Best Place in The World to Dive with Whale Sharks

If whale sharks are your thing, Donsol, a sleepy town in the Philippine province of Sorsogon, hosts what is arguably the largest known annual congregation of whale sharks in the world. Over the last six years, visitor records reveal that 95 percent of tourists that flock to Donsol in the season that runs from November to May, actually get to interact with whale sharks – an amazing record. The greater majority of tourists report up to six interactions in just a single morning.

In March of 2009, a baby whale shark was found in Donsol measuring just 15inches long! The Pilar “pup” was so small, it was very likely born here and could have been what biologists call a neo-nate. Not only is this animal the smallest live whale shark on record ever to be captured and released here in the Philippines (and arguably, anywhere in the world), it is also the first indication that the Philippines, at the apex of the Coral Triangle, is probably one of the places on the planet where these giants of the sea are born.

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