Dive Review of Little Mermaid Dive Resort in
Philippines/Malapascua

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Little Mermaid Dive Resort: "Wished for Better Weather But Still Awesome Diving", Jan, 2017, by Gianni Zanini, MD, US ( 2 reports). Report 9466.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This is an SSI-affiliated operation and is a bit cheaper than others on Bounty Beach, which is the main hotel / resorts area in the South of the small island of Malapascua. Staff is professional and helpful. Their own large dive boat was damaged during the last typhoon and was still being repaired on the beach in front of the resort. So I dived a local site (Deep Rock) using their small dinghy, and the other sites on other large boats by other operators. In all cases, I had a Dive Master from Little Mermaid accompanying me. Only to Gato Island our group extended to include two other dive companions. Saw only one large thresher shark on Monad Shoal during my sole, early morning dive there. The weather was not really good and the visibility poor, so I did not go a second time. Deep Rock is a nice underwater pinnacle, where we had an easy drift dive and enjoyed the varied hard and soft corals and small creatures, but no big fish. Gato Island is amazing. Beautiful site, really top-notch, with many white-tip sharks swimming around in its caves, and with palm-sized sea horses. I saw two, a yellow one and a black one, and I could have stayed there watching them for ever.
Websites	Little Mermaid Dive Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	California, Caribbean, Mexico, Spain, Italy, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines
Closest Airport	Mactan-Cebu City	Getting There	easy, frequent, cheap flights from Manila (and Singapore)
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy	Seas	choppy, currents, no currents
Water Temp	26-26°C / 79-79°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	10-15 M / 33-49 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Max 32 meters depth; max 1 hour-long dives
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Little Mermaid Dive Resort in Philippines/Malapascua

Little Mermaid Dive Resort: "Wished for Better Weather But Still Awesome Diving", Jan, 2017,

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Dive Review of Little Mermaid Dive Resort in
Philippines/Malapascua