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I bought my tickets with Etihad. So I do Barcelona - Abu dhabi - Manila. Then I take an Air Asia flight Manila to Cebu. Way cheaper and Quicker than go via China or Hong Kong. I've been checking with them and I had stopovers of 16 hours and 1200 euros tickets. With the current Schedule leaving Barcelona 10.00 in the morning I'm in Cebu 17:00 in the afternoon next day local time. With the longest stopover in Manila of 5 and a half hours and 900 euros tickets.

Thank you so much. For me is more than enough to spend 4 days diving.

Thanks a lot for your tips, the trip is already organized, and due I only have 2 weeks and I hate rush we will do only Moalboal and Malapascua. I don't care about white sand beaches, big 5 star resorts, sunsets, banana boats...I live in Ibiza, I already have this at home. I'm looking for diving nos stop, 2 dives in the morning, one in the afternoon and a night dive if possible. I don't need big luxuries, a proper bed in a clean room with good beers and friends after diving. I contacted Savedra divers in Moalboal and they have organized everything, accomodation, diving and transfers. We are going to stay in Tipolo resort in Moalboal and in Blue Coral in Malapascua.. So we are finally going to do 4 complete days of diving in Moalboal and 4 complete days of diving in Malapascua. I have one complete day to go from Moalboal to Malapascua and another complete day to go from Malapascua to Cebu where I will sleep for a night and the day after take the flight to come back to Spain. What I don't know is what to expect exactly on each site. I know, and that's the reason I'm going to, is that Moalboal is for Sardines and Turtles, but is there something else easy to find really interesting ? pigmy seahorse, electric clam, seahorses, reef sharks... Also in Malapascua, there is obviously the Thresher shark, and if you are lucky a tiger shark, is there something else really interesting to see ?

Thank you so much for your tips, I hope I'll have good look with the weather. I know it will be crowded, but anyway I expect I'll take almost a good shot which makes the the trip to worth it. I'll tell you my impressions once I come back

Thanks for the tips, I have contracted with Savedra diving in Moalboal which has made a combination with what I ask them. So we are going to do 4 complete days of diving in Moalboal and 4 complete days of diving in Malapascua. I assume that I need a full day to reach Malapascua from Moalboal and another day to go from Malapascua to Cebu City. If I'm not wrong Savendra operates in Malapascua dealing with Thresher Shark Divers but I'm not sure about that. My whole point is follow my dream of diving right in the middle of a sardine School like a I watched in the Documentaries when I was child, everything else in Moalboal will be a plus, turtles, etc. If I completed 12 diving days in Tulamben doing macro shots with no regrets being primarily a wide angle photographer I'm pretty sure i will find lots of interesting things in Moalboal. And another of my dreams is diving with Thresher sharks, so Malapascua is the place to go, and somebody talk me also of Gato island like the place to go if going to Malapascua. Once there I'll see

Thank you so much for the information. One of the "wanna go" reason is the mandarin fish and I love night dive, so I will nor miss it. Right now what I'm not sure about is I have find that due to the flight prices it will be cheaper to stay one more day in Philippines, and I'm not sure if to stay one more day in Malapascua or one more day in Moalboal.

Hi all, I'm planning a trip starting the 15th november to Moalboal, diving 4 days diving the more the better and after another 4 days diving the more the better in Malapascua. I have read a lot about it but I appreciate your tips, what do I have to expect ? Chances to find the whale shark with no feeding ? It's 4 days too much in Malapascua ? What about the visibility in the water ? I have contacted with Savedra diving center in Moalboal, for the moment they are very helpful and looks like they can organize me a full pack of transfers, diving and accomodation for a fair price but I don't know anything about them other what I have seen in Tripadvisor.

Not yet, I wanted to go this past weekend, but unfortunately I had obligations. I think I can try next weekend.

Many thanks for the tips, I think I'm going to make a hole on the top of the buoy to put a light inside. Also, one of our dive partners is a biologist high school teacher, so he will love also to come with us and share his knowledge.

Well the boat is big enough to dive comfortably, 2 engines, close cabin, and fuel capacity enough to sail through the islands. Anyway between Ibiza and Formentera is very shallow, not more than 50 meters, and spots with only 8 meters, plus the marine traffic, which in summertime looks like a highway, it's not the best place for BW. Instead that we think the north of Ibiza, near Tagomago, there are places with 150 meters depth and walls starting in 60 meters descending quick to 120, and it's closer to the port where the boat is based. And a lot less of marine traffic, so it's worth a try.

I'll do it when we start, and I hope I can post here some pictures.

Thank you very much. I'm not worried about the current, i'm in Ibiza, so the currents here are very very light, but we will take care of it. My "pumpkin buoy" is a yellow rigid 40 cm wide buoy used to mark beaches, and we plan to add an strobe light on the top. What i didn't plan is to study the bottom, I guess looking for deep walls etc. My plan was simply go to a deep zone and put the lights, but it makes sense to study the spot. There are spots here "close" to the harbour where looking at navionics there are walls starting in 90 meters depth which quickly reaches 250 meters. I think that are the places where we will head to.

Hi all, I want to start doing blackwater diving in my hometown, we have the proper boat and the lights, but I'm not sure how to organize the lights line. We are planning to go to a site almost 100 metres depth and place a line with a big buoy on top, 25 meters long line with weights on the other end, and with an arm 75 cm long with a powerful light on each end every 5 meters. Our plan is to leave the line in the sea for a while and dive with the boat skipper following us close enough to take care of ourselves. Do you think is the right way ? or am I missing something ? It's our first time doing blackwater diving

Well, I bought it in January, I guess the things haven't changed so much. Anyway I paid it with PayPal so if I had any issue I was covered. You won't have problems with that adapter, the dome fits perfectly in the Sea&Sea housings, I have an old Sea&Sea housing for Canon 40D and I first fitted the dome in that housing, no issues at all.

Hi, I didn't have so much time for diving in the last weeks but I have test the dome and compare it with the Nauticam one which my dive buddy has. There's no difference at all in performance, in terms of construction is very solid and there are only two differences with the Nauticam one, the howshot shade can be removed by hand because you can release the screws with just the the hand, they have knobs. But if you prefer it they also send the prisoner allen screws to handle the shade. In the Nauticam dome the lug is machined in the dome body, in the Howshot one the lug is screwed, so yo can use with Sea&Sea, Nauticam and even Isotta by changing the lug. Here you can see two pictures with this dome, both with Canon R6 MkII, one with the Canon 8-15 fisheye lens at 8 with the extension ring which Isotta recommends in his port chart. The other one with the same camera, same lens and Kenko 1.4x converter, the picture is taken at 15 mm with no crop. As you can see the corners are not perfect but there is a huge difference comparing with the 4" dome port, and as I said I can't find any difference in terms of performance with the Nauticam one. I would buy it again.