Scuba Diving ~ Malapascua, Philippines.
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Hi.... some shoots from my recent Malapascua dive trip. 1st thing 1st...... this trip 'Sucks' !!
THE BAD
1) Cebu Pacific Air 'misplace' half the planes luggage.... 2 plane was on the tarmac at The Buget Terminal, one going Cebu, the other Manila..... you guess it, our Dive Gears including my U/W camera casing took an extra trip to Manila.
2) When we did finally get our gears (the same day at 10pm)..... the dive was less than good. The Visibility was only about 15metre on the 1st dive day..... dropping to just around 7metre on day 2 & 3.
3) Due to the bad Vis...... we didn't see the Thresher Shark..... only a friend of mine manage to sight the shark for 2 second.... while the rest of us only saw an outline of the shark (or something) for around 2 second too..... Even Gato Island doesn't have good Vis, and the water current was crazy at most part of the island.....
THE GOOD
1) At last I saw my 1st Manta Ray !! Was so excited till I keep shooting Video and forgotton to take any photo.... not as if photo would be any good due to the bad Vis.....
2) The food is at least cheap and good.
3) After seeing how the avg philippines ppl lives..... I'm glad I live in S'pore....#1 in HDR
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And now..... the creature I most look for on every dive.... 'Nudibranch' - or 'Nudi' in short.... a type of Sea Slugs. They are the 'butterfly' of the sea.... Btw, Nudibranchs are feature on pg92 of the National Geographic Magazine issue - June 2008.
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Thxs for viewing.
See the rest of the Photos at my Flickr site at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hlocphotoscollections/sets/72157605584842462/