Came back from riyadh on wednesday excited about the boat trip on thursday with Omar/Suhair. As this is my first boat dive, definately looking forward to it. Woke up around 6 in the morning to have a light breakfast, and check all my gears. At 6.30 sharp, the taxi came and off we go heading towards the marina. The trip took about 30 minutes, and the marina is full of people eventhough its only 7am! The boat was scheduled to leave at 7.30am but due to some latecomers, we only left the harbour around 8am. take about time concious people. Tsk tsk tsk...
Reach the open sea and the view was ... blue! no land in sight. and endless horizon of blue. Our boat captain was navigating with no maps. Only a compass and the GPS device (i guess thats all your need). And when he just stopped in the middle of nowhere, saying that we have reached our first dive site. Gearing up and into the water, and when we looked down its was a whole stretch of coral reefs. Right smack in the middle of the ocean, with no reference point at all. haHAHa.... separated into 2 groups (Open Water / Advanced) and down we went. It was different with diving at the beach. This is totally new and exciting. Althought there weren't as much fishes as the beach (due to the wide area of corals, the fishes are all spread out). Pictures were taken (Hopefully i would get some pictures with me in it) and we stayed down for about 30minutes.
Once we have all safely board the boat, the captain took us to the 2nd dive site known as the Wreck. An actual ship wreck site. hehehe ... But my ears started to give me problems once the boat started. Halfway thru the journey, dolphins started to swim beside our boat! And they were jumping out of the water, doing their dolphin thingie. We started counting and there was about 6 or 7 of them. Wild dolphons! Swimming in the open sea! Sure beats those you see in the SeaWorld or whatever Zoo.
We reached our dive site around 2pm and the sun was shinning BRIGHTLY! felt like burning the skin it did. I didn't go in for the this dive, cause my ears are still giving my discomfort. Darn....
to be continued....
Reach the open sea and the view was ... blue! no land in sight. and endless horizon of blue. Our boat captain was navigating with no maps. Only a compass and the GPS device (i guess thats all your need). And when he just stopped in the middle of nowhere, saying that we have reached our first dive site. Gearing up and into the water, and when we looked down its was a whole stretch of coral reefs. Right smack in the middle of the ocean, with no reference point at all. haHAHa.... separated into 2 groups (Open Water / Advanced) and down we went. It was different with diving at the beach. This is totally new and exciting. Althought there weren't as much fishes as the beach (due to the wide area of corals, the fishes are all spread out). Pictures were taken (Hopefully i would get some pictures with me in it) and we stayed down for about 30minutes.
Once we have all safely board the boat, the captain took us to the 2nd dive site known as the Wreck. An actual ship wreck site. hehehe ... But my ears started to give me problems once the boat started. Halfway thru the journey, dolphins started to swim beside our boat! And they were jumping out of the water, doing their dolphin thingie. We started counting and there was about 6 or 7 of them. Wild dolphons! Swimming in the open sea! Sure beats those you see in the SeaWorld or whatever Zoo.
We reached our dive site around 2pm and the sun was shinning BRIGHTLY! felt like burning the skin it did. I didn't go in for the this dive, cause my ears are still giving my discomfort. Darn....
to be continued....
1 comments:
abang...may be a case of reverse block, if symptoms persist, best to see a doctor.
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