Bangkas and liveaboards supply tanks. Visitors bring conservative rec kit, a SMB, and, on wreck weeks, a light and a cutter. Sleeves handle sun on long crossings.
A drone over a sanctuary or a wreck is a permit problem.
Core kit
- SMB and reel — Seamounts, walls, wreck shotlines.
- Light and cutter (Coron) — Holds are dark and lined with the past.
- Computer — Wrecks and Tubbataha walls jump depth.
- Rash top — Bangka sun.
- Card and log — Liveaboards and wreck boats check them.
- Park or sanctuary receipt — Listed as kit.
Optional
- Nitrox — Common on Tubbataha and Coron stacks.
- Pointer — Muck sand, not coral.
- Hood for dawn Monad Shoal — Wind on the shoal.
- Dry bag for island hops — The trip is a bangka.
Care
- Rinse wreck silt — Coron eats zippers.
- Service lights — The failure is in a hold.
- No relics, no coral — Grave and sanctuary law.
- Dry O-rings in humidity — They fail in paradise folklore.
Budget bands
- Apo / Panglao week — Bangka, mask, park fee.
- Coron wreck week — Course, light, cutter.
- Tubbataha liveaboard — The berth is the cost.
- Skip — A penetration reel as a first-day souvenir.
Spend on the season that matches the park. The sanctuary shallows are already the product.