Another wacky night

The Chivaz model try-out

And the winner goes to........

A special request...

... from a friend to put up his so-called winning pic




















but how???





















With his easy protruding yellow holds, and my hardly-any-area-to-grab-on blue holds ;-P

Drink dive, you bloody idiot.

I never believed it until I tried it. Woke up this morning with a very very unpleasant hangover. Dragged myself out of bed and thought sea sick pill might save the day. So we got on the boat, went out to the sea and it was f***king choppy!!! Every little slump after a broken wave was adding to the crack in my head. Then I thought, "if only I could teleport myself back to bed".



After an hour or so, we finally arrived at our dive site. While waiting for others to put on their gears, the boat was rocking left, right, up, down, I felt so sick in the stomach. Luckily (?) I forced myself to puke the night before, there was nothing left this morning.

First plunge, 10m into the water, we couldn't find the wreck and had to go back up. Putting on and taking off the gears was a bitch!!! Second dive, a few metres away, 29m deep, we saw the Blue Water Wreck. It was a large Philippines fishing trawler, which caught fire and sank in 1981.



















This was my first deep dive as part of my Advanced course, so we had to do a little exercise to test if I experience nitrogen narcosis (symptoms such as sleepiness, poor judgement, euphoria, false sense of security etc). I was timed as I wrote A to Z on land, and in water 30m deep to watch out for huge variation. Worried that the excess alcohol in my body might have impact, I manipulated and wrote slower on land. Heh heh.

After a surface interval of an hour and half, we dived at our next site, the Cement Wreck. It was a freighter which sank while transporting cement to Brunei to build the Sultan's palace. Unfortunately, we had to abandon the dive due to poor visibility.

The only picture I took on the way down: -














Filled with hopes, we decided to look for a shallower reef for our next dive, and at the same time, practise our underwater navigation. But all hopes gone when it started raining. And it's not funny when you sit on a speeding boat going against the rain with the rain drops slapping your face.

But some smart arse divers fought..

Happy Ramadhan

It was a public holiday yesterday, an opportunity to go to the sea, which we did.

1st dive at Bolkiah Wreck. Half an hour or so from Muara port, the ship was used by Brunei armies as a target. Amazing how it was still somewhat intact in the sea. Visibility was pretty good too.






































During our surface interval, we'd normally eat like a horse. But we didn't...coz boatman was puasa-ing. Instead, I fooled around taking pics. Ohh and learnt how to take really close up pics with macro. Haha. And if it's on your mind...yes...I'm a dumbo...if it's not, now you know ;-P

















En route to CLEAR reef (reef we discovered during our last dive), we came across yet another anonymous reef, which we name, the Ramadhan reef.










































Before heading back, they decided to catch some fish for sungkai.

















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Dive No1: Bolkiah Wreck, Muara
Time In: 10.46am
Time Out: 11.29am
Depth: 22.3m

Dive No2: Ramadhan Reef
Time In: 12.32pm
Time Out: 1.22pm
Depth: 15.4m