LEGAZPI CITY: The visitors that swam in the waters off this city may have stayed longer but the noise and dirty seawater could have turned them off, consequently drove them away to less hostile parts—they are nine gentle giants, whale sharks known as butanding.

Tourism officials believed the whale sharks swam from Donsol in Sorsogon province and merely wandered in the waters off Legazpi.

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