Dive #5: Tanjung Tokong
Date: 26 August 2006 (Saturday)
Location: Redang Island Malaysia
Time (GMT+8): 10:30
Duration: 0:45 (C.T.: 3:25)
Max Depth (m): 18.0
Sky: Cloudy
Waters: Calm
Visibility (m): 12.0
Bottom Temp (ºC): 27.0
Air (psi): 3,000/300
Surface Interval: N/A
Start P/G: N/A
End P/G: R
Dive Buddy: Soon Yean
Divemaster: John & Koh (Coral Redang)
Tanjung Tokong, located a the north end of Redang Island is right next to the turtle bay. Sadly, I didn't encounter any turtles this time.
We were mostly following John through and over hill like reefs to avoid mild currents. I quite enjoyed the experience because it meant we had to stay close to the ocean floor. The view of aquatic life is much better when you do a close-up. More over, I enjoyed the challenge of making sure I had enough buoyancy to stay off the corals.
This time around, we had an u/w camera rented from Redang Pelangi Resort (RM40/day). Here are some of the pictures as captured by SY & Chewy.
Just a bunch of snorkellers
I need super-strong water-proof hair gel, or simply a different hairstyle
Another addition to SY's collection of Superman poses
Crown of Thorns Starfish
The pictures that came out weren't that great because we have literally no experience with underwater photography. And it was even tougher that the lighting at 10m and deeper is distorted. The red in light is all filtered out by the time you get to that depth. Wish we had a strobe light attached to the camera.
The photography ended when SY ran out of air and Chewy took him to the surface. As I still had enough to last another 10 minutes or so, Chewy signaled me to keep with the group, and so I did. It just didn't cross my mind to get the camera from SY before rejoining the group.
But then again, I don't think I saw anything that interesting that I wanted a picture of. I was just enjoying the dive. Enjoying so much that I didn't realize I had already passed the minimum air level. We're supposed to signal low-on-air at 700psi. I was at 500psi by the time I noticed. And by the time I found Koh to go up with me, with the 5m 3min safety stop, I was really low by the time I got out of the water. I really have to pay more attention next time. "Gauges & computers only work if you check them".
Location: Redang Island Malaysia
Time (GMT+8): 10:30
Duration: 0:45 (C.T.: 3:25)
Max Depth (m): 18.0
Sky: Cloudy
Waters: Calm
Visibility (m): 12.0
Bottom Temp (ºC): 27.0
Air (psi): 3,000/300
Surface Interval: N/A
Start P/G: N/A
End P/G: R
Dive Buddy: Soon Yean
Divemaster: John & Koh (Coral Redang)
Tanjung Tokong, located a the north end of Redang Island is right next to the turtle bay. Sadly, I didn't encounter any turtles this time.
We were mostly following John through and over hill like reefs to avoid mild currents. I quite enjoyed the experience because it meant we had to stay close to the ocean floor. The view of aquatic life is much better when you do a close-up. More over, I enjoyed the challenge of making sure I had enough buoyancy to stay off the corals.
This time around, we had an u/w camera rented from Redang Pelangi Resort (RM40/day). Here are some of the pictures as captured by SY & Chewy.
Just a bunch of snorkellers
I need super-strong water-proof hair gel, or simply a different hairstyle
Another addition to SY's collection of Superman poses
Crown of Thorns Starfish
The pictures that came out weren't that great because we have literally no experience with underwater photography. And it was even tougher that the lighting at 10m and deeper is distorted. The red in light is all filtered out by the time you get to that depth. Wish we had a strobe light attached to the camera.
The photography ended when SY ran out of air and Chewy took him to the surface. As I still had enough to last another 10 minutes or so, Chewy signaled me to keep with the group, and so I did. It just didn't cross my mind to get the camera from SY before rejoining the group.
But then again, I don't think I saw anything that interesting that I wanted a picture of. I was just enjoying the dive. Enjoying so much that I didn't realize I had already passed the minimum air level. We're supposed to signal low-on-air at 700psi. I was at 500psi by the time I noticed. And by the time I found Koh to go up with me, with the 5m 3min safety stop, I was really low by the time I got out of the water. I really have to pay more attention next time. "Gauges & computers only work if you check them".
posted by Mervyn at 3:07 AM
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