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Goby and shrimp living together in holes everywhere and the tiny rocks often house small mantis shrimp. Fire urchins,
zebra crabs, dwarf lionfish, cuttlefish, seamoths, crabs, snake Malapascua Island Divingeels, frogfish, nudis and snowflake moray eels |
12m / 41ft |
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11°06’52.18”N, 124°15’02.04”E
11.115155, 124.249551 |
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fishes sanctuary multilevel dives. Look for pelagics out in the blue including sharks, rays, tuna and
barracuda, or unusual fish like clown triggers on the wall. You can also see many critters including nudibranchs, crabs and shrimp. |
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10°59’25.70”N, 124°06’08.21”E
10.990682, 124.104304 |
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11°18'21.6"N, 124°03'49.3"E
11.305987, 124.063698 |
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Chocolate Island is a beautiful shallow dive site and a macro photographer’s delight. The healthy soft coral is
home to a large variety of life: sea snakes, snake eels, moray eels, cuttlefish (including flamboyants), seamoths (Pegasus), large crabs and juvenile batfish. |
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Dakit Dakit is close to the Bounty beach and has beautiful soft coral, nudibranchs, banded pipefish, seahorses and
cuttlefish. |
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GPS:
N.11°34.991’ E.123°59.660’
90 min.by Banca, 32 km
336°from Beach |
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32 km from Malapascua to north. Dona Marilyn was a Cebu-Manila passenger ferry that sank in a typhoon 1984. It
was a huge disaster and many people lost their lives. The wreck is around 100m long, and now lying on its starboard side, amazingly still all in one piece. Long lost fishing nets encrusted in
coral are draped all over it, giving it quite a spooky feel! |
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11°26’42.25”N, 124°01’20.40”E
11.446879, 124.020616GPS:
N.11°26.760’ E.124°01.390’
17 km from Beach Malapascua |
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A small deserted Island with interesting rock formations.There are three underwater caves and a tunnel through
the northern half pygme of the island.The more experienced divers can get through the tunnel. It gets very dark inside , so dont go without a torch. Bew prepared to hear underwater still some
dynamite blasts even if its Marine protected Area, fish and shark tunnel.Its the very best divesite of Malapascua |
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11°16'48.5"N, 124°15'20.0"E
11.280154, 124.255554 |
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Kimud Shoal is a sunken island. The top of the island lies at 12-16m, and the steep sides drop off to 200m+.
Its main attraction is the school of up to 200 hammerheads, which can usually be seen regularly between December and May, and occasionally through the rest of the year. |
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11°20'51.1"N, 124°06'17.4"E
11.347535, 124.104819 |
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Marine protected Area, the most spectacular coral growth and a huge variety of marine life |
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11°20’32.70”N, 124°06’34.52”E
11.342425, 124.109604 |
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The mandarinfish
is possibly the most beautiful fish in the world, and there are few places in the world where they can be seen. Malapascua is one of them.The wreck at Lighthouse
was a Japanese World War II landing craft. It was bombed just before landing with a large shipment of cement destined for a gun emplacement. The wreck is in very shallow water - 3m average - and is broken up with the hull in two pieces. The nearby rocks that you will see are actually bags of cement and you can still see the weave imprints on some of them!
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11°34’43.31”N, 124°02’49.21”E
11.579574, 124.046859 |
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nice relaxed dive among beautiful pastel multi- colored soft tree corals. |
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11°29’32.85”N, 124°06’36.78”E
11.492449, 124.110094 |
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for advance divers only. Great diving because of the strong currents here. Clear waters, good corals and an
excellent variety of life. |
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11°45’41.76”N, 124°19’46.22”E
11.760400, 124.328061 |
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Another rarely visited dives site, Maripipi has everything you could want in a dive site: excellent corals and
plentiful fish life including sharks and rays. We dive here on a minimum 2 day dive safari. |
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11°18'23.1"N, 124°11'22.7"E
11.309166, 124.190478 |
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Monad Shoal is an underwater island on the edge of a 200m drop off, and is famous as the only place in the
world where thresher sharks can be seen everyday. Giant manta rays are a common sight year round and the shoal attracts other pelagics such as devil rays and eagle rays. |
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11°20’58.72”N, 124°06’10.63”E
11.349725, 124.103097 |
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Beautiful soft coral and varied marine life including frogfish of different colors |
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11°05'36.8"N, 124°12'43.0"E
11.093567, 124.211952GPS:
N.11°05.643’ E.124°12.872’
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As you drop over the wall, look out into the blue for pelagics such as eagle rays and sharks, and along the
wall you can spot white eyed and snowflake moray eels, lionfish, scorpion fish, and rare nudibranchs galore among the giant sea fans and sponges. Visibility can be around 30m and there are big
schools of small fish. Nunez shoal is on the edge of a drop off to almost 1km, so expect the unexpected! |
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11°02'03.0"N, 124°08'53.4"E
11.034174, 124.148155 |
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GPS:
N.11°22.500’ E.124°06.400’
351° from Beach, 6 km
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World War II Japanese gunboat. For those trained in decompression diving only. This is a 64 meter WWII japanese
wreck at Malapascua Island, Philippines. Depth is 46-47 meters at the deck and 52-56 meters at the seabed.The wreck has more fish than anywhere else on Malapascua due to its depth as well as
sharks, rays, barracuda and groupers |
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46 mtr. deck
56 mtr seabed |
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Sambauan Beach Islet. (near Maripipi) |
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11°45’55.71”N, 124°15’51.20”E
11.766051, 124.263645 |
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Tapilon wreck
(Oakita Maru) |
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GPS:
N.11°19.136’ E.124°01.942’
265° from Beach, 10 km |
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World War II Japanese cargo carrier sunk by torpedoes. Abundant Barracuda.The 'Taplion' Wreck, is an
unidentified World War II Japanese cargo carrier, named for the nearby town on the mainland. The boat was hit by torpedoes and although it lies in several sections, it is still recognizable as a
vessel. There is an abundance of life on this wreck and it is covered in beautiful black coral, some bushes containing hundreds of almost invisible shrimp jumping around.A recent attempt to
salvage the wreck uncovered bullets and bones so this is not a dive for the faint-hearted! |
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