Well, what can i say? I absolutely loved it! It felt weird having to think you can breathe underwater or be deep down 20-30meters for an hour not needing any oxygen. After all the excitement from my diving friends, and from the video we had to view during the course. We headed down to the shore with our heavy ass equipment and tank to do our first confine water training. At first it was so difficult, and after i took 4-5 breathes without panicking, i felt like those fishes swimming next to me. Felt so surreal, i am actually breathing underwater?! We continued to finish all our skills before heading to our first dive the next afternoon.
Tiga Ruang was the first dive site we went to, unfortunately we did not capture any pictures due to our noobness level, so baby and i decided to leave the camera back home and focus on our buoyancy instead haha :D We only brought the camera out at the fourth dive onwards, but we were so eager to test our "underwater casing" and this is what we took at the shore while snorkeling.. haha!
Sea Cucumber, weird texture feeling :P
Chilling with Andy, our instructor
Okay, off to our fourth dive at Batu Layar, it was indeed our Open water graduation dive! We had to get our compass navigation, and hovering right, thank goodness everything went well, and we passed with flying colors! It was also the first time i took the camera out, so we were shooting at everything and anything, lol, but our buoyancy weren't that good yet so we kinda struggled a bit while taking photos =P But that's not going to stop us from shooting, here are some of the shots from that dive, enjoy =)
Baby and Andy doing cesa (control emergency swimming ascent) If you ever run out of air, you gotta do this to get up.
Yellow tail Snappers
If i am not wrong, this is a group of Bat Fish
Baby & I celebrating underwater. HEHE!
Alright there aren't many nice fish shots in that dive, but it was just memorable knowing we finally finish our open water course! But i am super lazy to post dive by dive, so i will just randomly upload them. Trust me, this section will not disappoint you =) I will try my best to name the type of fish but if i get it wrong, my bad =P Enjoy the underwater marine life's!!
Yellow Tail Barracudas
I have a video of them up close. Shall post it up some day when i have the time
Bat-Fish
Golden Trevally
Razor Fish (freaking cool, they move up-side-down, lol)
Up close Yellow Tail Barracudas ( One of my favorite fish )
Nudibranch, some kind of sea-slugs
Messing with Andy
Learning our advance natural & compass navigation
Our first underwater kiss =P KUSJE!
Our 7th dive was at Teluk Pauh, it was one of my most memorable one. I saw a lot of cool marine lifes, and guess what? I got most of them on camera! This dive was lead by one of the other instructor called Nafie. So happy to have dived twice with him, he knows where all the fish are hiding and where they usually be. This is his 8th year in Perhentian island, and he has seen the Whale Shark each damn year, so far none yet 2009, but i don't think he really cares anymore. LoL, anyway enjoy the pictures below!
Trigger Fish, this dude is scary! He attacks when he feels stress or disturbed!
and this is a really BIG one
Blue Spotted Stingray
Lion Fish on defensive mode. (All Spread Up)
Anemone (Where FalseClown Fish aka. Nemo lives)
There he is =) Anemonefish or False Clown Fish
They are really photogenic
Camera shy =D
They look angry! @_@ haha, super cute
Sea-Fan Coral
A Rare Honeycomb Moray Eel
Perfect shot
Porcupine fish (Or Star Puffer, i have no idea how to spot the diff)
6 Banded Blue-ringed Angel Fish
Giant Clam
Beautiful ain't it ?
Cleaner Shrimps, omfg cute and beautiful!
Put your hand to where they are, and they will slowly nibble some dirt of your hand
JAWS! ! ! ! ! ! ! HaHa, it's just a Black tip Shark
NICE? HAHAHA Yes, i know! It's brilliant. I have viewed the pictures a million times now, and each time i go through them again, it gives me goosebumps. But that isn't all, i still have a lot of other pictures to share with you guys, but i think it's enough for this entry. I shall create a part 2 for this Perhentian entry, hopefully with videos if i am not too lazy. What can you expect in the part 2? Hmm let me see, my favourite dive of all, the Night dive! =) Eventho the pics are pretty bad (IT'S REALLY DARK and the camera somehow suck at night) But i will still post some good ones and my last few dives in the island =)
Til' then, good night people and if you are interested to dive in Perhentian. Do let me know, i will try to hook you up with my wonderful instructor. Cheer's all
Paradise