Got back from my dive trip last night where I had a very memorable n enjoyable time onboard 'My Seaborne'. It was a 3 days/ 3 nights live aboard diving trip and it was a great experience. Imagine staying on a boat for 3 whole days n nightz. I still haven got used to being on solid land yet.
We reached Mersing, which is about 2 hrs drive from JB at about 2am becos the bus driver was later n there was a huge human jam at the Malaysian customs where we were stuck for about 45 mins to 1 hr. We only reached JB n changed to a coach at bout 11.15pm n by the time everyone was accounted for it was 11.30pm. When we reached Mersing we had wait for a transfer to a small boat, which took us to 'My Seaborne'. It was during this waiting period tt i lost 2 Ramly burgers in a bet to Chin, a fellow Hainanese n a dive leader on this trip. Till now i haven given him his burger yet. Think I’ll owe him for a very very long time. By the time we boarded the boat, it was already close to 3am. We had a short briefing n then we went to find our cabin. There was an upper n lower deck n i took the upper deck leaving the lower deck to my sis n wendy. There was very little rm to move ard in the cabin n i had trouble sitting up on the upper deck. I think i hit my head more then 10 times on the whole trip including the knocks i had taken when i was on the deck.
We reached Mersing, which is about 2 hrs drive from JB at about 2am becos the bus driver was later n there was a huge human jam at the Malaysian customs where we were stuck for about 45 mins to 1 hr. We only reached JB n changed to a coach at bout 11.15pm n by the time everyone was accounted for it was 11.30pm. When we reached Mersing we had wait for a transfer to a small boat, which took us to 'My Seaborne'. It was during this waiting period tt i lost 2 Ramly burgers in a bet to Chin, a fellow Hainanese n a dive leader on this trip. Till now i haven given him his burger yet. Think I’ll owe him for a very very long time. By the time we boarded the boat, it was already close to 3am. We had a short briefing n then we went to find our cabin. There was an upper n lower deck n i took the upper deck leaving the lower deck to my sis n wendy. There was very little rm to move ard in the cabin n i had trouble sitting up on the upper deck. I think i hit my head more then 10 times on the whole trip including the knocks i had taken when i was on the deck.
*m3, wEndY n m3iYinG aT kRanGi wAitiNg fOr tHe bUs tO jB*
*niGhT viEw oF SiNg fRoM jB*
*m3iYinG n w3ndY oNbOarD Th3 cOacH tO m3rSinG*
*m3 oNbOarD tHe cOacH tO mErsiNg*
*niGhT viEw oF SiNg fRoM jB*
*m3iYinG n w3ndY oNbOarD Th3 cOacH tO m3rSinG*
*m3 oNbOarD tHe cOacH tO mErsiNg*
The next morning we were woken up by Dave (another dive leader) at 7.30am. I think i slept not more than 3 hrs tt night. We had 3 dives at the Kuantan Wrecks tt day, which were World War 2 Japanese shipwrecks, n the 3 of us were led by Victor (aka ah gong) who was also our Open Water dive instructor. Our routine for the 3 days were eat, dive, eat, slp, dive. During our dives, we saw lots of interesting fishes n corals. We saw the gaint grouper, blue spotted ray, moray eel, lion fish, nurse shark (although we only saw the pic cos the previous gp released it b4 we had a chance to c it. We were the gp tt was supposed to release it.) The 2nd day we dived at Tenggol Island. The 4 dives were all very disappointing dives as the current was very strong n the water was like very cold one moment n then warm another moment then a mixture of very cold n warm water. It was very confused waters but it was a great experience although it was a very disappointing dive at Tenggol. During the times in between dives, we played mahjong n big 2. We were operating a mini casino onboard the boat. Haha. Even the kids learned how to play mahjong. I also learned how to play 7 ppl big 2 where there was an 'asshole' n a 'shit'. The normal big 2 game also involved the loser with the most no of cards to dive into the water from the second deck or the sun deck which is the third n highest deck which are quite high. I think I jump down bout 3 or 4 times ba. On the 3rd day, we had our last dive at Tioman (Tiger Reef). After tt it was lunch while we headed back to Mersing n then back to Singapore. Overall i think this trip was very fun n memorable where the food was good, the instructors were very helpful n fun n i made a lot of new frens n also learned some new hainanese words. I'm really looking forward to my next dive trip (hopefully tt trip is when i'll be taking my Advanced Level Diver License. I only put up some photos tt were taken from my cam. Got no underwater photos cos my cam canot go underwater. Will be posting some more photos when i receive them from the other divers.
*m3 oNboArd mY sEaBorNe*
*wEndY*
*mEiYinG*
*LiNnY, m3, mArk n dAvE enJoYinG a GamE oF mAhjOng iN bEtwEen diVes*
*eAgLe sPotTeD aT teNgGoL iSlaNd*
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