Day 2 in Tioman and it was a good one. We started the morning with some roti canai and nasi lemak. First dive was at the Sawasdee Wrecks.I remember telling Kudinne that it was going to be a decompression dive, and it was. Like another dive site called Fan Canyon, it’s so easy to lose track of your bottom time diving these wrecks. I spent 23 minutes at the bottom and had to do 26 minutes of decompression stops starting at 24 meters through 3 meters.
Next dive was at Labas. The winds had picked up by this time so the waves were quite big and the surge could be felt all the way down. By the time we surfaced, it was raining.
Expecting calmer weather after the rain we dived at Golden Reef next. Current was strong and so was the surge. Visibility was bad too! But there were two Manta rays passing by but we couldn’t catch up with them. Then Reeno asked me to enter a relatively huge cave. I did, but having no dive light I exited the cave. Derrick then went in as he was better prepared, and hurriedly came out andd signalled that there was a shark in there. So I re-entered and still couldn’t see anything. Suddenly, Derrick switched on his light from behind me, and there it was, with a head wider than my body and I went “Holy Cow!”. I turned and never went back in. Reeno had the shark on video.
It has been a good trip but frustrating for me as I did not have a camera with me during this dive trip.
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