YES!! I received a call this afternoon from a good buddy. There’s going to be a dive at the Prince of Wales this April…and I have been invited to dive it. Hahaha! That’s 69 meters deep.
So it’s going to be a Heliox dive with Nitrox deco.
Cool!
My Plans: march & April 2006
These are my plans for the months of march and April of 2006:
March 2006:
16-19: Perhentian Islands
21-23: Bidong Island
24-26: Mantanani Island
April 2006:
07-11: Koh Lipe
14-16: Reefballs deployment in Tioman
28-01 May: Monitoring of reefballs in Tioman
Another Death…
Another Malaysian diver death happened somewhere in Sarawak on the 4th March 2006.
Awaiting details…
Sad…sad…
Tioman 2006: Monsoon Ended?
One of the waves that was going to hit the speedboat broadside.
Critter at Roger Wreck
Critter at Roger Wreck
The instance I asked this guy for his driver’s license, he fled.
So How Was Tioman?
It was okay. Waves were between 2.5m to 3.5m high. The only outer reef we could dive was at Batu Malang.
But I enjoyed Roger Wreck.
I’ll be posting them pics up soon.
Tioman 2006 Part Deux
Friday night I shall drive down to Mersing, and start diving Tioman again Saturday. This time I have Magicienne Rock slated for a dive. I’ll also have to go to Tekek to pay a visit to some people.
Now…weather for Saturday 25th February: morning – fair, afternoon – cloudy, night – fair. Sunday 26th February: fair all day. Temperatures Max 31 Celcius and Min 23 Celcius for both days.
Tides: Saturday 25th February – Low 1220H 0.7m; High 2041H 3.3m. Sunday 26th February – Low 0341H 2.0m; High 0613H 2.1m; Low 1328H 0.6m; High 2124H 3.4m.
Moon Phase: 
Waning Crescent.
I can hardly wait. 🙂
Tioman 2006
I called up a friend at Tekek in Tioman yesterday and I was told that the weather is good albeit some strong winds…but viz is very good.
I’ll either go there this Thursday night or Friday night.
Time to taste salt water again.
On My Way Here…
Soon I’ll be diving like this.
Who needs weight belts?
Fatality at Jarak
Last week, a diver passed on at Jarak. Details are sketchy and I am surprised it didn’t even make it to the newspapers.
The deceased, Laurence Thong, an experienced diver, was found floating in the waters off Jarak. He had gone to search for a missing diver who later surfaced after the deceased re-entered the water to look for him.
Laurence’s PDC showed that he was only 9 minutes into his fatal dive.
How Deep?
How deep are the waters around Malaysia? A study in 1998 shows that the deepest part of the Malacca Strait is 105m. I’d believe this as the IJN Myoko (a Japanese heavy cruiser) was scuttled off the Selangor coast (it was towed out from Port Klang) after WW2 and now sits in 90m depth.
And contrary to popular beliefs, the waters off Sipadan DOES NOT hold the deepest of waters within Malaysia’s EEZ.
So where are the deepest waters located? Following are where the deepest waters are located, according to a Sedimentological Properties of Malaysian EEZ conducted by the Marine Department back in 1998:
Peninsular Malaysia: West Coast
5.66N 99E (around 140km WNW off Muka Head, Penang). Depth: 105m
6.16N 98.5E (around 135km WSW off Telaga Harbour, Langkawi). Depth: 103m
Peninsular Malaysia: East Coast
4.816N 105.25E (around 192km NW off Salang, Tioman). Depth: 73m
Sabah/Sarawak
6.82N 112.08E (around 442km WNW off Kota Kinabalu). Depth: 2009m
5.68N 113.08E (around 240km WNW off Labuan). Depth: 2352m
5.83N 110.95E (around 478km WNW off Labuan). Depth: they didn’t reach the bottom when the 3000m cable ran out.
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