Malapascua is a diving destination. The main attractions are the thresher sharks and manta rays, occasional hammerheads, sea snakes, the mandarin fish, frogfish and pygmy seahorse.

This is the first video of a series from the Philippines and Micronesia with footage from December 2016 - January 2017. They will show world-class dive locations and hopefully inspire divers and travelers during the ongoing covid-19 pandemic.

The first image Malapascua offers will stay with visitors for a long time: an exceedingly beautiful pristine stretch of white sand, crystal clear waters bordered by coconut trees and a dozen of scattered, native-style resorts. But that has changed over the years as the number of visitors has exploded. More and more concrete build hotel like buildings are springing up, replacing the native-style houses. The beach at the 'town' end is not great for sunbathing or swimming (it is very gritty and uneven) and it is only towards the resorts at the further end that it widens a little and the sand becomes finer. There is little to do on Malapascua unless you are scuba diving, if you are looking for a relaxing tropical beach retreat, consider other options. Malapascua is known to the locals as Logon and this vision of secret beach is whimsically named Bounty beach. It lays 8 kilometers off northern Cebu and has a community of about 11,000 inhabitants (as of 2012). A walk or a tour of the whole Island will take about three hours. The main resource of the island is the sea, with divers and fishermen working side by side via compromises.

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Thresher sharks are large lamniform sharks of the family Alopiidae found in all temperate and tropical oceans of the world; the family contains three extant species, all within the genus Alopias. All three thresher shark species have been listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union since 2007 (IUCN), as they are popular sport fish. In addition, they are hunted for their meat, livers (for shark liver oil), skin (for leather), and fins for use in shark-fin soup. They do not appear to be a threat to humans. Named for their exceptionally long, thresher-like heterocercal tail or caudal fins (which can be as long as the total body length), thresher sharks are active predators, as the tail is used as a weapon to stun prey. The thresher shark has a short head and a cone-shaped nose. The mouth is generally small, and the teeth range in size from small to large. By far the largest of the three species is the common thresher, Alopias vulpinus, which may reach a length of 6.1 metres and a mass of over 500 kilograms. The bigeye thresher, A. superciliosus, is next in size, reaching a length of 4.9 meters. At just 3 meters, the pelagic thresher, A. pelagicus, is the smallest. My video pictures the pelagic thresher shark, which is commonly seen at Monad Shoal, Malapascua.

The yellow-lipped sea krait (Laticauda colubrina), also known as the banded sea krait, colubrine sea krait, is a species of venomous sea snake found in tropical Indo-Pacific oceanic waters. The snake has distinctive black stripes and a yellow snout, with a paddle-like tail for use in swimming. It spends much of its time underwater in order for it to hunt, but returns to land to digest, rest, and reproduce. It has very potent neurotoxic venom which it uses to prey on eels and small fish. Because of their affinity to land, yellow-lipped sea kraits often encounter humans, but the snakes are not aggressive and only attack when feeling threatened.

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Music: Jean Dar - Astral Light
Album: Milena 37,2° C
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