Are you searching for the best diving spot? Try Monad Shoal in Malapascua, Philippines. Monad Shoal is a world famous diving spot and a sunken island famous for its Thresher Shark.

Be sure to have a certification from the sport’s major organizations, these are the Professional Association of Dive Instructors or PADI and the National Association of Underwater Instructors or NAUI organization. Certification is required so as to verify your skills in diving.

Gear up and get ready to dive. Basic requirements for the dive are wetsuit, mask, fins, buoyancy compensator or BC, tank, regulator, diving device or computer and weights. These are just the required gear for diving. The gadget gear would include high technology devices such as laser pointers, underwater camera, underwater slates, strobes, video recorders, lights, lift bags, lines and reels.

Speaking underwater should be easy if you know the basic hand signals. “Thumbs up” for ascending while “thumbs down” for descending. The “OK” signal is also thumbs up but stationary. Advance divers have developed hand signals that would relate to danger such as shark presence hand signal. What are you waiting for, gear up and dive at Monad Shoal and have a glimpse of the Thresher Sharks.