Diving in Malapasqua

Head to the northeast of Cebu Island to arrive at Malapascua Island, which offers a wide arrange of macro/muck diving with rock and coral formations, sloping reefs, small walls and beds of seagrass. Malapascua is renowned among divers for its thresher shark encounters, which are graceful and majestic creatures; to arrive at this dive spot, you must take a short 30-minute boat ride to Monad Shoal, a 30-minute boat ride to an underwater island surrounded by deep walls. Some exceptional sights await in Gato Island, which is most famous for its shallow tunnel swim-throughs, white-tip reef sharks and abundance of nudibranchs and other macro life.

Dive Sites in Malapasqua

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