Odie's Wall

Puerto Galera's best deep-recreational wall sits out west on the Manila Channel approach, away from the Escarceo circuit entirely. A blue-water descent lands divers at about 25 metres in open water facing a rocky face roughly eight metres high, which slopes away to 33 metres; beyond it the reef runs on to around 42 for divers watching their gas. The face is upholstered in oversized gorgonian fans in deep purple and burnt orange, with black coral trees and barrel sponges absent from the shallower reefs. Turquoise clouds of redtooth triggerfish work the cracks and holes. Run it as a drift, on nitrox, with a deep specialty, and treat the current as something that can set downward off the point as readily as across it.