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2nd Day of Fasting

My blood pressure shot up yesterday…this is bad as I get stressed everytime I walk into the office. Especially after a dive trip.

Spent the day today recovering…at RecNTec logging on to the Net and for the first time in weeks, posted on the MDC Forum myself.

Yusmar and I have signed up for the Advanced Nitrox course and by next week we should be certified as qualified Advanced Nitrox Divers.

Had a good time too breaking the fast with Erik, Faizal, Shamsul, Yusmar, Nazri and Ling.

I still feel as if the world spins around me. Must be due to reverse blockage while surfacing the other day.

I need to go back into the water.

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Thus The End of the East Coast Dive Season For Me…

It was a good weekend dive trip. I’d achieved what I went there for, which was to meet the tenant of one of my father’s land, and also to explore the possibility of opening up a resort business.

I did 5 dives: Fan Canyon (night dive), Tiger Reef, Labas Island, Chebeh Island (night dive), and the standard farewell dive at the Soyak Wrecks.

Time to soak my equipment in a pool somewhere and hang them to dry….for at least 4 months.

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Excuse To Go Diving

I went on an Emergency Leave. My reason was, someone had passed away. And I had to drive to Johor. The two statements are not necessarily related. Lots of people passed away that day. And it was true I was driving to Mersing in Johor.

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If Divers Are Wet and Dive Deep…

Giant Squids Do It Deeper!!

One year's supply of calamari rings!!!

Recently 5 Giant Squids (Architeuthis), one of them 12 meters long, were washed ashore on the beaches of the Bay of Biscay.

Two of the males were found to have been accidentaly inseminated.

Crikey! I thought it was just me and the wife, and millions other human beings who get inseminated accidentally.

Read on on the link up there.

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Tioman 1982

Taken on my second dive (or was it third)?

Anyway, it was during the 2nd school term holidays (nowadays they go by semesters) in July 1982, and I went to Tioman island for the very first time on board the Marine Police patrol boat PZ4 (Kapal Polis DiRaja Lang Kuik), which has now been passed to the new Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency. The journey was from the naval base at Tanjung Gelang straight to Tekek. The CO, DSP Michael Lee, asked me if I could swim, and being a school swimmer, I said yes. So he said once we arrive in Tioman he’d take me scuba diving. So there I was, I donned this stoopid looking mask, J-valve tank on a backpack (nobody’s heard of a BCD then), and a pair of “two for RM10” fins and did my first dive at Renggis. That was the first time I scuba-dived, saw my first swimming turtle, my first black-tip reef shark. No RDP, nothing. Not even an air gauge. All I had was this crude looking depth gauge (in Imperial unit). I ran out of air at 70 feet..literally. That was how I knew I no longer had any air. So I removed my backpack, and yanked on this yoke for spare air, and immediately surfaced to the waiting assault boat.

Safety stop? What da fock is that? This was 1982, remember?

Come to think of it, it was my third dive when this photo was taken. I did a solo dive earlier that morning. Haha, yes, solo.

I was 16 years old..I was invincible. What was there to be scared of?