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El Nido Dive Operators: What We Could Verify (2026)

Not a ranking and not a recommendation. Every dive and snorkel operator on El Nido that appears in the Green Fins register, showing for each one what an independent source confirms, what the operator asserts about itself, and what we could not find in any register we know of. No operator paid to be listed.

How to read the labels. checked in a register a register or authority states it, and we opened it on the date shown. operator says so the operator states it, and the via line says where we read it: their own site, their agency profile, or a reply to our email. Evidence of what they claim, not that it is true. not verified we could not check it, and we say so rather than leave the field out.

What this list actually shows

7 operators in the register on 2026-08-12.
7 hold Certified membership, meaning an in-person assessment within the last 12 months.
0 hold Digital membership, a self-evaluation with no minimum standard to pass.
0 publish which languages their instructors teach in. It is the field readers ask for most and the one almost nobody fills in.
0 could be checked for insurance. No public register carries it.

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Why some fields read "not published" on every card below. These reasons are the same for every operator here, so they are stated once rather than repeated 7 times:

Instructor languages. No agency profile we could reach, and no register publishes instructor languages. A website language switcher is a fact about the website, not about the staff.
Insurance. No public register of operator insurance exists for Philippines.
Licence. No tourism business licence number published on the operator's own site, and the Philippines register cannot be queried by operator name from here.
Staff on the roster. No staff breakdown published for this operation.
Training agency. Not stated in a form we could read. Several of these sites render their content with JavaScript we do not execute, so this is absence of a reading, not absence of an affiliation.

Where a reason differs for one operator, it is on that card instead.

In the table: REG a register or authority states it and we opened it. SAYS the operator states it, on their site or their agency profile: evidence of the claim, not that it is true. — nobody publishes it. Open a row for the source and the date.

Operator	Green Fins	Assessment	Agency	Instructor languages	Licence
Go Paradise Travel & Tours	Silver ≤150 REG	in person	—	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Silver Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID RCP45. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website did not respond on 2026-08-12, which may be the site or may be us
Krischana travel and tours	Silver ≤150 REG	in person	—	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Silver Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID ZGN60. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website (a social media page, which blocks automated checks, so we confirmed only that the register carries this address)
Leatherback Travel and Cruise	Silver ≤150 REG	in person	—	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Silver Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID NYL32. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website (a social media page, which blocks automated checks, so we confirmed only that the register carries this address)
Tarawis El Nido Island Tours	Silver ≤150 REG	in person	PADI SAYS	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Silver Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID OPL71. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Training agency. Names PADI on its own homepage, which is a claim and not a membership we could look up. operator says so via the operator's own website, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website
Dou’s Hermanos Travel and Tour	Bronze ≤200 REG	in person	—	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Bronze Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID WDD99. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website (a social media page, which blocks automated checks, so we confirmed only that the register carries this address)
Happiness Travel and Tours	Bronze ≤200 REG	in person	—	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Bronze Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID FDG35. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website
Spider Travel and Tours	Bronze ≤200 REG	in person	—	—	—
Source, dates and detail Green Fins. Certified Bronze Member, assessed in-person, within the last 12 months. Register ID VAE76. checked in a register via Green Fins member register, checked 2026-08-12 Website. website (a social media page, which blocks automated checks, so we confirmed only that the register carries this address)

What this directory refuses to tell you

Insurance. No public register of operator liability cover exists for Philippines, so any directory claiming to have checked it is quoting the operator back to you. Guide ratios and in-water practice. The Green Fins assessment covers environmental impact, not supervision. Instructor languages, where they are blank. A blank means no answer yet, not that nobody there speaks your language. It is the most commonly invented field in this industry, and a website language switcher is not evidence for it: that tells you a translator was hired once, not who is on the boat this season.

The list can only contain operators who joined Green Fins. A shop that never applied is absent, and absence here says nothing about it. Operators the register places at El Nido, Palawan. Most also sell island-hopping tours, which sit outside the Green Fins dive assessment entirely.

Corrections and removals. If you operate one of these businesses and a field is wrong, write to us with the document and we will correct it and date the correction. We will not remove a factual register entry on request, and we do not accept payment for a listing, an ordering or a badge. If that ever changes it will be declared here and on the disclosure page before the first paid listing appears.

What this page is, and is not. This is independent research, written by the operator of this site and not reviewed by a lawyer. It is not a substitute for training, and listing an operator is not a safety endorsement: we have not dived with these businesses, inspected their equipment or watched their briefings. Diving carries risk that no register removes. Where this page mentions cover it is not insurance advice: we state only that no public register exists, which is a fact about registers, not about any operator’s policy. Every field carries the date it was checked; verify anything that matters with the operator and the authority before you rely on it.

Sources

Green Fins member register (Reef-World Foundation with the UN Environment Programme). Queried through its store locator at 11.2/119.42, radius 40 km, filtered to El Nido. greenfins.net, checked 2026-08-12.
Green Fins membership definitions. A Certified Member "received an in-person assessment from a Green Fins assessor within the last 12 months" and is scored out of 330 where lower is better: Gold to 50, Silver to 150, Bronze to 200. A Digital Member self-evaluates, and "Digital Members do not have to pass a minimum requirement", on a separate scale to 10 running the other way, so the two scores cannot be compared. Certified, Digital, checked 2026-08-12.
PADI dive shop profiles at apps.padi.com for instructor languages and staff counts, read where the operation publishes a store number we could find and has filled those fields in. Most have done neither, which is why that column is thin rather than absent.
Operator websites, read on 2026-08-12 for the self-declared fields only. Of the 7 addresses the register carries, 0 are dead, 4 are social media pages that refuse automated checks, and 1 refused us for other reasons. Each is marked on its own card rather than quietly dropped or called dead.
Our own El Nido guide for the place itself, and how to get certified while travelling for choosing a course.

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