Award-Winning Dive Center

Award-Winning Dive Center

A full-service, one-stop dive center
on Malapascua Island

A full-service, one-stop dive center
on Malapascua Island

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Learn about Thresher Shark Divers, Malapascua Island’s premier dive centre and the only PADI 5 Star CDC in the region.

About Thresher Shark Divers

We also have annual PADI awards from 2018 to 2025, we are waiting for images from PADI to upload them :) We have received at least one award each year since we became PADI members.
And we have been awarded Tripadvisor Traveler’s Choice award evvery since since it started.

Scuba diving at Malapascua Island with Thresher Shark Divers
Scuba diving at Malapascua Island with Thresher Shark Divers
Scuba diving at Malapascua Island with Thresher Shark Divers
Scuba diving at Malapascua Island with Thresher Shark Divers
Scuba diving at Malapascua Island with Thresher Shark Divers
Scuba diving at Malapascua Island with Thresher Shark Divers

Why us?

Fun

You as the customer are the most important thing to us. We do everything to ensure that you will have the best time of your life on your vacation in Malapascua! We offer all the benefits of a large established dive center, but with the personal feel of a small shop environment

We do everything to ensure that you will have the best time of your life on your vacation in Malapascua! We believe the diving here is amazing and we want to show you the best of what we have. We know you will have the most fun with us quite simply because everyone here – from the owners to the boat staff – love diving and love our jobs. The staff are always laughing and joking with each other and with you, which always makes the boat a fun place to be.

And the fun doesn’t end with diving. The dive shop is right on the beach, and is a relaxing place to hang out. There is always someone around for a chat, or you can grab a drink and browse through our comprehensive selection of fish ID books and dive magazines. Our bar is a great place for an apres-dive beer and has a lively Happy Hour and evening crowd.

Experience

When diving somewhere as special as Malapascua you need an experienced operator and experienced dive guides. After 20+ years diving Malapascua, you cannot find better, and the TSD…

When diving somewhere as special as Malapascua you need an experienced operator and experienced dive guides. After 20+ years diving Malapascua, you cannot find better, and the TSD team know the Malapascua dive sites inside out. They will ensure you get the most out of each and every dive!

There are, quite simply, no dive shop owners or managers on Malapascua that have spent as much time on the island as Andrea and Dino at TSD. So you know you will be getting the benefit of their vast experience. Our experinced management team of 5 people ensures Thresher Shark Divers caters more for you, for the customer’s benefit, because they can see first-hand what it is you need. They have a love for the underwater world that is obvious to see. What better qualification to be your hosts and your tour guides of what they believe is truly some of the best diving in the world!

Boutique diving without the price

When you dive with us, everything is easy. All you do is unpack your equipment on arrival and we will do…

All you do is unpack your equipment on arrival and we will do the rest. We carry it to the boat, set it up (if you wish) and will help you into your scuba unit. Our staff will even put your fins on for you if you want!

After the dive, don’t even think about walking your kit back to the shop, the TSD team will do that all for you. Apart from the obvious safety issues associated with heavy exertion and lifting after diving, we believe that as you are on holiday, you should have the hard work done by someone else.

They will also rinse your kit at the end of the day if you wish.

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Spacious office

Everything you need from a dive shop: knowledgeable staff, sign up sheets, extensive fish and marine ID library, a self-authored book about Malapascua’s dive sites to help you choose where to dive.

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Retail area

A retail area with all the usual dive gear, trinkets, log books etc. And be sure to keep a little back for our TSD rash vests and water bottles, they are very popular! We also sell reef-safe sunscreen.

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Equipment rooms

3 large equipment rooms and a dedicated equipment repair room including one for your personal equipment.

TSD Compressor room

Compressor room

There is nothing more important than having clean air and we have always taken care to make sure every air fill is perfect.

We regularly test our air quality, and in over 15 years it has always been top notch. And every single tank fills gets the “sniff test” from the filling staff.

