🦈 Our Thresher Shark Dive – All You Need to Know

Welcome to one of the world’s most unique dive experiences! We run daily morning trips to Kimud Shoal where you can see guaranteed thresher sharks. 

We also regularly dive at Monad Shoal, where tiger sharks are sometimes seen.

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💡 Who Can Join the Shark Dive?

Certification	Option
Advanced Open Water (AOW+)	Join our regular 2-dive shark trip to Kimud in a group with a Divemaster
Open Water Diver	Dive with an Instructor on an Instructor-Led Dive (ILD) for safety
Not Certified	Sorry, it's not possible. If you have a few days, you can do your Open Water with us and then the shark dive.
Snorkellers	Sorry, it's not allowed due to strong currents and heavy boat traffic.

Our thresher shark guarantee promises you we will go even if it's only you on the boat. 

Pricing for shark dives 🤿

💰 Prices (in PHP)

(Good until Dec 1, 2025)

🔹 AOW+ Divers, 2-dive Kimud Trip

• P4,200 — 2 dives
• P450 — Park fee
• P500 — Fuel surcharge
• P800 — Equipment (if needed)

       🦈 Total: P5,150 without gear / P5,950 with gear

🔹 Open Water Divers (Instructor-Led Dive), 2-dive Kimud Trip

• P7,400 — 2 dives (gear included)
• P450 — Park fee
• P500 — Fuel surcharge

       🦈 Total: P8,350

🔹 Fun Dive packages, including shark dives as well as other dives, can be bought here.

💳 Payment Options

• Our online store
  • Fun dives  for AOW and above
  • Instructor-led dives: for OW Shark Divers: ILD
• Wise
  • Fun dives: for AOW and above: 
  • Instructor led dives:  For Open Water Divers: ILD
• Revolut
• Other methods (GCash, credit card, PayPal, etc.): 

📋 Important Notes for the Shark Dive

• If you haven’t dived in a while, a refresher may be required the day before

• The trip will be a 2 or 3-dive trip, Kimud/Kimud, Monad/Kimud, Monad/Kimud/Kimud. The third dive is optional.

• You must register in person at the dive shop by 5pm the day before your shark dive. If you are running late, please contact us via WhatsApp: +63 917 795 9433

🤿 More Dive Information

🌊 Dive Sites We Visit Include:

• Kimud Shoal – Thresher shark hotspot, open ocean plateau
• Monad Shoal – Tiger sharks
• Gato Island – Swim-through cave, white-tip sharks, stunning macro
• Lapus Lapus, Ka Osting, Bugtong Bato – Relaxed macro sites
• Chocolate Island – Soft coral, shallow fun dive
• And many more.  Find out more about Malapascua's dive sites.

Daily Dive Schedule 🤿

🕓 Typical Schedule

Here’s what a typical dive day looks like at TSD. We’ll help plan around your arrival time, certification level, and interests. We offer 4 -5 dives a day (including a dusk or night dive). You can choose your dives from our daily schedule, which may include several sites in each time slot, depending on the time of year. We try to take your site requests into account as much as possible, so be sure and let us know!

Departure Time	Dive
Departure between 5am and 8am The schedule is confirmed the day before. We can usually pre-book an early trip for you.	Shark Dive 🦈 🦈 🦈 (Kimud and/or Monad Shoal) 2-dive trips = 5 hours 3-dive trips = 7 hours
Between 8am and 9am	1-2 local dives near Malapascua
8am or 9am	Day trip to further away sites, 2 or 3-dive trip, may include Gato
11am	Gato 2 dives (leaves after Kimud returns)
2pm or 2:30pm	1-2 local dives near Malapascua
Departure between 4:30pm and 5:30pm	Dusk/night dive

 

📝 Notes

• Site choices depend on weather, conditions, and group preferences
• We’ll customise your dive plan based on your arrival, experience, and wish list
• Private Divemaster and/or boat rental is possible for an additional fee (subject to availability). 
• What’s Included / Excluded
• Rooms & Transfers

 

 

There has never been a better time to come for thresher sharks. Sightings have been amazing, the best in the 20+ years we have been here!

Thresher sharks were always seen at nearby Monad Shoal, but they disappeared almost overnight and moved to Kimud Shoal, a "sunken island" similar to Monad, but shallower and further away. They are 99% guaranteed, and almost always incredible sightings.

Kimud used to be known for hammerhead sharks, which are still occasionally seen. We also still dive Monad, it is full of life, with tiger sharks being the main draw now. We also see whitetip sharks and very occasional bull sharks. You also have the chance to see many other "bucket-list" fish like large rays, seahorses, frogfish and ghost pipefish.

Threshers used to be most common at dawn, but we are now getting sightings throughout the morning. So we usually offer double shark dives, and our new 3-shark-dive trips are proving very popular. We also sometimes offer 3-dive day trips starting with Monad followed by a double dive at Gato, our other most popular site, known for close encounters with whitetip reef sharks, and some amazing macro life. Find out more about our dive sites. 

We finalise the exact dive schedule a day in advance, so I cannot tell you for any particular day in the future what schedule will be diving. But due to its special nature, and given we don't want anyone to miss the threshers, we are now offering a unique offering, a "Kimud Double Dive Guarantee" at no extra charge for anyone who only has one night on the island.

FAQs

• What if I cancel?

  • We finalise the schedule and boat spaces at 6pm the day before, so if you let us know by then, you can reschedule your dive at no extra charge. Otherwise, it will be payable in full.

• What happens if sharks don’t show?

  • This has not happened in years! See our thresher shark guarantee!

• What about bad weather?
  • We lose very few diving days each year to the weather. In the event that the dive does not go out, we will reschedule at no extra charge. 
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