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Fra-and Quimpo, Gumamela Street, Cagayan de Oro (2026)

08/12/2025

Cabuan - A Monde Haut en Couleur

Cabuan Reef may have one of the most challenging currents but it is also one of the most colorful underwater world in the Island of Camiguin. Splashes of color are just everywhere in this reef that even when you are drifting with the current, you still get to enjoy its vibrant world so much that you can, even without any tutorial, can speak in french, "monde haut en couleur". And colorful reefs that can make you speak a different language, just one of the amazing things you find in a healthy sea.

Another output of the recently concluded 2025 Camiguin Isle Dive Familiarization Tour.
Thank you to the Department of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office, CAMIGUIN TOURISM OFFICE, and Dive NorthMin for another opportunity to showcase the beauty Beneath the Waves of Northern Mindanao.

With buddies RD Elaine Unchuan, Ram Yoro, Cajapin of DivePlan.Ph , Nielsen, Diver Bliss , Dennis Corpuz Photography, cee of Travel and Tours, Ocampo, Esteban, and Pope .
Gear Used: Scuba, Garmin Philippines Mk3i, Panasonic Lumix G9ii with Olympus 8mm FE pro inside an Ikelite Underwater Systems DL200 housing and dome port lighted by 2x Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo Hybrid Flashes.

01/12/2025

You know Christmas time is really around the corner when divers start posting their underwater Christmas decors, especially the Christmas tree worm.. Yep, this Christmas-looking ornament is actually a worm, and the 2 "trees" that you see are its feeding and breathing appendages.. The elongated body of the worm is actually buried in between coral heads or any hard substrate for protection.. And they come in blue, red, yellow, and whatever Christmas colors you can think of.. Live Christmas decors, just one of the amazing things you can find in a healthy sea! :-D Dive on and have a Merry Christmas!

11/11/2025

Polychromatic Jurassic

Originally just a dive site for macro night dives, the Jurassic Dive Site in Cantaan, Camiguin is surprisingly picturesquely vivid during the day. A bewildering spectacle of hues, texture, and s***k can be seen in almost every rocks and hard surfaces in the site. A colorful delight indeed Beneath the Waves of Camiguin Island.

Shot on location during the recently concluded 2025 Camiguin Isle Dive Familiarization Tour.

Thank you to the Department of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office, CAMIGUIN TOURISM OFFICE, and Dive NorthMin for another opportunity to showcase the beauty Beneath the Waves of Northern Mindanao.

With buddies RD Elaine Unchuan, Ram Yoro, Cajapin of DivePlan.Ph , Nielsen, Diver Bliss , Dennis Corpuz Photography , cee of Explorers Travel and Tours, Ocampo, Esteban, and Pope .

Gear Used: Scuba, Garmin Philippines Mk3i, Panasonic Lumix G9ii with Olympus 8mm FE pro inside an Ikelite Underwater Systems DL200 housing and dome port lighted by 2x Hybrid Flashes.

28/10/2025

An Unexpected Shoal

On the 2nd day of the dive festival, Vladimir Elazegui of Scuba de Oro, our Camiguin dive operator for this year's Camiguin Dive Familiarization Tour called me up early and said what many divers dread to hear, "Bai, waves are big, we can't go to our target sites today." . He further said, that they can't even go out of the bay where their boat was moored safely and so the only dives, if we are diving in this condition, it would be in that part. But he said, there is a nearby shoal within that small bay called Cantaan Shoal, BUT PLEASE MANAGE THEIR EXPECTATIONS. Coming off from a Mantigue Island Dive the previous day, I would get why he wanted me to make sure that the guests would not be expecting too much of this site so I told the group to be safe, IT'S GOING TO BE A MACRO DIVE but I got lazy in changing my already prepared wide-angle set-up... and boy was being lazy right.. :-D :-D :-D Cantaan Shoal is another wide-angle paradise. At a top of about 15-16m, it slopes down gently but what is interesting with the shoal is that it has multiple "flavors". Fancy a bed of soft corals, click click click, a row of foliose corals, click click click, a field of branching corals, click click click, and all within a single dive. The conditions weren't perfect (gray overcast skies resulting to darker waters) but the diversity and colors of this dive site is absolutely amazing. Another hidden gem Beneath the Waves of Camiguin.

Shot on location during the recently concluded 2025 Camiguin Isle Dive Familiarization Tour.

Thank you to the Department of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office , CAMIGUIN TOURISM OFFICE, Dive NorthMin for another opportunity to showcase the beauty Beneath our Waves.

With buddies RD Elaine Unchuan, Ram Yoro , Cajapin of DivePlan.Ph , Nielsen , Diver Bliss , Dennis Corpuz Photography , cee of explorers travel and tours , , ocampo , and Andy Pope.

Gear used: scuba , Garmin Philippines mk3i, Philippines G9ii with Olympus 8mm pro FE inside an Ikelite Underwater Systems DL200 housing with dome port and lighted by 2x
Underwater Video & Photo hybrid flashes.

27/10/2025

Monday Mantigue Madness

Mantigue Island offers not only the allure of diving with ancient and endangered marine turtles, but it is a smorgasbord of colors splashed with confetti of fishes. The scenery is so diverse that no 2 rocks and coral formations are the same. The marine life is so vibrant that almost every nook and cranny of barren substrates have a splash of color, as if mother nature painted on a blank canvas every color imaginable. Even the blue waters are peppered with schools of scats and jacks, although post pandemic, they have become reclusive and tend to move away from divers when approached. Nevertheless, with continued and improved protection, the marine sanctuary of Mantigue Island is the crowning glory of wide angle diving in this part of the country.

