Bay Subic Bay, located on the island of Luzon, has always attracted attention as a successful location of military bases. In 1885, the first military base was built here the Spaniards. However, after a couple of years of control of the Philippines went to the Americans, and they took this place. During World War II, the Japanese were able to capture the Subic Bay, but immediately after the end of the Americans returned and restored on the shores of the Gulf's largest military base outside the United States. Only in 1992, the Philippine government decided to shut down all over the country, American base, and the Stars and Stripes on the Subic Bay was launched. Today the bay is primarily attracts divers from all over the world who come here in search of sunken ships since the Spanish-American War and World War II. You can get to the Gulf of Manila - the road goes from 2, 5 to 3, 5 hours.

Among the most popular dive sites in the Gulf - the remains of a Japanese merchant ship "Oreck Maru", known as "hell ship". The ship was converted to transport prisoners and workers, the Japanese exported from the occupied territories. In 1944 it was sunk by the Americans - on board were more than 1, 5 thousand people. After the war, the US military divers blew up the ship for the purpose of safety of navigation.

Another interesting ship, resting on the bottom of the Gulf of Subic Bay - cruiser "New York", built in 1891. Over the years, he took part in the Chinese revolution, the Philippine-American and First World War. Since the late 1930s, the cruiser was in the bay, but with the beginning of World War II was sunk by the Americans, who feared that the ship's weapons may fall into the hands of the Japanese. Today, on board the "New York" you can see colonies of groupers, lobsters and barracudas krylatok.

Another popular dive spot - the ship "El Capitan", whose nose is located at a depth of 5 meters. And the oldest ship in the flooded waters of the Gulf, is a Spanish gunboat "San Quintin" - she was sent to the bottom in 1898, the Spaniards, who tried so close to American warships passage between the islands of the Gulf. In addition to ships in Subic Bay, you can see the remains of the jet F-4 "Phantom". And, of course, do not take place, but rather swim past the coral reefs - are especially good near the island of Grande and the Gulf of Triboa.

Rest on the shore of the Bay of Subic Bay Manila residents like to come - in addition to diving, you can simply relax on the sandy beaches, visit the underwater aquarium, take a tour of the mangroves or go to numerous shopping malls format duty-free. Lovers of wildlife will also be something to do in Subic Bay - among the animals living here can be found the smallest Philippine bat - bamboo and golden-domed flying foxes, giant fruit bat and wild boars, rare species of Asian monkeys and some 300 bird species!