Best place for Snorkeling with Whale Sharks.

You're just on the right thread! Try a new adventure under the water. Discover many beautiful creatures. Have fun snorkeling with whale sharks but you have to be a good swimmer because they are often too fast. Just don't panic and everything will turn out good. After the first encounter with a Whale shark, you will understand why many people consider this the experience of a lifetime.

Here's a picture for you to look at:

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Choose wisely. Choose Philippines.


It is more fun in the Philippines.

 

As I am not the greatest swimmer, I wont be swiming with whale sharks.......But I do intend next trip, to visit Oslob in Cebu
Anybody know other places one can see them? ( from a safe distance ).

 

Oslob, Cebu. Swim with the wonderful creatures!

 

Leave the darn things alone and let them live a natural existence, instead of cruelly interfering with anything and everything for the sake of a few pesos.

 

Olsob ... typical Filipino idiots torturing animals like in a circus to make big bucks. Paying off the involved government agencies to let them verify that all is OK and does not harm the animals.

That's where Greenpeace should have gone with their little rubber-boats. But they were here to meet Sillymanians to verify each other how wonderful they are. And of course it was weekend... nowadays environmental activists don't work for the environment on a weekend.

Oslob, another worldwide acknowledged embarrassment for this country.

 

Not quite sure how you would contain a whale shark.
From what I have read some local fishermen have over a period of time, been feeding them to encourage them to surface.
There is a move to stop people actually swimming with them.
Each to their own opinions as to how to deal with this, I would personally like to view them from a boat like a lot of other whale watchers without interferring with nature.
I was not aware that people where riding on their backs till now!

Whale Sharks at Oslob

 

It is extremely invasive in Oslob.

The whale sharks there are all juveniles, they are trained puppies, none of them reaching remotely adult size.

they see a boat on the surface and go there because there is food. Their natural instinct to search for food is almost gone.

They bounce against boat-hulls begging for food. Many of them with infections around the mouth from that "begging". Others with Propeller scars on the back. (no proof it is from Oslob) However they also approach motorized bankas coming from Dumaguete, Bohol, Siquijor etc.

And no, it is NOT curiosity. Whale sharks in Donsol and Southern Leyte don't do anything close to that out of curiosity, they actually disappear if you splash too much snorkeling in Donsol. Or if a diver misbehaves under water in Southern Leyte.

The morons in Oslob "trained" some baby whale-sharks: surface -> boat -> begging.
Completely taken out of their natural behavior, just to make Huge Bucks. Well whenever they move on, they are an easy catch for fishermen in other areas or the Chinese fishing fleets in Sulu Sea.

By the way foreigners need to pay of course double price.