Tioman Diving trip
At 9:40 PM on
Sunday, July 20, 2008
everyone has a to do list before they die... i have a to do list before i get married..ahahah.. and one of the things to do is to do diving... had always wanted to dive since sec school day but never got around doing it.
When dear got to hearing it, he decided to act on it and booked us lessons and a dive trip to Tioman with Sunny Cove Diving school.
Pool training was done in a sec sch's swimming pool and though i was apprehensive at first, i found the training real fun...
Then comes the real thing,we set off on Fri and took a day to reach Tioman.. once we reach tioman,our rooms were not ready and our diving instructor told us "lets go for our first dive first!" wah... so sudden.... quite scared.
at the first dive, we were taught how to descent.. so funny.. our instructors tied a rope on the sea floor and we were holding on to it and he signalled to us to follow him when all of us were on the floor...
what happened next was super funny: once we let go of the rope, we all found ourselves floating up to the surface! so funny. all of us din not wear enough weights! ahahahah... that was our first dive and i cut my leg on the dead coral...
2nd, 3rd & 4th dive were all dives with drills and it was quite fun, though tiring cos of the air tank that we have to carry in and out..super heavy sia...
5th dive was our graduation dive.. a totally leisure dive...need not think about pivot fins and stuff like that.
We called our instructor the " turtle man" cos he says he always see turtles wan.. but the other instructors say not easy to see.. but every dive we saw turtles! ahahahha...
here are the pics!
Blue spotted sting ray!
"Turtle Man" with one of the 4 turtles we saw!
Nemos! saw alot of them!
Our group on the sea floor. our group had advanced divers and they were all pro with their underwater cameras.. and they took photos for us..
i am the highest there! i always float up...
Couple photo before our graduation dive..
Couple photo underwater
Turtle man on the left, and our instructor on the right....
All in all, it was a real exciting trip... finally got to do what i always wanted to do and got dear to accompany me.
diving is real fun but its real tiring! the going in and coming back on the boat after every trip made me real exhausted... i din get the " i must do it again soon" feeling at all. neither did dear. ahahahah.... but overall, it was a fun trip and i got to do it with dear.. Kisses,
fifteenmay