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2018-05-31 01:01
in Diving
I selected the special repositioning trip from Tubbataha which only allows divers 3 months out of the year, back to Dumaguete which is better for muck diving, and it's actually excellent muck diving.
The Siren is a beautiful and spacious wooden boat
Later, we saw many more at Oslob in Dumaguete, where they get fed (yes, that's cheating, but I didn't mind ;) )
I wrote a separate post just for Diving with Whale Sharks at Oslob, Philippines
We saw few full size cuttlefish, although this one pretending to be a weed, won. The other were pigmy ones we mostly found at night:
Just a fun video of sea snakes swimming;
Lots of jacks, I mean *lots*
Super sad video of a dead blown puffer fish being carried around:
https://youtu.be/MXr87Rvv3x0
Fish and shrimp + gobi digging out their nest:
An interesting crab holding a baby (I didn't poke it with the stick, it actually grabbed it and held on to it after I lifted it gently):
Turtle scratching itself:
Night dive vids were good too (muck diving mostly). Snake eel, had never seen one before:
Cool crab:
A giant basket sea star, a Very weird animal that folds when it sees light to hide from predators:
And a scary-ish trigger fish attacking our group:
And more pictures, still:
And a few more pictures from other people on the boat with better equipment than mine:
And after 12 days of diving all good things must come to an end, with a party and sunset. Thanks to the great crew who took care of us:
Shu our cruise director, giving us a welcome briefing
practising my fish wielding skills
octopus were very shy and more rare
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