Diving with Thresher Sharks | Love Cebu
Reaching the island from our city of Iligan will take 30 minutes of aerial travel from the nearby city of Cagayan de Oro to Cebu-Mactan international airport, a 5-6-hour drive to the Municipality of Maya in northern Cebu and a 30-45-minute boat... The island is so beautiful, and it has regions too, where locals thrive in. Seeing the waters and the seabed beneath as we drifted closer to the sugar white shores, I said to Clint that choosing this island for their study is a good choice. Yearly, hordes of tourists visit the island of Malapascua just to witness the sharks and study them for biological purposes, just in luck that Malapascua also has good resorts for a classy accommodation. We snorkeled, and were able to capture harmless jellyfishes, sea cucumbers and some saltwater snails as the specimen for marine invertebrates. There is an island in the Northern Tip of Cebu that is well known not only for its beautiful sandy white beaches, but for sightings of Thresher Sharks too. My cousin his name is Clint is taking up Bachelor of Arts in Biology – Major in Marine Biology. In the afternoon that day, we were bound for scuba diving to witness what Malapascua has always been proud of, the Thresher Sharks. Sharks may have a bad reputation to most humans, but that only goes for the most aggressive great whites. It was such a wonderful creature to see, it had a long caudal fin, it seemed like it was as long as it’s body. I was able to witness a real shark for the first time. These sharks are resting on the deeper trenches of Malapascua and surfaces to find food.
