{"id":399,"date":"2016-10-10T22:58:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queencitycebu.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T08:09:28","slug":"yellow-submarine-cebu-now-boracay-submarine-1st-way-ride-submarine-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queencitycebu.com\/yellow-submarine-cebu-now-boracay-submarine-1st-way-ride-submarine-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Submarine Cebu (now Boracay Submarine) – The 1st & Only Way to Ride a Submarine in the Philippines!"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Yellow Submarine is the first and only way civilians can actually ride a submarine in the Philippines! This definitely one of a kind experience started in the beaches of Mactan, Cebu in March, 2013. After having operated in Cebu for about 3 years, the Yellow Submarine has become synonymous to the many tourist attractions of Cebu.<\/p>\n
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However, little did we know the Yellow Submarine Cebu business has actually moved on to Boracay from the start of 2016 and it has aptly adopted the name, Boracay Submarine.<\/p>\n
We couldn’t get a comment from the operators of the submarine tour business on the reason for the move however, if we do a little digging around, we can see published news sources saying the Mayor of Mactan has ordered the business to run citing a Youtube video showing the submarine actually hitting and damaging a coral reef – a big nono for us and thankfully, for Mayor Paz Radaza of Mactan as well. This as well as the lack of some required permits from various government agencies could have led to them closing in Mactan. Details on this are on the Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Further researched has brought us to a Tripadvisor review by user “scobyphils” that says the tour actually harasses our poor fish friends under the sea. Here’s a screenshot for reference:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Of course there’s a chance that this user is not telling the truth right? So we dug even deeper and found this photo from Tripadvisor:<\/p>\n