The sky was raging, in the process of a quick transition from intense blue to fiery red. At the edge of the sea, the sun was sliding down like a curtain dropping after a circus show. Our boatman told us to hurry so we'd catch a glimpse of the last remaining cross marking the buried gravestones. Though most of the cemetery has long been covered by coral reefs—the bones of the buried having since been transferred to another cemetery inland—the site of what is now known as the "Sunken Cemetery" used to be entirely above the sea. That is, until a catastrophic series of eruptions from Mt. Vulcan Daan in the 1870s eroded parts of Bonbon in Catarman town, thereby swallowing the cemetery and tucking it completely underwater.