The dive site in Ligid Island is the first site of the Island Garden City of Samal that passed the assessment made by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR XI). Ligid Dive Site is backed by an ordinance of the city government of Samal City as guide on what to do and what not to do in the assigned site.

Based on the assessment the ground is host to rich and healthy rocks and corrals where school of fish of different varieties abound as well as their spawning ground.

The resources underneath is what we want to be protected that is why the city government has to passed an ordinance to regulate the usage of the site,” DENR official Manny Isip said.

He however said that there are still many potential dive sites in Samal where two are found in Kaputian both facing the Pacific Ocean and declared by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquartic Resources as fish sanctuaries.

The other two designated dive sites in the Davao Region that also passed government assesssment are found in Maco and the Copiat Island of Mabini all in Compostela Valley Province. (Photo by WOW Philippines)