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