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Philippines Diving: A Night to Remember
It can sometimes take a little persuasion to get us to go night diving, but our diving during the day with Magic Oceans had already hinted at how good a night dive here might be. If you love critter diving, then this is one destination to add to your list, with frogfish, nudibranch and a whole host of macro marine life to discover. At night, even more unusual creatures come out from their hiding places, as we were to discover.
On our second evening at Magic Oceans, we joined a small group heading out for a night dive in the productive Anda waters. As soon as we put our heads under the surface, we could hear the divers ahead of us banging their tanks to announce they had found a cool critter. This was not a bit of beginner’s luck, for the whole hour-long dive, clanging filled our ears. The dive saw us traverse over a sandy seabed, with seagrass, along with small coral bommies, giving a fantastic array of marine habitats to explore.
Whilst we encountered a host of great marine life, including crustaceans, nocturnal fish and nudibranchs, the highlights of this incredible dive had to be between the wonderpus sighting and a hairy frogfish happily eating the small crustaceans our dive lights were attracting.
Back on dry land, the group quickly showered and then met up again for a family-style dinner, where they could re-live the dive and discuss all the weird and wonderful marine life they had encountered. Those that had chosen not to go on the night dive had to listen to what they had missed, but this only meant that everyone went out on a night dive to the same dive site the very next night!
For more information please follow the links below:
The Official UK Travel Guide for The Philippines
Underwater Photography Equipment Used:
- Olympus OMD EM-1 MKII with 60mm lens
- Nauticam housing
- INON Z-240 strobes
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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