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FIRST TIME. Sixty-five divers join the start of the Bay Deep Mati Freediving in Pujada Bay, Mati City, Davao Oriental on Saturday (Sept. 24, 2022). The four-day festival is the first freediving event in the country. (Courtesy of Mati-CIO) MATI CITY, Davao Oriental - Pujada Bay, which made it to the list of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World in 2019, is hosting the four-day Bay Deep Mati Freediving Festival, the first in the country. Sixty-five freedivers showed up Saturday during opening day, which also held a sunrise yoga, Pilates activities, and underwater photography and videography workshop at Dahican Beach and Waniban Island. In an interview, Mayor Michelle Rabat said the Department of Tourism-Davao Region (DOT-11) intends to put Mati on the tourism map with the event and at the same time, flaunt the beauty of Pujada Bay. "We want to position Mati as a tourism hub to invite foreigners and other diving enthusiasts," she said. Rabat encouraged freediving enthusiast to li
DAVAO CITY Mati City, the capital of Davao Oriental, is tapping the services of the lone bidder of the city’s bulk water system project to tap the still pristine surface water of the Mayo River. The city information office (CIO) said the P296.5-million bulk water supply project in Mati City would…