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Crystal Blue Resort: "Excellent diving, emphasis on photographers, better service if big SLR", Oct, 2019, by Susan Molchan, MD, US ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 10 Helpful votes). Report 11340 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Beautiful resort with excellent food, very helpful staff. Camera room is amazing, temp controlled and over a dozen stations set up with power source. It’s definitely a photographers resort as advertised. That said, if you don’t have a seriously large camera system, divemasters make less of an effort, and the manager also caters more to those w cameras —plans for a black water dive for my buddy and I (and others) were dropped to accommodate others on a night dive. The black water was re-scheduled but it when the dive master kept going deep (to burn air to get out soon? ) That was my impression any way. I usually stay 20 -40 ft on black waters unless a reason. When we hit sand at 70 feet it was clear it wasn’t a black water dive at all. We saw an interesting octopus and jelly’s, a few cool juvenile fish. Beautiful reefs especially around Sombrero Island. Some wear and tear from divers and to see divers—inevitably Japanese-- literally laying on coral (3 of them across one large formation—elbows, legs—all pointing cameras to some small creature in the middle of them was very disturbing to US divers. They grabbed prices of live coral to steady themselves on the wall. No divemaster was concerned about this and did nothing to stop it. There was also a fair amount of plastic wrapper trash in the water. It soon became clear that there was too much to make a difference if you pick up a few pieces so no one was. Lots of nudis, varieties of sea cucumbers, frogfish, pipefish (the mushroom coral pipefish my fav, and other really cool critters—hairy mauve little squat lobsters. Cool wreck w leaf fish, large batfish school
Websites	Crystal Blue Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Fiji, Maldives, Galapagos, Palau, Yap, all over Caribbean & FLorida, NC
Closest Airport	Manila	Getting There	4 hour drive from airport, hotel shuttle
Dive Conditions
Weather	dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-83°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	40-80 Ft/ 12-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	[None]No rinse buckets on boats

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Dive Review of Crystal Blue Resort in Philippines

Crystal Blue Resort: "Excellent diving, emphasis on photographers, better service if big SLR", Oct, 2019,

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Dive Review of Crystal Blue Resort in
Philippines