Why is Philippine diving snubbed?

[mrjemm]

All these posts mention a whole bunch of sites, but none talk of Malapascua, where I was planningo to go this week. As yet I've booked nothing but my Manila flight, would somewhere else in the Philippines be a better option?

 

[Evil]

Just came back from Malapascua beginning of Jun & it was a wonderful experience...We started diving the minute we stepped onto the island! Did a sunset/nite dive as a checkout dive & I fell in love with it immediately...after that, I just cant stop asking for more! We went back to the same site again the next nite to look for Mandarin fish & seahorse & we found lots of big fat Mandarin fishes...and of course not to forget the seahorses.....

After 1 whole day of travelling & a nite dive, we had to get up at 5am the next morning & set off at 5.30am to look for thresher sharks at Monad Shoal (Shark Point). The magnificent creatures came to say hi shortly after our descend & we kept running into them throughout the dive! For the next 2 days, we just kept going back to see them every morning...1 of them got so close to my buddy that she could almost kiss the shark! Nearly got slapped by the beautiful long tail....


Other then the threshers, there're also lots of different species of nudibranch/sea slugs, seahorses everywhere, even pygmy seahorse...we also did couple of wall dives, even swam thru a cave for our last dive! For our last sunset/nite dive, we went to a beautiful dive site with a whole garden of beautiful/colourful soft corals....I even found a sea snail (calpurnus verrucosus)! Saw lots of scorpion fish, lion fish, crabs, juvenile sweetlips...

A trip worth making even if it's just for the threshers!

 

[Gussy]

Where did you stay? And how were the accommadations? Did you see the sea snakes?

Just came back from Malapascua beginning of Jun & it was a wonderful experience...We started diving the minute we stepped onto the island! Did a sunset/nite dive as a checkout dive & I fell in love with it immediately...after that, I just cant stop asking for more! We went back to the same site again the next nite to look for Mandarin fish & seahorse & we found lots of big fat Mandarin fishes...and of course not to forget the seahorses.....

After 1 whole day of travelling & a nite dive, we had to get up at 5am the next morning & set off at 5.30am to look for thresher sharks at Monad Shoal (Shark Point). The magnificent creatures came to say hi shortly after our descend & we kept running into them throughout the dive! For the next 2 days, we just kept going back to see them every morning...1 of them got so close to my buddy that she could almost kiss the shark! Nearly got slapped by the beautiful long tail....


Other then the threshers, there're also lots of different species of nudibranch/sea slugs, seahorses everywhere, even pygmy seahorse...we also did couple of wall dives, even swam thru a cave for our last dive! For our last sunset/nite dive, we went to a beautiful dive site with a whole garden of beautiful/colourful soft corals....I even found a sea snail (calpurnus verrucosus)! Saw lots of scorpion fish, lion fish, crabs, juvenile sweetlips...

A trip worth making even if it's just for the threshers!

 

[Gussy]

I went to Palawan (Club Noah) and Bohol last year. They have lots of dive sites too...Bohol especially as you'll have access to other dive sites located on other island. You'll need about 4 nights stay.

All these posts mention a whole bunch of sites, but none talk of Malapascua, where I was planningo to go this week. As yet I've booked nothing but my Manila flight, would somewhere else in the Philippines be a better option?

 

[Evil]

Where did you stay? And how were the accommadations? Did you see the sea snakes?

We dived with Bubble07 & booked the resort thru them as well...but the resort is not located on the beach front, u gotta walk a short distance from the dive centre. Very basic but clean accommodation, fan & attached bathrooms.

Yeah...saw the sea snakes as well....

 

[paolov]

hmmmm

snubbed ......

hehehehe


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[El Orans]

Digging up ancient history?

 

[paolov]

nope, having them implicity moved to it's proper place



without asking...


check this out http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=33729
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[Mike Veitch]

i think Pao scares people off...

 

[pakman]

Digging up ancient history?

I think he's lonely since his chicken choked... I mean croaked.