Dive #72 : Gilutongan Marine Resort, off Mactan, Cebu, Philippines

Allright now this one was definately all worth it. A good wall at around 5-25 meters, with shitloads of hard and soft corals plus an amazing variety of coral life including a school of giant spadefish, groupers, and a lot of smaller, typical stuff such as parrotfish, morish idols, at least twenty triggerfish chasing each others as maniacs as they are, variety of wrasses and flutemouths, trumpetfish etc, a few shrimps and pipefish but no nudey branches this time.

Even though the site was great, a few dynamite blasts shocked us underwater. It really feels like someone throws the explosives right next to you, such strong is the shockwave underwater. Everyone were staring at each other in disbelief, however relieved that no-ones tank had exploded and that wach one of us were fine. So we continue the dive only to experience the second and the third blast in the moments to come.

This is exaclty the kind of bullshit that greedy attitudes bring up in people. You can easily make the buck by killing all the fish around with a few explosives, then pick the fish and sell it to the market, restaurants, or even worse the chinese morons who buy the fish after not much is left in their own country. Then you leave the corals destroyed and you must hunt the fish further and further away. Also the dive tourism which brings way more money to the local economy than fishing, will diminish. Of course, the fishermen dont get much benefit from divers, but they really must sort themselves out somehow. What the @#@# is the point to first to pay a speacial entrance fee to eneter a marine reservoir and still discover people dynamite fishing in the area. F U all greedy money blinded wankers who are just too lame, dumb or both to understand anything further than short term income.

It was still unclear how far the dynamites were detonated. In the water the shockwave is obvious, however people on the deck of our boat had not heard anything.

Weights 10kg ( because long thick 5mm wetsuit plus gloves), vis 25m, depth 25m, divetime 47min great one.