TSD Dive boat, Amy

Top Quality Boats

Our biggest boat, “Amy”, is a Philippine style banka. We built it with divers in mind, and are proud to say, it is one of the fastest, biggest and most comfortable dive boats on the island. We will get you to the dive sites as quickly as possible, so you can spend more time in the water! Maximum capacity is 25 divers, but we usually keep numbers to half that…

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Safety and Diving. At Thresher Shark Divers we take your safety very seriously and is the top priority in all dive activities. This means that with over 20 years in operation and tens of thousands of customers, we have never had a serious accident. If you want to take a diving class and have ever had any medical conditions, please fill out this form and contact us if you have questions.

Safety and Diving. At Thresher Shark Divers we take your safety very seriously and is the top priority in all dive activities. This means that with over 20 years in operation and tens of thousands of customers, we have never had a serious accident.

If you want to take a diving class and have ever had any medical conditions, please fill out this form and contact us if you have questions.

Our Crew

We offer all the benefits of a large established dive center, but with the personal feel of a small shop environment

Our Dive Guides

Tata, Rissa-May, Marvin, Wilbert, Ronnie and Mark are our Filipino dive guides. They are all PADI certified Divemasters, Rissa, Marvin, and Mark are also PADI Instructors, and most of them trained through TSD. They have been diving Malapascua’s fantastic dive sites for a long time and some have completed over ten thousand dives on Malapascua each!

They know all the dive sites inside out and can show you many things you have probably never seen before. If there is something you want to see, just ask. With their laser eyes, they can spot things you would never have seen! They are particularly adept at managing the special needs of photographers.

If you are looking for something special, just ask, and they will do their very best to find!

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The TSD team

Our Instructors

We have a multilingual instructor team from all around the world, as well as from right here on Malapascua. Our PADI diving instructors have been through a rigorous training program, and each has many years of teaching experience with hundreds of students.

We take great pride in teaching students of any level. Diving lessons are almost always one-on-one, and there will usually be an assistant as well. So you will get individual attention and diving instruction will go at your own pace.

You can be assured that with us, you will have only the best: top quality service, unrivalled professionalism and a safe and most of all fun diving vacation from start to finish!

Our Shop Staff & Boat Crew

The dive shop is run by our team of foreign Instructors/Managers, headed by Leon, Operations Manager, from Holland, and Toni, our Head Instructor and PADI Course Director. But the shop is really run by Gret and Gen. The ladies oversee our office team who will attend to all your needs in the dive shop.

And not to forget the unsung heroes of any dive shop, the back-end crew, who look after our equipment, fill your tanks, and not to forget our dedicated equipment maintenance and repair guru.

Senen, Gino and Ronnie are our boat captains, ably assisted by our boat crew. Together they make a great team, they are very friendly and competent and will help you however they can.

Our humble beginnings

Thresher Shark Divers is the brainchild of Andrea Agarwal. Originally from the UK, in 2003 she upped and moved to the Philippines.

Very few people had heard of Malapascua at that time, and the dive industry in the Philippines was in its infancy, but Andrea has worked tirelessly over the years to bring the name of Malapascua to divers everywhere. And what started as a tiny operation with four members of staff and a compressor pumping out four tanks an hour is now one of the largest and most well-respected dive operations in the Philippines.

Thresher Shark Divers was one of the first dive shops to open on Malapascua and our name quickly became synonymous with diving on Malapascua.

Throughout the years, our mission has remained to offer a professional, safe and fun dive experience to all our customers.

We are located on Bounty Beach, Malapascua Island, just off the north tip of Cebu in the Philippines, located near the western end of this picture-perfect white sand beach.

We like to keep things small so that your dive experience is as personalized as possible. You won’t be just one insignificant diver among many. We keep groups as small as we can, usually only 4 per group. In addition, we try to be flexible and will do our best to accommodate the dive sites you want to go to. We can often go diving even if it is just you on the boat.

We are a PADI 5 Star CDC Dive Center, the highest level of PADI dive center, and the only one on Malapascua so you know that we meet the high standards of PADI. We also teach the widest range of courses on the island, all the way up to PADI Instructor level including technical courses up to Trimix Instructor.

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