Diving Malapascua Island, Philippines

Malapascua Island is a small island on the north tip of Cebu. It has very nice beaches, but the main attraction is the diving at Monad Shoal, one of the best places in the world to see the rare Thresher shark.

Thresher shark is a large pelagic shark that can grow up to 5m (more typically 3-4m) and is easily recognizable by the long fin (1/3 of the body).

During 5 dives at Monad Shoal I saw plenty of Thresher sharks, Manta rays and Devil rays. On one of the early morning dives we were only 4 people on the shoal and experienced Thresher and Manta swimming together as well as a very long and close encounter with a Thresher shark.

I also had some nice dives at Gato Island (Cave, White-tip sharks, Cuttlefish, Seasnakes, Nudibranches) and Lapus-Lapus (swimming Frogfish, Nudibranches).

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• diving
• scuba
• Malapascua
• Island
• Philippines
• thresher
• shark
• manta
• ray
• devil
• monad
• shoal
• gato
• cebu
• big

[bisayadiver]

This is the reason why I love to dive in Malapascua.... DIVELINK for me is the best dive group in Malapascua!

[motolite12345]

Wow!!! Great Videos!!!