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Cebu, Malapascua Dive Report (6-13 April 2007)

[Thanks to Dorothy, who has written this wonderful Dive Report!] {> Photos <} by me {> Underwater Photos < } by Dorothy Mabuhay! Yeah you got it. It's my dive report again! (warning, this is a very long one) The trip to Malapascua was a 3-hr flight + 3-hr bumpy road trip + 1/2 hr scenic boat ride = very tired travellers. This hasn't taken into account the lack of sleep, the transfer to the mid-sized outrigger (Arbert) on a small pole-rowed boat, the dylan-carrying-his-suitcase-on-his-head episode, and the waiting for batches of supplies to be transferred onto the outrigger on those same row boats. Our original plan was to do 2 dives on the first day after breakfast, but fatigue took a hold of us after dive 1 and we decided to just rest for the day and pump up the no. of dives on days 2 and 3. Our DM Renelo (we call him "Rey") was accomodating, nice and went out of his way to help us during our surface intervals....and he's really good at pointing