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Monad Shoal

Malapascua, Cebu, Philippines · 20–30m · advanced · exposed

Submerged plateau dived at first light, where thresher sharks come up to be cleaned. Early start and a deep profile.

Conditions today

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excellent

Excellent — calm morning with 0.0m effective waves.

Limiting factor: none

Wave height
0m
Wave period
3.4–4.5s
Wind chop
0m
Sea temp
30.2–31.4°C

Ranges span today's hours. Wave height here is the raw sea state — the rating scales it for how exposed the site is. Exposed — open water with nothing to block the swell, so it is scored at full height.

Next few days

  • TodayExcellent — calm morning with 0.0m effective waves.excellent
  • SundayExcellent — calm morning with 0.0m effective waves.excellent
  • MondayExcellent — calm morning with 0.0m effective waves.excellent

Each day is scored over its morning dive window, the same as today's rating.

Dive briefing

AI-generated

Conditions are excellent with a calm morning and minimal surface disturbance. You're diving a submerged plateau between 20 and 30 metres, so plan for an advanced profile and early light. Water temperature sits at 30.2 to 31.4°C.

Divers commonly log pelagic thresher sharks at this site, along with whitetip reef sharks. You'll often record seahorses — tiger tail and spiny varieties — together with mandarinfish, Clark's anemonefish, striped eel catfish, and squat anemone shrimp. The site is known for the cleaning interactions that draw sharks up to the plateau, so settle and watch the behaviour carefully.

Written by Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) from the rating, forecast, and sightings on this page — it has no other source and cannot look anything up. Treat it as a summary, not as local knowledge.

Commonly seen here

Most-recorded species near this site, ranked by research-grade iNaturalist sightings from divers, snorkelers, and naturalists.

Species come from iNaturalist — research-grade sightings logged by divers, snorkelers, and naturalists nearby. The ranking reflects what people photograph most, not guaranteed abundance. Ask a local operator what's actually being seen. Species names link to iNaturalist for range maps, seasonality and more photos. Photos by iNaturalist contributors under Creative Commons licences — individual credit on hover.