Another cursory entry in the travel log: my dive log from the holiday diving trip to Malapascua. This is mostly here for my own personal posterity. You’ll probably just want to see the lovely underwater photos my brother took.

(1) Isla de Gato

12/27/2005, 10:30 am, 50 mins,

max depth: 70 ft

air used: 2500psi

notes: big seahorse, 3 tiny cuttlefish, 3 white tip sharks

(2) Isla de Gato Sea Snake Sanctuary

12/27/2005, 12:30 pm, 50 mins

max depth: 70 ft

air used: 2500psi

notes: drift dive, no sea snakes, one really big cuttlefish, brave puffer fish which wouldn’t puff for me

(3) Monad Shoal

12/28/2005, 6:00 am, 50 mins

max depth: 65 ft

air used: 2500psi

notes: Very early morning Thresher Shark dive, but came a bit too late. Saw thresher sharks circling in the far distance.

(4) Fish Sanctuary

12/28/2005, 10:30 am, 60 mins

max depth: 60 ft

air used: 2800 psi

notes: mostly small life, small cuttlefish, school of saltwater catfish in cave

(5) Japanese Wreck

12/28/2005, 5:30 pm, 60 mins

max depth: 50 ft

air used: 2500psi

Twilight dive. Japanese wreck in pieces along reef, a few colorful red mandarin fish, got dark during dive, had no flashlight for a night dive, very annoying.

(There was another early morning thresher shark dive at Monad Shoal the last day, but I opted to skip it. The group didn’t see any thresher sharks, but they did see some very large manta rays, but those were subsequently scared off by another group of flailing amateur divers.)