My Thoughts @ My Feeling @ My Day: Tioman - 27/07/07

Finally its our yrly diving affair. Went to Kim Keat Temple to pray for safety (Ma-zhu goddness of the sea), before heading down to BRS. There are altogether 9 of us; 3 OWS students, 1 refresher, 3 leisure divers, 1 instructor and 1 dive master ("DM"). While waiting for the speedboat transfer to the main boat, we went to the pub at Mersing jetty for a quick drink.

Us at the pub

The boat ride to Tioman is much better and shorter than dayang (only 3 hrs). And thanks to uncle Sing, our DM who managed to get for me and Law a "bed" in the boat, if not we would be frozen in front of the aircon (our original seatings).

We stayed at Island Reef Resort at Tioman. Its much better than the resort that we stayed at Dayang too as the rooms are in Kampong Huts and we have our own toilet with hot water and also blankets!

At the bottom ("entrance") of the resort
As the resort is sort of on top of the slope, we have to climb these stairs everyday.

The path to the right leads to our hut. So Kampong like right? Hee..

Look at that bed and the size of the room! So much better than Dayang!

We had altogether 5 dives, with 3 on sat and 2 on sun. The visibility underwater at Tioman is consider much poorer as compared to Dayang, but we did see different fishes here. In this particular trip, we saw lots and lots of barracudas! They are in school and at one pt of time, they are swimming ard us and we were liked being covered by them. Cut off with our surrounding. The feeling is great! Its like u r in the middle of a tornado! We also saw puffer fish, turtles on 2 separate dives, 3 feeding stingrays mini and also huge moray with blue mouth.

Other rare fishes that we saw include Juvenile Harlequin Sweetlips and seapen. The Sweetlips is a clown fish look-aliked but instead of the normal fins, its fins are longer and more ribbonery. When it grown up, it would change. As for the seapen, its like a stalk of seagrass which would retreat into the seabed when u touch it.

A Sea Pen

The wreck dive is the most memorable dive of this trip. The boats are being sunk on purpose to create the wreck. Its my very first wreck dive and no doubt that they are only small boats, its already very majestic! Even though we knew that they are being sunk on purpose, however, they still seems very errie...can sort of visualise Titantic.. Too bad my u/w camera housing die on me and cant stop condensing. So didnt manage to take any decent u/w photos.

One thing good abt Tioman is that they have shops at the jetty. Thus on sat night after dinner, we went dwn there for some supper and chit chat session.