Momo Beach is a gently sloping reef on Panglao's north coast, published at 5 to 25 m, mixing wall and slope with hard and soft coral and a lot of fish. It sits on the road trip that also takes in Napaling and Doljo, and it is the easy dive of that day — nothing deep, nothing technical, just a healthy stretch of north-coast reef away from the Alona boats.
Where it is and how deep
9.6015° N, 123.7517° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.
The dive
The ground here is a mixture rather than one shape: a gentle slope in places, a low wall in others, with hard and soft coral across both and plenty of fish over it. Published at 5 to 25 m, it is a dive you can run entirely to your own plan — go along the deeper edge if you want the soft coral, or stay up on the slope where the light is better and the reef fish thicker.
It is the quiet member of Panglao's north-coast trio. Napaling has the sardines and Doljo has the fans and the depth, so Momo tends to be dived third, when the tanks are getting light and nobody wants another 40 m wall. That is not a criticism of the reef, which is in good condition and holds turtles and a long macro list, but it does explain why it takes so little traffic.
Because it is reached by road rather than by boat from Alona, it fits into the day differently from the south-coast sites: van out with the tanks, three dives along the north coast, back for dinner. It is also an option when the south coast is chopped up by the wind and the Alona boats are staying in.
Marine life and season
- Reef fish swarms
- Nudibranchs
- Pristine corals
- Sea turtles
- Macro critters
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Good | Fair | Fair | Fair | Good | Prime | Prime |
Season follows Panglao: Nov–Jun is the main season; the south-west monsoon and typhoons disrupt Jul–Oct, though the sheltered south coast keeps working through much of it.
Dive videos
Alone in Momo Beach, Panglao,Bohol | Pandemic Dive | Scuba Diving | Dive Philippines · Ambalea Divers_Bohol on YouTube
Questions divers ask
How deep is Momo Beach?+
Operators publish it at 5 to 25 m — a gentle slope and low wall well inside recreational limits, so the depth is entirely a matter of what you want to look at.
How do you dive Momo Beach?+
It is on Panglao's north coast and reached by road from Alona, normally as part of a day that also takes in Napaling and Doljo, rather than as a boat trip from the beach.
Sources
- Dive Sites & Map Of Bohol — Sierra Madre Divers
- The Best of Panglao Dive Sites — Valm Divers Bohol
- Momo Beach — Scubago
More dive sites in Panglao
Wall
A chimney through the wall, 18 m in and 8 m out
Reef
Ghost pipefish and pygmy seahorses on a calm coral slope
A turtle point about 10 m under a shallow reef cliff
Wall
A drifted wall from 5 m to 25 m, minutes from Alona
Wall
A vertical wall of huge gorgonians on Panglao's quietest corner
Wall
Table corals over a wall running 25 to 40 metres
Wreck
A dive boat on the sand at 37 m, a kilometre off Alona Beach
Reef
Panglao's critter slope, five minutes off Alona Beach
Similar dives elsewhere
The protected shallows where Balicasag's turtles are thickest
Dense stands of red whip gorgonians tangled with crinoids
Banded sea kraits crawling openly over a sunken plateau
A no-take reef since 1982, with turtles on nearly every dive