Diving Trip
Tried typing in chinese but its gonna take a super long time so decided to switch back to english.
Friday, after meeting my customer at Nee Ann Poly headed straight down to International Plaza to meet all the others for our weekend trip. Meet BB at 1700 for dinner before we head down as it's going to be a long journey.
We were right on time but the others seems to be taking their own sweet time. Strolling to the shop even when they are late. Oh well, what can I say... Anyway, after checking our equipments and loading it up to the tiny van, it marks the start of our long awaited diving trip.
Four hours of ride in a super mini van sucks big time when you are tall and.. fat... Hee... The van was traveling at an average of 110km per hour... Fast huh...
Well by the time we reach Mersing it's already 2330 and the tide was really low. We had to take a smaller speed boat out to deeper water to transfer to our dive boat for the next two days.
Well I thought the van ride sucked, but the boat ride was much worst. It was late at night so there was nothing to see, nothing to do and no where to sleep as most of the spots were taken up.
So after awhile of moving up and down the boat, finally found some where to lie down with BB. It's right at the end of the boat and it was super windy, cold and uncomfortable so didn't really get to sleep much. After about 3 hours of the dreadful ride, I couldn't take it. Wanted to puke but couldn't only burp, felt better after that and tried sleeping again. When we reach Dayang, it's already 0430 in the morning. Was glad and excited about the island but the ride spoiled everything. Anyway after settling down everyone went to bed.
Woke up at 0730 had breakfast till 0900 and off we went to our first diving site, Teluran. After all the briefing, who to follow who, wait for the Dive Master to tie rope below and by the time we first jump into the water, it was already 1045. The sea was cold and salty, scary as you have totally no idea what lies/swims beneath you. When we were all ready, we started diving down one by one, I was the third one to go down. It was beautiful... Totally different from what you see up on land. Fishes, corals, lots of dead corals and lots of water.. Haha.. It's a whole new experience and environment.
Had difficulties balancing underwater, flipping here and there, holding on to the rope and waiting for everyone to come down. Everything is just so different, you are dependent on the air tank for your dear life. One small mistake and you will have lung over expansion, drown... Scary...
We did all the things we should and headed back up as my air was already low, with less then 50 bar left. Guess I was just breathing too hard and trying to get used to it, so used up oxygen very fast. In all, our first dive went pretty well, everything went as planned and everyone executed their moves correctly. Lunch time, went back to Dayang and had a quick lunch before we carry on with the dives.
We moved to Pulau Lang for our second dive. This dive, after we complete what we supposed to do, our instructor will bring us to swim around for a while. So off we went and like the previous time, everything went well and as planned, and as promised, the instructor brought us around. It was simply beautiful. Fishes swimming pass and around you, more dead corals and life corals, clown fish, gigantic rocks and many more.. I was just awsome. Then it was time to surface, up we go and when we all surfaced then we realised that it was raining and the sea was very choppy. We were bobbling up and down the sea and had a hard time trying to stay together. We had to wait for our dive boat to come and rescue us and during the time, it was really scary. Rough sea, no where to stand on and the waves were threatening to hurl us towards the rocks so we had to swim out to the open, to prevent being swept towards the island by the current.
It was took the boat close to an hour just get everyone on board.
When all on board, the weather didn't stop us for going for our last dive for the day. The boatmen took us to the back of an island where the "storm" was blocked by the island. It was still raining there but other then that, everything was so calm. No choppy water, no current and no wind.
Tis is getting too long, cut short. Went for third dive, it was great, many more fishes many more corals and many more gigantic rocks. Dinner then sleep as I caught a bad cold and it is blocking my nose. You can't dive when you got block nose cos you will not be able to equalize when diving. The others were playing cards and enjoying themselves with the night breeze while I had to rest. Sianz to the max.
Woke up feeling okay and went for my final two dives before we head back home. The last two dives was fun and exciting as it was leisure dives. During the first dive, I had a hard time trying to equalise and had to blow very hard just to equalise. Other then that, we swam around and there were so many things to see, beautiful corals, lots of fishes but I don't know any of their names... Oh the only one I know, clown fish.. :pOne word to describe it, awesome!
After I surface, realised that from the blowing of nose, my nose bled and that didn't stop me from going for my last dive. This time, I decent very slowing and it did help and it wasn't that difficult to equalise this time.
After the dive, we packed up, showered and headed back home. This time it was day time so during the slow boat ride back, we could see further and it wasn't as boring. Played games with the diving instructor through out the ride and we saw dolphins too! Two times some more. It's so different from what you see from those confined ones... :)
Then another 4 hours bus ride before we reach Singapore. Tired...
