Coron Adventure Diving: Wrecks, Caves, Lakes! Trip Report (Jan 21-22)

[ishbaby]

im sure Chip wouldn't mind.

Moonski, will inquire more about it . . just PM'd you. Pero parang bitin ung 2 day dive to see all the wrecks there no? If we could stay longer, say 3 days? How much do you think it would go. hmm.

 

[ishbaby]

Okay, a couple of wreck pics. Maybe someone else has some that show more.

Hmm really bad viz nga.

 

[pakman]

Ah found my old pics from my Coron 99 trip. sorry no uw camera then...

Here's that cool seaplane...

And Ishbaby, here's the Asian Spirit plane at the wonderful busuanga international airport (after they shooed away the goats from the landing strip). Shugar, sorry no exotic animals but a domesticated rooster... no zulus there as well to greet us...

halthron - yeah looks like you guys had the same kind of viz I had on my trip. great wrecks though and still worth the trip!

edit: I hope they improved the road from the airport to Coron. That was the most bone jarring jeepney ride of my life...

edit2: BTW, that exact plane crashed in Manila bay some years ago...

 

[ishbaby]

thank you pakman for the WONDERFUL info.

 

[pakman]

My friends flew Asian Spirit last year to Coron from Manila and their plane landed safely...

 

[jonix]

My friends flew Asian Spirit last year to Coron from Manila and their plane landed safely...

they're still flesh and blood? not spirits? hehehehe

 

[Kim]

That sea-plane looks like it's half way to being a dive point!

 

[ishbaby]

My friends flew Asian Spirit last year to Coron from Manila and their plane landed safely...

well, they better land safely!

We'll see about the plane if the cost won't be such a pain.

I wanna go home but it's still so damn traffic out . . . haaaay.

 

[pakman]

That sea-plane looks like it's half way to being a dive point!

my thoughts too. if they could drag it out a bit, it would make a great shallow wreck dive. But I think it's located in front of a boat channel... I thought I remembered Gunther, the owner of Disco Divers, mentioning they were thinking of doing something with it...

Oh BTW, did anyone of you guys who were in Coron this weekend see the big "merong, pak was here, merong" I painted on the side of the wreck?

 

[Mike Veitch]

my thoughts too. if they could drag it out a bit, it would make a great shallow wreck dive. But I think it's located in front of a boat channel... I thought I remembered Gunther, the owner of Disco Divers, mentioning they were thinking of doing something with it...

Oh BTW, did anyone of you guys who were in Coron this weekend see the big "merong, pak was here, merong" I painted on the side of the wreck?

Dude, you sure that wasn't on a coral head? ha ha ha ha ha

I had some great Asian Spirit rides into and out of Caticlan!

Halthron: how deep are the wrecks?