I had the chance to dive around the Visayas on two consecutive trips this past month. The first trip was a magazine assignment on rediscovering Negros Occidental as a dive spot from Jan. 8-11, and the second was - supposedly - going to be a five-day stay at Malapascua to see the thresher sharks and other sites, rounded out by a weekend partying in Sinulog in Cebu City, from Jan. 14-21.