The Thresher Sharks of Monad Shoal

Malapascua can be found 8 Kilometer north of Cebu in Visayas region, a tiny island in the Philippines. It offers a great variety of dive sites from amazing coral gardens to sandy muck dives, to wall diving.

Monad Shoal in Malapascua is an underwater island and famous as one of the places where Thresher Sharks can be seen almost everyday.

This underwater Island, which ranges on the top from 25 meters to 32 meters, has become the famous attraction to local and tourist divers because of the additional macro-live that provides some interesting sights while waiting for the Thresher Sharks.

Malapascua’s Monad Shoal has plenty of opportunities to see the well-known thresher sharks year around.

This kind of sea mammals are one of their regular visitors to this sunken island. The Thresher shark serves as janitor for the coral reef, cleaned by the cleaner wrasse, schooling on the top of Monad Shoal.

The family of wrasses is huge and most of them come in beautiful colors. Some other visitors to the cleaning stations are lionfish, sweet lips, octopus and the batfish.

The best chances to see the Thresher Sharks is early in the morning while most Manta Ray sightings at Monad Shoal are in the afternoon.

Depending on the season, the shoal also attracts the white tip sharks, silver sharks, devil rays and also the eagle rays.

Malapascua Monad Shoal of Cebu Philippines is a perfect site for enriched air dives. Challenge yourself and discover the secrets of this famous marine protected underwater island.

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