Sierra Madre Divers, PADI 5-Star IDC, Philippines

Our First Macro Monday! Let us know if you like this! 📸 our incredible Instructor Cynthia took these insane images around the reefs of Bohol recently and we’d love to share a few cool facts about them.

🦀 Crinoid Squat Lobster
Scientific name: (Allogalathea elegans)
Spends its entire life on a single crinoid and colour-matches it perfectly... same host, forever.

🐌 Variable Neon Nudibranch
Scientific name: (Nembrotha kubaryana)
Eats tunicates and actually stores their toxins in its own body as a defence mechanism.

🦐 Wire Coral Shrimp
Scientific name: (Pontonides unciger)
Never leaves its one wire coral - it is born on it, lives on it, and then dies on it.

We know macro isn’t for everyone, but maybe if you look hard enough you’ll find a spark of love in the challenge and being able to meet them 🩵

Are you a macro fan?
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Take a moment to look up every now and then on your dive. You never know what you might see - especially if you notice light disappear… it could be clouds over the sun but it might also be one of the most amazing encounters you could ever imagine !

this post may include false information. 🤫 The first thing Bohol gives you is the colour of the water... a blue that deepens the further you fall into it, soft at the surface and bottomless underneath.

The wall arrives before you expect it, all coral and sponge and slow shadow, and you find yourself drifting along it while turtles pass without bothering to look up.

Above you, schools of jacks gather into slow silver weather. In the cracks: frogfish, nudibranchs, ghost pipefish that only come out at dusk like they’re keeping a secret.

Every so often a whaleshark drifts through the blue, almost casually..

By the time you surface, you’re already planning the next one.

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All of this happens in less than 2 minutes of your 50-60minute dive by the way... every single day, every single dive blows our minds. We’ve dived more than we can count here in Bohol (we’re talking thousands) and no two dives are ever the same.

We are so lucky to be able to call this incredible island home, and be able to share the underwater world with you.

Can’t wait to dive with you again soon!!

10/10 would recommend 😜