Great story teller, Noel! I could feel your enthusiam and love for the marine life. So informative and interesting . Our country's pride. You deserve a Nobel prize award for trailblazing this endeavor. Woo hoot .... proud ninang here 👏
even before i became a diver, I am already fascinated by tubbataha. Now that i have become one, I know one day i will be diving those places..fingers crossed🤞
Incredibly inspiring-both to dive and to capture the beauty of nature, direk. The line that gripped me was "...when given the chance, nature can recover." Thanks for sharing your view with us as honest and as masterful as you did with this piece.
Thank you so much for watching, Jeunice! Tubbataha is a national (and natural) treasure, but is also akin to a canary in a coal mine when put in the perspective of our pressing issues today.
Thanks for the great video--very impressive. I was scheduled to dive Tubbataha but the trip was cancelled because of covid--two years in a row. I've dived at many different places in the Philippines but Tubbataha is on the top of my wish list but keeps eluding me. Favorite dive site (sites) are the Socorro Islands off the coast of Mexico--also only dived from liveaboard boats. Mantas, mantas and more giant mantas plus different sharks on every dive--including many hammerheads. I've had the pleasure of making three trips there and hopefully will return again soon. I will be diving in the Philippines again this July (2024) but that is long past the season to dive Tubbataha--but I'll make it there one day I'm sure. Good diving!
@@NoelGuevara I was obedient when you said "hit the notification bell" when you started the channel years ago 😂 done watching, wow this is making me miss diving so much. Hope to dive with you and Pam soon!
awesome stuff!!! love the personal - yet universal - nature of the storytelling... your personal videographer is pretty awesome too hahahhaa also: "I found myself alone on the reef"... haven't we all at some point on Tubbataha? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Sir good evening I love your video,,❤,,hehehe,, I remember very clearly now my tubbataha experience in 3 months yes the whole season I was a guide for 1 of the liveabroard,, one tip about the hammer heads,,hehehe,, malayan wreck from the drop or the wall,, 15 to 20 kick of a regular fins spend 2 to mins,, hehehe and then amazing encounter will I just hope its still accurate it serves me well when I was guiding there,, my pride and my joy to be the first one discovered it,, from then on I heard a lot of fellow guides made it,,hehe salamat po
Hahaha at 9lbs / 3kg it is HEAVY! Simply put, the published advantage is the sharpness across the image even at larger apertures. I could shoot at f5.6 and still have my corners and edges acceptably detailed. But personally, I chose it because it's midway between a rectilinear lens and a fisheye, almost like how a 15mm fisheye looks with a 1.4x teleconverter on it. As a result, shark bodies are fuller, unlike being too thin with rectilinears and bobbleheaded with fisheyes. Thanks for asking and watching! Hope you enjoyed!
yeah and I kinda could tell why. I've been having misfires and sometimes only one storbe is firing. I'm looking to switch the the new Supe Scubalamp D-Pro strobes! Short recycle time and I heard the reliability is top!
Yes, it's one of the persisting tragedies of our time. There is also bleaching in Tubbataha, but it--thankfully--recovers. There will come a point though that oceans will be too hot for too long that reefs cannot recover.
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