FIRST, let me define what a shoal is.

It is a sandbank or sandbar that makes the water around it shallow. For example, the former Engineer's Island, now the Baseco (Bataan Shipping and Engineering Company) is a sandbar. That is why most of it goes underwater during high tide or when there is a typhoon. Sometimes, on a clear day, you might see a person walking in the middle of Taal Lake; it is not an apparition of Jesus Christ walking on water, but a fisherman treading on a sandbar.

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