Destination: Malapascua
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Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Monad Shoal, Malapascua Monad Shoal is a submerged plateau associated with Malapascua diving and the history of thresher-shark observation. It remains a distinct dive destination, but an older account of a thresher trip to Monad may not describe the trip an operator offers today. MBI Dive Center's September 2026 comparison and Thresher Shark Divers' current guide place their regular thresher…
BeginnerPhilippines > Visayas > Malapascua
A coral and macro dive near Malapascua Lapus Lapus offers a different focus from Malapascua’s offshore shark dives: reef formations and small animals to look for at a slower pace. Sea Explorers places the site on the island’s northwestern side and describes rocks, small canyons and soft corals. Thresher Shark Divers also highlights hard and soft coral, with frogfish, mantis…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Lighthouse Reef: a dusk dive near Malapascua Sea Explorers and Malapascua Exotic describe Lighthouse as a sunset or dusk dive associated with mandarinfish. Their accounts focus on activity among the corals as daylight fades. That timing is part of the operators’ description of the experience; it is not a promise of courtship behaviour or a guaranteed animal encounter. How the…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Gato Island Tunnel, Malapascua This guide concerns Gato Island's underwater tunnel, a specific route within a wider island dive destination. It does not represent every reef, wall or overhang around Gato. Sea Explorers distinguishes tunnel entry from reef dives that remain outside it, and Thresher Shark Divers likewise describes surrounding reef exploration as a separate attraction. Confirm which option a…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Doña Marilyn wreck: current condition unverified Doña Marilyn is a passenger-ferry wreck listed among excursions from Malapascua by Thresher Shark Divers. Its page describes an intact wreck and reports an 18–32 m range, but that description must not be assumed to establish present condition. Dated salvage reporting SunStar reported salvage activity at the wreck on 15 August 2018 and an…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
A Malapascua muck-diving site Ka Osting is a shallow dive described by Malapascua operators for its small-animal life and sandy habitat. Thresher Shark Divers lists it separately beside Bantigi, while Kokay's publishes it under the combined name East Garden / Ka Osting. These naming differences are useful to discuss when arranging a trip: confirm the site and route your operator…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Deep Slope: varied terrain and macro-life reports Sea Explorers describes Deep Slope in Malapascua as a combination of sand, rubble, reef and a small wall covered with soft corals. Its named account gives this dive a varied habitat profile rather than describing only a single reef face. The operator highlights a sand dune occupied by groups of garden eels and…
BeginnerPhilippines > Visayas > Malapascua
North Point and neighbouring site names North Point is a named Malapascua dive site in the Thresher Shark Divers, Exotic Island Dive Resort and Kokay's guides. Thresher Shark Divers lists North Wall separately, so this guide does not combine the two. Devocean uses the combined heading Deep Slope / North Point for a northeastern sloping reef. That naming overlap is…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Quilliano, Malapascua Quilliano is a named pinnacle dive near Malapascua's northern end. Malapascua Exotic Island Dive Resort describes a soft-coral plateau beginning around 12 metres and sloping to 13 metres, with steep sides forming a wall. Its listed dive range is 12–22 metres; this is an operator profile, not a new survey of the site's full extent. Corals and small…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Bugtong Bato: a named pinnacle near Malapascua Thresher Shark Divers lists Bugtong Bato as an underwater pinnacle close to Malapascua. Malapascua Exotic describes a dive called Butong Bato, using a different spelling and emphasizing a reef and small wall. The accounts help explain the diving offered under these names, but do not establish identical route boundaries. Confirm the name and…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Bantigue: a Malapascua muck-diving profile Bantigue is described in PADI's contributor-supplied Malapascua listing as a dive that moves from shallow reef towards a sandy bottom. Thresher Shark Divers lists a similar muck dive under the spelling Bantigi. These accounts emphasize small animals and observation of the substrate rather than a large reef formation or a promised big-animal encounter. Confirm the…
Philippines > Visayas > Malapascua
Deep Rock and the northern pinnacle accounts Deep Rock is described by Sea Explorers as a small underwater pinnacle near Malapascua. Kokay’s Malapascua Diving explicitly uses the combined name Ubang Bato / Deep Rock, while Malapascua Exotic Island Dive Resort lists Ubang Bato. Diveity also has a separate Ubang Bato guide, and the relationship between these records remains unresolved. The…
