This week is the main Malapascua Island fiesta of the year and everyone has been in high spirits. This morning was the “Fluvial Parade” where all the boats from Malapascua get together and do a trip around the island in celebration of the Virgin Delos Desemapardos for whom the fiesta is in honor. View from …
April last year was the best month of the hammerhead season, and April 2009 is certainly living up to that. We have had incredible hammerhead sightings over the last couple of weeks. Throughout the 2009 hammerhead season, which starts in December, hammers have been coming right up to us on dives, often in ones and …
What a great dive this morning. 10 sharks in total! Including a group of 4 and a group of 3. This isn’t just a one off event. Since November 2007, shark sightings have been on the increase, and they just keep getting better and better. January and February used to be low season for the …
Today we made our first trip of the HAMMERHEAD season out to Kimud Shoal. Not sure if they had yet arrived at Kimud, the group descended into the blue down to 40 meters. As they worked their way up, they were starting to lose hope. All of a sudden the lone hammerhead appeared out of …
We’ve been waiting for this moment for months, but finally it is here, our new restaurant is now open!!! “Oscar’s” brings a new type of dining to Malapascua. We serve an eclectic mix of exciting international dishes made from the freshest ingredients, with an ever-changing menu based on the best produce available that day. Executive …
Strictly speaking this is not really a new dive site. We have known about it since we first arrived on Malapascua Island, but have never dived it before. The PIONEER WRECK is a WWII wreck very close to Malapascua Island. At 54 meters it is beyond the safe limits of recreational and air diving. As …
We have another new dive site, the second in as many weeks. This site is called Deep Rock and it is only a 5 minute boat ride away. It is a sunken coral mound, covered in soft corals with a sandy slope on one side. Depth is 12m-25m so it is perfect for all levels …
We have found an amazing new dive site in Malapascua. It is teeming with fish including a school of 50 batfish who seem to be permanent residents. The batfish will sometimes follow you around like puppy dogs or sometimes shoot off, their sides glistening in unison in the sun. Whichever it is, it will take …
International Cleanup Day this year was a great success as always. We split up into two groups for the day. Our non-divers, staff members and other volunteers started in the morning with a beach cleanup. We included empty pieces of wasteland near to the beach that are often used as impromptu trash cans. We also …
As divers, especially divers who see sharks every day, we care dearly about the declining worldwide population of sharks. Shark finning is the prime contributor to the slaughter of over 100 million sharks each year. At TSD we violently oppose shark finning, though not literally. In the UK earlier this month, an artist violently opposed …
