, is not resolved here. SunStar Davao's June 5, 2022 report on the Samal Dive Festival named "Dapia Reef" among Samal's 25 diving sites. The DivePlanner Pro aggregator repeats the ten-meter figure but mirrors PADI's data and is not counted as an independent source. No dated dive log for Dapia itself was found in this review.