Shot on location during the recently concluded 2025 Camiguin Isle Dive Familiarization Tour and although I have been diving Mantigue Island for more than 2 decades already, I still am in awe of its beauty Beneath the Waves.

Thank you to Department of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office , CAMIGUIN TOURISM OFFICE, Dive NorthMin for another opportunity to showcase the beauty Beneath our Waves.

Dive Service provided by de Oro of Vladimir Elazegui, with buddies RD Elaine Unchuan, Ram Yoro , Jeru Cajapin , Magnus Nielsen , Diver Bliss , Dennis Corpuz Photography , cee of explorers travel and tours , , ocampo , and Andy Pope .

Gear used: Aquamundo Scuba , Garmin Philippines mk3i, Lumix Philippines G9ii with Olympus 8mm pro FE inside an Ikelite Underwater Systems DL200 housing with dome port and lighted by 2x Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo hybrid flashes.

03/10/2025

Golden Hour at Mantangale

If you are interested for a print for your wall, feel free to send a message and I will gladly discuss it with you. :-)

02/10/2025

Here's a quick snippet of the recently concluded dive exploration of Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental, Philippines. Visibility may not be that good during the survey period, but no amount of poor viz can hide the magnificent colors of the reef, the confetti of fishes, and excellent coral diversity and formations in the area. Beneath the waves of Laguindingan lies a big potential for dive tourism, an activity that will not only reduce the impact of fishing and extraction on the reef, but will eventually provide revenues to the local stakeholders. Local fishermen, who are already getting minimal catches, can become guides, their wives souvenir shop sellers, among others. Diving can not only help the environment as it is a non-extracting activity, but can also provide local livelihood. Support and regulation is key to a successful dive tourism and looking forward to Laguindingan developing it.

Taken during the recently concluded Laguindingan Dive Exploration, lead by of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office dynamic Regional Director Marie Elaine Unchuan, with the support of the of Misamis Oriental led by the another lady trailblazer, Juliette Uy and Misamis Oriental Congressman Bambi Emano, and Laguindingan Mayor Roy Macua. Completing the team of explorers for Dive NorthMin are one of the Philippine's best UW photographer, Ram Yoro , and Misamis Oriental's own UW photography champion William Macababayao, Camiguin and Mis Or's premier Dive Instructor Elazegui of de Oro, Kim of Aqua Resort, Villanueva's Dynamic Duo Allera and Ricacho, and our ever present safety officer Col Aye, with the support of the Coast Guard of Region 10.

06/08/2025

Barracuda Alley
Gingoog Pier, Gingoog City, Misamis Oriental

Shot with the Olympus Em10 mark IV with an Olympus 8mm pro FE inside an AOI-uw Housing with 2 Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo HF1 Strobes.

Dive with Buddy Dive Center
Dive NorthMin
Department of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office
Gear by Aquamundo Scuba

04/08/2025

The Fabulously Fancy Flamboyant Cuttlefish

The family of squids and cuttlefishes (which includes the octopuses as well) is widely known for their extreme take on camouflage and being invisible to their predators and prey, using unique pigments in their skin called photophores to change their color and shade so they can blend into backgrounds (just imagine the invisible cloaking devices of "The Predator Aliens"). But like every family, there is always a black sheep, and for the squids and cuttlefish family, this black sheep (or cuttlefish) is none other than the Fabulously Fancy Flamboyant Cuttlefish. Instead of being invisible, this small and unique cuttlefish mesmerizes its prey with its extreme "fabulousness"! Prey are often stunned by its looks as its striking pattern stops prey in its tracks. Before it knows what it really is, the prey is captured by the fast, "bullet-like" movement of its specialized feeding te****le, which is longer than its regular te****les and is equipped with suckers that can grab and hold onto prey. Talk about the prey's last view, that is nothing but dazzling before it suddenly wakes up to a gaping mouth that swallows it. And black sheep (or cuttlefish) in the family of cuttlefishes, just one of the amazing things you find beneath the waves.

Shot with the Olympus Em10 mark IV with a zuiko 30mm f3.5 macro lens in an AOI housing lighted by a single backscatter MF2 flash with snoot in Dauin, Negros Oriental with Bongo Bongo Divers and guided by the eagle-eyed DM Dimar Truita with dive buddies Norman William Macababayao , , K Joe LD , Samal Isla Hopping Earl

DIVE7 DOTCentralVisayas
Negros Oriental Provincial Tourism Board
AOI-uw
Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo
OM System

31/07/2025

G R U M P Y
Mantigue Island, Camiguin, Philippines
Diving with Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort in Balingoan

Olympus Em10 mark IV with 12mm Leica DG Summilux
AOI Underwater Housing with 2x Backscatter Hybrid Flash with warm filter

Department of Tourism - Northern Mindanao Office
CAMIGUIN TOURISM OFFICE
AOI-uw
Backscatter Underwater Video & Photo
Buddy Dive Center
Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort Inc.

30/07/2025

Still Life | Tubbataha, Philippines

Panasonic Lumix G9 + Olympus 8mm FE Pro
Ikelite DL200 Housing with 2x Inon Z330 Strobes

Department of Tourism
Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park and World Heritage Site
Lumix
Ikelite Underwater Systems

22/06/2025

Another sold out day.. These are the collectible photos, small, unobtrusive, can fit in your desk, can hang at your wall, or at your bedside, just to remind us of the wonders beneath the waves, and hopefully to influence more people to love and protect our ocean. Oh and that guy with the white shirt and glasses is me....😄😄😄

P.s. All photos were printed and mounted/framed personally by me... Shoot-Print-Frame

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