Intermedio Dive Site

Overview

Intermedio Dive Site sits near the Lumayag Sandbar in Barangay Baybayon, Mabini, Bohol, in the waters off eastern Bohol facing the Camotes Sea. At the time of the source document, the site was still under formal evaluation by a multi-agency team — the Coast Guard Station Eastern Bohol, BPEMO (Bohol Provincial Environment and Management Office), PDRRMO, DENR, BFAR, PADO, and the Mabini Tourism Office — which places this as an emerging dive site rather than a commercially developed one.

Location

Barangay Baybayon, Mabini, Bohol. Mabini is a coastal municipality on the eastern side of Bohol, fronting the Camotes Sea. The site is near the Lumayag Sandbar, which serves as a navigational and positional reference point.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, travel east toward Mabini (approximately 60–70 km via the Jagna–Mabini road). From Mabini town, boat access to Baybayon and the sandbar area is required for the dive site. The nearby Lumayag (also spelled Limadjag) Sandbar in the same barangay is an established, separately-visited tourist attraction, which confirms Baybayon has existing local boat traffic and bangka operators, though none were found in search results as specifically running trips to the Intermedio dive site itself.

[TO ENRICH: specific boat hire points and travel time to the dive site from shore — no independently verifiable source describing this dive site specifically (as opposed to the neighbouring sandbar) was found.]

Practical Info

• Status: Site is under active assessment by provincial and national agencies — commercial dive operations may be limited
• [FACT NEEDED: current access conditions, whether recreational diving is permitted pending assessment completion — no source beyond the original provincial inventory entry was found describing this site.]
• Best months: December–April (calmer seas on the eastern Bohol coast)
• Avoid: July–September (typhoon season; eastern Bohol exposed to Pacific-facing weather systems)
• Nearby reference point: Lumayag Sandbar
• Related site: Kambaki Dive Site (also in Mabini)

What to Expect

The site’s position next to the Lumayag Sandbar points to a shallow-to-moderate depth profile, consistent with a sandbar-adjacent reef rather than a wall or drop-off. Eastern Bohol’s waters see far less dive traffic than the Panglao–Balicasag corridor to the south, which cuts both ways: the reef systems here have had less pressure from divers, but the area also has less of the mooring, guide, and boat infrastructure that corridor has built up. The multi-agency assessment now underway is effectively step one toward changing that.

[TO ENRICH: depth profile, marine life inventory, coral condition, visibility range, current strength — a genuine search turned up general Mabini/Batangas (Luzon) dive-site directories and Lumayag Sandbar visitor content, but nothing describing this specific Bohol dive site’s underwater conditions.]

Notes

• The multi-agency assessment process (Coast Guard, DENR, BFAR, BPEMO) reflects the provincial government’s intention to develop the eastern Bohol coast as a secondary dive destination beyond Panglao.
• Kambaki Dive Site nearby is at a similar development stage.
• Note for editors: “Mabini” is also the name of a well-known dive destination in Batangas, Luzon (unrelated municipality) — search results are dominated by that Batangas location; no confusion should be introduced into this Bohol entity.