Moalboal Bay

Nothing about this dive is dramatic and that is the point. The bottom is sand between 5 and 10 m, broken up by large rocks, with minimal current over it. You descend, settle, and start covering ground slowly, because on a muck site the animals are found by looking rather than by swimming, and the boulders are where the search concentrates.

Buoyancy does the work here. Sand this shallow clouds easily and stays clouded for the rest of the dive, so hold yourself off it, keep fins high and approach the rocks from the side rather than dropping onto them. Done that way, the shallow profile is an advantage: the gas lasts, no-decompression time is not a factor, and the dive ends when you decide it does rather than when the computer does.

The bay gets used for afternoon dives and for Open Water training for the same reasons, so expect to share it with a class. The ascent is short and the safety stop is barely a change of depth, which makes this a sensible second or third tank of the day after the walls to the north.