xrcjdx
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just finished a great week of diving at peter's dive resort on sogod bay. in a reply to an earlier post i mentioned i would give a real-time update re whalesharks.
it is starting off a very slow year, and the dive-ops are worried the whaleshark season will be another disappointment, following last year's post-yolanda (haiyan) debacle. matters have not been helped by the east side barangays taking over the organization of whaleshark spotting/guiding from the loose collective of locals that had been responsible before. the result, according to the ops i spoke with, is if the whalesharks are indeed coming in no one is out there looking for them to report sightings to the diveops. ah, the philippine bureaucracy and better way of doing things.
that all said, i am very happy to say that as a result of a dead camera battery i spent a good deal of time on one napantau dive with my nose out of the reef and was rewarded with a +/- 5 m whaleshark passing by at eye level a few m off the wall heading down. lucky me!
it is starting off a very slow year, and the dive-ops are worried the whaleshark season will be another disappointment, following last year's post-yolanda (haiyan) debacle. matters have not been helped by the east side barangays taking over the organization of whaleshark spotting/guiding from the loose collective of locals that had been responsible before. the result, according to the ops i spoke with, is if the whalesharks are indeed coming in no one is out there looking for them to report sightings to the diveops. ah, the philippine bureaucracy and better way of doing things.
that all said, i am very happy to say that as a result of a dead camera battery i spent a good deal of time on one napantau dive with my nose out of the reef and was rewarded with a +/- 5 m whaleshark passing by at eye level a few m off the wall heading down. lucky me!
