Puntod Reef

Overview

Puntod Reef is a dive site off Panglao Island, Bohol, classified by the BPTO under Nature / Dive site. The reef begins at 2 meters and slopes to roughly 20 meters, a mixed garden of soft, leathery, and stony coral. Angelfish, puffer fish, butterfly fish, and wrasse are the resident species you’d expect to see on the slope.

Location

Off Panglao Island, Panglao municipality, Bohol. The site is 35 minutes from Alona Beach by banca.

Getting There

From Alona Beach on Panglao Island, hire a banca through a dive operator or boatman. Travel time is approximately 35 minutes. [FACT NEEDED: bearing or GPS coordinates from Alona Beach; whether the site requires a guide or can be accessed independently.]

Practical Info

• Depth range: 2 m (top of reef) to approximately 20 m
• Coral type: soft, leathery, and stony corals
• Resident fish: angelfish, puffer fish, butterfly fish, wrasse
• Access: 35-minute banca ride from Alona Beach
• [FACT NEEDED: minimum certification level, current conditions, visibility averages, entry fee if any]

What to Expect

A gently sloping reef that starts shallow enough for snorkelers and extends to 20 meters for divers. The coral garden is mixed in type, with a variety of small reef fish. The site is suitable for a range of experience levels given the accessible depth profile.

Notes

• Panglao Island has multiple named dive sites; Puntod Reef is one of the BPTO-listed sites in the municipal inventory
• [FACT NEEDED: whether site is buoyed; anchoring restrictions; seasonal visibility patterns — not resolved by research]
• Naming and location cross-reference: “Puntod” (also spelled Pungtud) is the small island/sandbar between Panglao and Balicasag more commonly marketed to tourists as “Virgin Island” (see the wiesl-tours-virgin-islands and pungtud-wall-dive entities). The separate panglao-island-diving overview entity describes a “Puntod Island (southwest): 3 km southwest of Panglao Island, 35 min from Alona Beach. Coral garden starting at 2 m, sloping to 20 m; angelfish, pufferfish, butterflyfish, wrasse” — matching this entry’s depth profile and species list closely enough that Puntod Reef likely refers to the same reef.

Coordinate correction 2026-07-17: frontmatter previously read 9.850208, 124.143558 — a position far northeast of Bohol, identical to four decimal places to the (also erroneous) pre-correction coordinates on bbc-reef and wiesl-tours-virgin-islands, indicating a shared copy-paste data fault across unrelated entities. Replaced with the pungtud-wall-dive entity’s coordinate (9.558277, 123.72251), which sits in the plausible location between Alona Beach and Balicasag Island described by Virgin Island, Bohol: Sand-Bending, No Trespassing, accessed 2026-07-17. Treat as an approximation pending an independently surveyed GPS pin for Puntod Reef specifically.