Tinggi Trip!

Hi guys!

back from Pulau Tinggi! It's the first trip our batch of committe organise since we took over!

Anyway, it was a pretty good turn out! We had 16 people - 10 OW, 4 ADv and 2 Leisure! (all excluding comm members!) Well done!

the jetty where we hop on to our dive and speed boats!

ok,some brief updates.

The resort was great! haha.. it's the best landbase resort that i've stayed before! (then again, the trips I've done are mostly LOB.. so... haha) The bed is just nice, not too hard, not too soft.. The air-con is cold and the toilet! omg.. we have to talk about the toilet! Other than the lizard scare, the toilet is perfect! warm showers and in-prefect-condition flushing and tap system! haha..

Ok, now about the dive trip itself. Visibility was pretty bad throughout the entire trip..which was quite saddening.. :( the most memorable dive for me was our frist check-out dive. It was at Siberah Besar. The dive site was so shallow that we were practically snorkelling with our tanks most of the time. Ok, partly because we lost our dive leader, so most of the time we were just 'snorkelling' near the boat.. hahaha..The dive site had a sandy bottom and we had fun trying to look out for dugongs! haha.. Of course, we did not find any. :P

(clockwise direction: 1. Dive Briefing, 2. Divers sun tanning, 3. soaking in the pool during surface interval.)

We had some hiccups during the trip too. It was some public holiday when we went, so most of the boatmen were actually on holiday. Therefore, we only had 1 diveboat. Thus, the leisure divers had to hop on to some speedboats that would bring us to our dive sites. Luckily all the leisure divers were advance and above, so we did backward roll into the water! It was fun diving in backward roll but definitely not very fun when getting back into the speedboat! We had so much trouble getting back into the speedboat! It was as if the speedboat was going to capsize any moment when we were climbing back to the speedboat!

1 lesson learnt: always bring motion sickness pills when you go diving. hahaha.. we had a couple of divers who got motion sickness and ended up feeding fish in the water! ok, I got motion sickness too but that was because of the bumpy speedboat rides! :P

Our newly certifies Open Water Divers!