Sunday, July 13, 2008

Finding Nemo....


Just spent a few days diving in Pulau Tioman in Malaysia. Managed to do our PADI Advanced Open Water Diving thing, which involved very fun night diving (with cool phosphorescent algae in the water) and very fun deep dive (30m) to a couple of wrecks, where we saw several very poisonous Lion fish (see picture). We also had to do a few mental tests on the surface and at depth to see if we were affected by nitrogen narcosis. I managed to do mental arithmetic underwater but got totally lost on a simple hand game... then started to giggle. Kat wasn't at all affected, but was very amused by my behaviour.... Kind of like getting mildly stoned underwater.

We also learned more buoyancy skills (I can now float/hover upside down, which is fun). Plus a slightly tedious navigation skills dive (swim in a line, a square, a triangle)

One of the best bits was spotting a sea snake, which swam past us, dived, then did a few cool loops before falling asleep under some coral....

Again! Again!

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