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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Dive 44 : Bantigue Malapasqua Philippines

7th November 2006, Dive time 55min.

At first seemed like super boring divesite with just sandy seabottom and no corals, dropffs or whatsoever. But eventually really lot of cool stuff here! Paradise whiptail, lizardfish, cardinalfish, shrimp + goby yhdistelmiä cornelfish (like trumpetfish but with blue mil-lateral stripes) many striped puffers, black suddle snake eel, and best of all a MIMIC OCTAPUS! We spent a good 5-10 mins just staring this one and seeing how it tries to carmoflage itself with the sandy surroundigs. Lots of shrimps, even Manta shrimps, even though not the most colorful type. Also fouund a trap full of big crabs, could not open it unfortunately. Jellyfish. Many Urchin Crabs (white/brown zebra) Initially boring but eventually a great dive.

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