Tuesday 5 January 2010

Scuba Diving

Try in the Pool

Two days before my family and I went scuba diving, my sisters and I had to learn about the equipment and get familiar with the equipment under water.









They explained these things and what they do:
  • BCD (Buoyancy Device)
  • Fins
  • Mask
  • Regulators
  • Indicators/Instruments
The instructors also taught us things under water:

  • Cleaning/Clearing the mask
  • Bouyancy
  • Signals



Diving in Sponge Reef In Malaysia

The boat trip to the reef was about 1 hour from Langkawi. We first dropped of the snorkelers and then continued to the reef. Just before we went diving an instructor reminded us of most important things we needed to know. I dived in first and I found the visibility very bad because of the green algae bloom, there was also a strong current. I did two dives, the first dive I only went 25ft down but saw a huge Napoleon fish, lion fish, lots of parrot fish, a moray eel, clown fish and many other. I went up for lunch and then dived again after that. My second dive was better than the first because a saw more different fish and a hawks bill turtle, the turtle was 45ft down under water and I was the first in my family to see it. After 40 minutes under water, I surfaced slwley and went back on to the boat.

6 comments:

Toms Awesome Homework said...
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Michael said...

Thomas I didn't realize you were going to be under the water as well as on top.

Are these pics you took? If so, you did a great job. Underwater photography is not easy to accomplish.

mh

Yash said...

Nice pics, are those actually the pictures you took? Or are they off the internet

Nate said...

cool that you saw thes fishs.

Anonymous said...

Cool, did you have to do like a test and get a licence to go scuba diving, because my brother had to spend like a week learning how to dive in his trip to lombok

Anonymous said...

Yo! First comment from Tas.