Perhentian Island Dive @ 4/5/2006

Yup… its another dive trip. I have not been diving since I got my OWD license... thus, this is gonna be the 1st time I step my feet on Perhentian Island and also my 1st ever leisure dive since I “graduated”… ( last year only mer... )... : P


I only manage to do 4 dives during my 5D4N stay at Perhentian… Reasons being is I don’t have a dive buddy with same dive level as me coz J “ffk“ last minute... VP + Alv is taking their AOWD certification course and other 6 going for their OWD course... : (
However, VP did brought along our Setia Dive Master, Vic… Thanks to Vic for being my dive buddy or else I wouldn’t have the chance to tryout my very 1st multilevel dive ( 2nd dive ) which suppose can be done by certified AOWD only…Multilevel dive means you will dive up and down and, slowly escalate the depth till last touring at the safety stop depth level in order to balance back your compression level, where you don’t need a physical safety stop before surface… : D

I’ve also tried the wreck dive ( 4th dive ) which is approx. 23m / 65 feet depth with 1 of the combat diver from TUDM as my dive buddy… Wreck dive is consider as an deep dive which also suppose can only be done by certified AOWD because the skill is totally different as compared to what’ve certified OWD learnt. The feeling is like… something heavy pressing on your heart that caused you having difficulty in breathing where you need to learn more skills in AOWD course / to be skillful enough to control your breathing + buoyancy because this is due to lung compression when you dive. The deeper you dive, the harder you breathe… and of course also the faster your oxygen tank will exhaust.

Other than that, your stamina also needs to be strong when there is current during your dive because you may need to fight against the current in order to tour around the dive site / surface back to your boat or else, if you opt to do drift dive to save your energy underwater, you will probably ends up surfaced far away from where you back-rowed and you have no choice but swim all the way back to the boat. Luckily I didn’t able to complete the other deep dive ( 3rd dive ), I surfaced once I’ve touched down to bottom at approx. 60 feet depth because strong current took place and it kept pushing me away from my buddy + water goes into my mask… that’s also where Vic they all met a big group of trigger fish and they have to swim hardly and tiredly to escape from being attack. I wouldn’t be able to escape if I’m down under the water cause my stamina is poor… further more I don’t know how to swim… Sigh… : S As for my 1st dive, I only able to stay at approx. 12m depth and instead of goes down till bottom at 18m depth because I can’t equalize my ears, it was terrible painful… most likely its because that I had stop diving for quite some time and my body not used to the pressure at that point of time / too tired / imbalance of body pressure after flight boarding gua... But overall, we do had an enjoyable and fun dive trip together where all came home with extra nicknames such as "Ramli", "Kopi" etc… : P

…the worst day diving is better than the best day working… =_=