Nanshin Maru wreck (Black island beach)
Dive site · Philippines
Is it worth the trip?
84Good out of 100 for your dates
2 days tie for best
Tue 3 · 85 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.2 mflat
- Wind
- 2 kn
- Gusts
- 8kn
- Air
- 29°C
Wed 4 · 85 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.2 mflat
- Wind
- 0 kn
- Gusts
- 4kn
- Air
- 31°C
Thu 5 · 84 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.2 mflat
- Wind
- 3 kn
- Gusts
- 6kn
- Air
- 30°C
Fri 6 · 84 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.2 mflat
- Wind
- 3 kn
- Gusts
- 5kn
- Air
- 30°C
Sat 7 · 84 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.2 mflat
- Wind
- 3 kn
- Gusts
- 11kn
- Air
- 30°C
Sun 8 · 83 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.3 m
- Wind
- 6 kn
- Gusts
- 13kn
- Air
- 30°C
Mon 9 · 83 out of 100
- Sea
- 0.3 m
- Wind
- 6 kn
- Gusts
- 16kn
- Air
- 31°C
Tap a day for sea, wind and water. Full forecast
Forecast: next 10 days
Full forecast- Tue 385, good
- Wed 485, good
- Thu 584, good
- Fri 684, good
- Sat 784, good
- Sun 883, good
- Mon 983, good
- Tue 1083, good
- Wed 1183, good
- Thu 1285, good
The site in three facts
- Open Waterand up
- Water 30 °Crash vest or 1 to 2 mm
- Faces NEswell from there reaches it
Full forecast
every day, every number
The score doesn't know currents, the visibility on the day or your certification.
Suits Open Water divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.
| Day | Score | Sea | Wind | Gusts | Air |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 3Nov | 85, good | 0.2 mflat | 2 kn | 8kn | 29°C |
| Wed 4Nov | 85, good | 0.2 mflat | 0 kn | 4kn | 31°C |
| Thu 5Nov | 84, good | 0.2 mflat | 3 kn | 6kn | 30°C |
| Fri 6Nov | 84, good | 0.2 mflat | 3 kn | 5kn | 30°C |
| Sat 7Nov | 84, good | 0.2 mflat | 3 kn | 11kn | 30°C |
| Sun 8Nov | 83, good | 0.3 m | 6 kn | 13kn | 30°C |
| Mon 9Nov | 83, good | 0.3 m | 6 kn | 16kn | 31°C |
| Tue 10Nov | 83, good | 0.4 m | 5 kn | 10kn | 31°C |
| Wed 11Nov | 83, good | 0.4 m | 5 kn | 11kn | 30°C |
| Thu 12Nov | 85, good | – | 5 kn | 10kn | 31°C |
Sea is the waves near the site, in metres; wind and gusts in knots. "Boats in": gusts that keep dive boats in. More
Tide
- Tue 3 NovHigh 03:10 +0.6 mLow 12:33 −0.5 m
- Wed 4 NovHigh 04:46 +0.5 mLow 13:18 −0.4 mHigh 20:45 +0.1 m
- Thu 5 NovLow 00:28 +0.1 mHigh 06:30 +0.3 mLow 13:53 −0.3 mHigh 20:28 +0.2 m
Local clock times; heights about mean sea level. On open coasts the times are usually within a quarter of an hour; in bays, estuaries and on the Gulf of Mexico they can be an hour or more out. Slack water, the safest time to dive where there is current, is about half an hour either side of each high and low. Tide: EOT20 global ocean tide model, Hart-Davis et al. 2021, DGFI-TUM (doi:10.17882/79489), CC BY 4.0. Times and heights computed by us. A model, not a tide table: check a local table before you go.
Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.
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the site and its town
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About
the place in full, sources, credits
About Nanshin Maru wreck (Black island beach)
It suits Open Water divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces NE: swell from the NE reaches it, and wind from the SW blows out to sea. 1 dive centre or shop within 10 km, the nearest 8.3 km away. The sea is about 28°C in January, its coldest month (3 mm wetsuit), and 30°C in May, its warmest (rash vest or 1 to 2 mm). The town to stay in is Culion. Within 5 km we also list 1 dive site.
- What it is No source states what kind of site it is.
- How deep No source states how deep it goes.
- Who it suits Suits Open Water divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
- Dive centres 1 dive centre or shop within 10 km, the nearest 8.3 km away.
Water about 30°C: rash vest or 1 to 2 mm. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.
Visibility about 20 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Apr, May, Jun, Sep, Oct, Nov and Dec (about 20 m).
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Where to stay: Culion
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about 1h 05m by car · 8 places to stay
about US$40/nightcountry average
About Culion its beds, food and every spot near it
About US$40 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 2 November 2026.
Getting there
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In the water
Dives and courses in Culion · GetYourGuideDive gear hire in Culion · GetYourGuide
Dive centres nearby
Sea dive Extension 8.3 km
Pirate Divers 20 km
D’Divers 23 km
The nearest named dive centres and shops within 25 km, in a straight line; training agencies where the map states them. Listings, not a recommendation. Dive centres: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Credits
What you might see
Too few records at this site itself, so these are the animals divers and surveys have recorded at other sites within 25 km in the last 15 years. A record says someone saw it there, not that you will.
Pteraeolidia semperiNudibranch
Seen in 3 records.
Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO) and GBIF.org (1 November 2026, doi:10.15468/dl.jeesns), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS and GBIF; common names from the Catalogue of Life, the GBIF Backbone and Wikidata. Largest datasets here: iNaturalist Research-grade Observations; A photographically-vouchered global citizen science dataset of sea slugs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia) from the SEASLUG.WORLD platform since 2015. Credits
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