About Revisions Verde Island Dive Site Verde Island, Mindoro, Philippines More Info Max Depth: 141-150ft/43-46m Average Viz: Under 5ft/2m Entry Type: Boat Bottom Composition: Coral Aquatic Life: Plenty To See Summer: 76-80°F/24-27°C 9/14/2014 10:14 AM nudibranch18

Dive the Verde island passage, called the “Center of the center of marine bio-diversity.” by Drs. Kent Carpenter (Old Dominion University, Va.) and Victor Springer ( National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian institution). Scientists have established the fact that the entire Indo-Malay-Philippine Archipelago has extreme marine biodiversity, but in a study concluded in 2004, both eminent biologists concluded that the passage, which spans the famous dive destinations of Anilao, Puerto Galera and Verde Island as having a higher concentration of species per unit area in the Philippines than anywhere in the world.