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PHOTOS: 2021 Anilao Underwater Shootout stages a successful comeback

Team Out of City Weblog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – Beginner {and professional} underwater photographers, divers, and marine fans as soon as once more masterfully captured the fantastic thing about Anilao within the entries to the seventh Anilao Underwater Shootout (AUS), not too long ago mounted by the Division of Tourism (DOT).

Dubbed because the “World Cup of Underwater Picture Competitions,” the four-day occasion highlighted the city’s teeming marine biodiversity, together with its world-famous nudibranchs.

Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat mentioned the occasion showcased the nation’s readiness to welcome again vacationers and reclaim its place because the world’s main dive vacation spot.

“The Anilao Underwater Shootout is a platform to speak the significance of safeguarding our delicate reefs and marine ecosystems for future generations. As we slowly rebuild and recuperate from the consequences of the pandemic, this occasion is our means of asserting to the world that the Philippines' diving business is alive and effectively, and really a lot able to welcome divers and underwater photographers,” Puyat mentioned.

Supporting the division’s thrust to soundly restart tourism within the nation, Puyat additionally famous that greater than 95 p.c of the tourism employees in dive locations are actually totally vaccinated.

Gathering a complete of 120 members flying in from all around the nation, the occasion additionally spurred home tourism exercise in Anilao, trickling all the way down to the group with engagement from the city’s resorts, dive guides, and spotters.

This 12 months’s version garnered a complete of 348 entries throughout the competitors’s 11 classes. Winners have been awarded over two million pesos price of prizes from its official airline associate Cebu Pacific, and underwater images gear from occasion companions Nauticam, Scubalamp, and sponsors AOI, XDEEP, Crest, Fourth Factor, Divers Level, Nautilus Dive, and Sports activities Middle, Squires Bingham, and Ultralight Management Programs, Inc.

Within the Open Class, Macro/Supermacro class, winners are Dennis Corpuz, 1st place; Marivic Verdadero Maramot, 2nd place; and Emil Ribaya Jaranilla, third place.

Within the Marine Habits class, winners are Ariel Careño Locsin, 1st place; Glenn Ian Diaz Villanueva, 2nd place; and Adrian Dan, third place.

Within the Nudibranch class, winners are Dennis Corpuz, 1st place; Glenn Ian Villanueva, 2nd place; Armida Esteban, third place.

Within the Fish Portrait class, winners are Dennis Corpuz, 1st place; Louis Myse Fae Ronquillo, 2nd place; Angelyca Paras Nery, third place.

For the Compact Class, Macro/Supermacro class, winners are: Rafael Francisco, 1st place; Jorge Ida, 2nd place; and Fr. Nemer de Castro Chua, third place.

Within the Marine Habits class, winners are Regie Casia, 1st place; Lloyd Respicio, 2nd place; and Anjeanette Fuentebella, third place.

Within the Nudibranch class, winners are Penn De Los Santos, 1st place; Kim Morfe, 2nd place; Armando Panopio, third place.

Within the Fish Portrait class, winners are Teresa Sy Ortin, 1st place; Patricia Santos, 2nd place; and Ronald Amboy Dalawampo, third place.

Particular prizes have been awarded to Dennis Corpuz within the Blackwater class and Paul Joseph Aristorenas within the Extensive Angle class.

Teresa Sy Ortin and Dennis Corpuz have been named DOT Photographers of the 12 months for the Compact and Open courses respectively.

The worldwide occasion has been organized by the DOT since 2013, according to the identification of diving as a precedence tourism product within the Nationwide Tourism Improvement Plan (NTDP). This 12 months’s panel of judges contains famend underwater images aficionados David Doubilet, Jennifer Hayes, Mike Bartick, Scott Gutsy Tuason, William Tan, and Underwater360 Group founder John Thet.

Following COVID-19 restrictions, the occasion adopted a hybrid format with underwater images workshops hosted through Zoom and the competitors’s official Fb web page. Judging and deliberations have been additionally accomplished via the videoconferencing utility.

The seventh Anilao Underwater Shootout was mounted in partnership with Mabini Tourism, DOT Area 4 A Calabarzon #DiscoverCalabarzon, Solitude Acacia Resort, Aiyanar Seaside and Dive Resort, Crystal Blue Dive Resort, Nauticam, Scubalamp, AOI, and Scubastudio Philippines. The occasion can also be supported by Wetpixel, Underwater Images Journal, Underwater 360, and GRID Journal.

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PHOTOS: 2021 Anilao Underwater Shootout stages a successful comeback
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