I am certify as an Open Water Diver !
I am back from Palau Dayang... It is a very beautiful island in Malaysia but a bit far…
We were on the van for about 3 hour before we reach Mersing (Jetty to take boat to Dayang), then another 3 hours on the boat to reach Dayang. When we reached the island, it’s already about 4 am in the morning. We checked in the bunk and quickly had our nap before we officially started our 1st dive in the sea. But no matter how hard we tried to sleep we still felt that we are drifting and seem like on the boat. This drifting feeling followed with us till the day we back home we were all still feeling it.
All of us were very excited and scared. Firstly was because we were very beginner to diving, as it’s our first open water sea dive, secondly were because we were pretty afraid of the sea creatures, wondering what will they do to us.
Before we sunk down to the sea bed, we could see the corals on the boat when we look down, the water is really crystal clear. Then we were guided down by a rope as they afraid that we’ll drifted elsewhere since it’s our first dive. We took our exam at the first dive with the instructor – Vincent Tan aka Dr Tan, and a Dive Master - Han Yong, guided us along, with all the fishes swimming in front of us. It really wonderful experiences that make me forget about my fear. Although I suffered some cuts on my knees and palm but its all worth it.
The scariest dive was the 4th one, whereby we had an early departure on our second day. We did a dawn dive whereby the water visibility was very bad. Our vision was only about 10 meter thus we were only able to see our buddy. I am very scared that I couldn’t sink at first as I was experiencing some panic. Eventually I managed to calm myself down and sink to the bottom of the sea bed and it’s where the beautiful world appears.
During this dive I managed to see a String ray, some corals, “caterpillar”, other sea creatures that I dunno them as I unable to indentify by their names and not forgetting our guardian “Sea Cucumber” (as we seeing it almost throughout our dive no matter where we are and how bad visibility the water were.)
When our days finally came to an end, with exhaustion, I really can’t bear to leave the island. I really miss the place that till now I’m pestering my friends to go on a local dive with me. I even had a rush to take my Advance Open Water Dive as soon as possible before I leave in February. (My friends are thinking that I am insane.) Diving has really taken away my “soul”… I really miss it…
I WANT TO GO DIVING!
PS: I love Diving to the MAX!
We were on the van for about 3 hour before we reach Mersing (Jetty to take boat to Dayang), then another 3 hours on the boat to reach Dayang. When we reached the island, it’s already about 4 am in the morning. We checked in the bunk and quickly had our nap before we officially started our 1st dive in the sea. But no matter how hard we tried to sleep we still felt that we are drifting and seem like on the boat. This drifting feeling followed with us till the day we back home we were all still feeling it.
All of us were very excited and scared. Firstly was because we were very beginner to diving, as it’s our first open water sea dive, secondly were because we were pretty afraid of the sea creatures, wondering what will they do to us.
Before we sunk down to the sea bed, we could see the corals on the boat when we look down, the water is really crystal clear. Then we were guided down by a rope as they afraid that we’ll drifted elsewhere since it’s our first dive. We took our exam at the first dive with the instructor – Vincent Tan aka Dr Tan, and a Dive Master - Han Yong, guided us along, with all the fishes swimming in front of us. It really wonderful experiences that make me forget about my fear. Although I suffered some cuts on my knees and palm but its all worth it.
The scariest dive was the 4th one, whereby we had an early departure on our second day. We did a dawn dive whereby the water visibility was very bad. Our vision was only about 10 meter thus we were only able to see our buddy. I am very scared that I couldn’t sink at first as I was experiencing some panic. Eventually I managed to calm myself down and sink to the bottom of the sea bed and it’s where the beautiful world appears.
During this dive I managed to see a String ray, some corals, “caterpillar”, other sea creatures that I dunno them as I unable to indentify by their names and not forgetting our guardian “Sea Cucumber” (as we seeing it almost throughout our dive no matter where we are and how bad visibility the water were.)
When our days finally came to an end, with exhaustion, I really can’t bear to leave the island. I really miss the place that till now I’m pestering my friends to go on a local dive with me. I even had a rush to take my Advance Open Water Dive as soon as possible before I leave in February. (My friends are thinking that I am insane.) Diving has really taken away my “soul”… I really miss it…
I WANT TO GO DIVING!
PS: I love Diving to the MAX!
posted by Jasmine at 5/22/2009 11:29:00 AM
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