The Belle Rose, a
cement carrier, hit the
reef off Malapascua
Island, narrowly miss-
ing a spot popular with
divers where typically
hard-to-find thresher
sharks are cleaned by
wrasses. If the ship
had plowed into this
shark spa, it could
have disrupted long-
established shark
behavior and devas-
tated ecotourism
in the area.
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