{"id":55896,"date":"2015-07-15T23:27:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55896"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:28:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T04:28:24","slug":"development-of-agutayan-islet-as-scuba-diving-destination-mulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/15\/development-of-agutayan-islet-as-scuba-diving-destination-mulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of Agutayan Islet as scuba diving destination mulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55898\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/misamis-oriental.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55898\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/misamis-oriental.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo \" width=\"200\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MISAMIS ORIENTAL \u2013 The provincial government of Misamis Oriental has found an ally in the development of a new diving spot in Mindanao for domestic and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidential Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD) on Monday said that they would wait for the \u201cformal proposal of an intent from the provincial government of Misamis Oriental and the regional office of the Department of Tourism (DOT) on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Karen A. Chan, said that the PCSSD as an attached agency of the DOT, would be willing to hold an exploratory assessments of the Agutayan Islet in order that the DOT would sanction the islet\u2019s surrounding waters as a diving spot.<\/p>\n<p>The crescent moon-shape Agutayan Islet, a 30-minute boat ride from the shoreline of the mainland town of Jasaan, east of Misamis Oriental, is a 5,000 square meters sandbar that shines like a myriad of white crystals amid the Macabalan Bay during ebb tide.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial government has declared the Agutayan Islet and its surrounding three-hectare coastal waters as a marine sanctuary to serve as the breeding ground of endangered giant clams, seeded by the local government in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Chan said that the PCSSD has shown interest in the islet after reading reports that the surrounding waters is home of the extinct \u201cThresher Sharks\u201d and two species of stingrays previously endemic only off the waters of Cebu.<\/p>\n<p>The Thresher Shark, known as the \u201cAlopias Vulpinu\u201d or \u201cFox Shark,\u201d is \u201clahoy\u201d in vernacular. Its name comes from the sharks unusually large tail (caudal fin), which, in most cases, is as long as the shark itself.<\/p>\n<p>Chan said that through the efforts of the Commission, a so-called new touring road in the area would fast track the ferrying of tourists to and from a new developing diving spot in Surigao Del Norte.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the only known diving destinations recommended by PCSSD are located in Camiguin, Davao, and Tawi-tawi.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Last week, provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente B. Emano, of Misamis Oriental, disclosed a plan to develop the coastal town of Jasaan into a comprehensive tourism destination in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MISAMIS ORIENTAL \u2013 The provincial government of Misamis Oriental has found an ally in the development of a new diving &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":55898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","mauthors-mark-francisco","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}