Friday, after meeting my customer at Nee Ann Poly headed straight down to International Plaza to meet all the others for our weekend trip. Meet BB at 1700 for dinner before we head down as it's going to be a long journey.
We were right on time but the others seems to be taking their own sweet time. Strolling to the shop even when they are late. Oh well, what can I say... Anyway, after checking our equipments and loading it up to the tiny van, it marks the start of our long awaited diving trip.
Four hours of ride in a super mini van sucks big time when you are tall and.. fat... Hee... The van was traveling at an average of 110km per hour... Fast huh...
Well by the time we reach Mersing it's already 2330 and the tide was really low. We had to take a smaller speed boat out to deeper water to transfer to our dive boat for the next two days.
Well I thought the van ride sucked, but the boat ride was much worst. It was late at night so there was nothing to see, nothing to do and no where to sleep as most of the spots were taken up.
So after awhile of moving up and down the boat, finally found some where to lie down with BB. It's right at the end of the boat and it was super windy, cold and uncomfortable so didn't really get to sleep much. After about 3 hours of the dreadful ride, I couldn't take it. Wanted to puke but couldn't only burp, felt better after that and tried sleeping again. When we reach Dayang, it's already 0430 in the morning. Was glad and excited about the island but the ride spoiled everything. Anyway after settling down everyone went to bed.
Woke up at 0730 had breakfast till 0900 and off we went to our first diving site, Teluran. After all the briefing, who to follow who, wait for the Dive Master to tie rope below and by the time we first jump into the water, it was already 1045. The sea was cold and salty, scary as you have totally no idea what lies/swims beneath you. When we were all ready, we started diving down one by one, I was the third one to go down. It was beautiful... Totally different from what you see up on land. Fishes, corals, lots of dead corals and lots of water.. Haha.. It's a whole new experience and environment.
Had difficulties balancing underwater, flipping here and there, holding on to the rope and waiting for everyone to come down. Everything is just so different, you are dependent on the air tank for your dear life. One small mistake and you will have lung over expansion, drown... Scary...
We did all the things we should and headed back up as my air was already low, with less then 50 bar left. Guess I was just breathing too hard and trying to get used to it, so used up oxygen very fast. In all, our first dive went pretty well, everything went as planned and everyone executed their moves correctly. Lunch time, went back to Dayang and had a quick lunch before we carry on with the dives.
We moved to Pulau Lang for our second dive. This dive, after we complete what we supposed to do, our instructor will bring us to swim around for a while. So off we went and like the previous time, everything went well and as planned, and as promised, the instructor brought us around. It was simply beautiful. Fishes swimming pass and around you, more dead corals and life corals, clown fish, gigantic rocks and many more.. I was just awsome. Then it was time to surface, up we go and when we all surfaced then we realised that it was raining and the sea was very choppy. We were bobbling up and down the sea and had a hard time trying to stay together. We had to wait for our dive boat to come and rescue us and during the time, it was really scary. Rough sea, no where to stand on and the waves were threatening to hurl us towards the rocks so we had to swim out to the open, to prevent being swept towards the island by the current.
It was took the boat close to an hour just get everyone on board.
When all on board, the weather didn't stop us for going for our last dive for the day. The boatmen took us to the back of an island where the "storm" was blocked by the island. It was still raining there but other then that, everything was so calm. No choppy water, no current and no wind.
Tis is getting too long, cut short. Went for third dive, it was great, many more fishes many more corals and many more gigantic rocks. Dinner then sleep as I caught a bad cold and it is blocking my nose. You can't dive when you got block nose cos you will not be able to equalize when diving. The others were playing cards and enjoying themselves with the night breeze while I had to rest. Sianz to the max.
Woke up feeling okay and went for my final two dives before we head back home. The last two dives was fun and exciting as it was leisure dives. During the first dive, I had a hard time trying to equalise and had to blow very hard just to equalise. Other then that, we swam around and there were so many things to see, beautiful corals, lots of fishes but I don't know any of their names... Oh the only one I know, clown fish.. :pOne word to describe it, awesome!
After I surface, realised that from the blowing of nose, my nose bled and that didn't stop me from going for my last dive. This time, I decent very slowing and it did help and it wasn't that difficult to equalise this time.
After the dive, we packed up, showered and headed back home. This time it was day time so during the slow boat ride back, we could see further and it wasn't as boring. Played games with the diving instructor through out the ride and we saw dolphins too! Two times some more. It's so different from what you see from those confined ones... :)
Then another 4 hours bus ride before we reach Singapore. Tired...
