Gebu Goes Places: Tioman el-cheapo trip 19th -21st oct 2007

here's my side of the story tongue

ahmat - scubatex
kim seng - kimseng
AD - sapertuh
shah - momo74
sheila
syariz - poisson
atan - MT_tank
ezatul - duyong95
lyla
carmen (non-MUW)
ina - sepet
farida - fafa
ariff - comrade
pisha - psha84
+ 2 non-divers

18th october 2007

at around 6:30pm, i called momo74 to go to tmn melati putra lrt station, when i was trying to tell him to go to terminal putra. ermm..

at about 8:15 pm, sapertuh and momo74 already started calling me, telling me that they're already at the taman melati putra station. i was still at mum's .. so they had to wait. at about 8:30 pm i bid farewell to mama and went to terminal putra. looked for them there.. and of course i wouldn't find them there.. cause they're at tmn melati station. sapertuh then told me to stay put and that they will come to me instead. hehehe.. tongue

at 10 pm, we're already at scubatex's shop. thot we were the last one to arrive. turned out we're among the earliest to be there. even scubatex haven't arrived. grin

after some pot pet pot pet.. we left the premise to fill up our tanks... momo, sapertuh and i literally went to fill up our tanks. we stopped for kfc. and the rest of the group already left while we're still waiting for our take-outs. scubatex then realized we're not in the convoy and called us up and told us that they'd wait for us at the senawang toll.

it's a long drive. sapertuh was kind enough to drive the whole nite, momo was also kind enough to be sapertuh's co-pilot, while i was asleep at the backseat.. mm... zzzzzzzzzzzz ...... kroh kroh

19th october 2007

we arrived at about 6 am. everyone's tired. i was too.. despite the fact that i was asleep 1/3 of the trip. undecided..

we had a quick roti canai breakfast ... well some of us did. cooll

.... before to board the ferry. (no.. we didn't take the seagull express. we took the blue water express and we registered before we left the jetty, the marine dept checked the ferry before we left, and head count was done 3 times before the ferry took off.. and they actually provided the life jackets to each passenger) we boarded the ferry at 7:30 am. and left the jetty at about 8:40 am.

marine dept did some checking. don't know what he's checking tho

each passenger gets a life jacket .. but not many were wearing them.. tongue

we arrived at about 10:00 am at kampung paya ...

our plan was to arrive at 8:30 and have breakfast and then go diving at about 9:30. alas the ferry left the jetty an hour later than expected.. so we had to move the schedule a bit. once we've arrived, we're given our room keys. we changed and hang out at the restaurant for a while to wait for our dive boat.

we got on the boat.. taken to our first dive site: soyak. it was a long ride.. almost everyone was nauseated.

empty tank also not so macho anymore.. sapertuh is ready to call it quits. tongue

but when we arrived at soyak ... everyone's up and about.. tongue

everyone seems to have forgotten the long, nauseating boat ride...

AD or sapertuh

shah - momo74

dive #1

dive site: soyak

max depth: 12.5m
time in: 12:32 pm
bottom time: 43 minutes
temperature: 29degC

our check out dive. it would've been boring until we saw a huge triggerfish feeding off some coral at this site. heheh.. took a few photos. but since i'm kinda lousy as a photographer, only one turned out fine grin

my good ol' buddy(s) ... duyong95 and momo74

more of the topless sapertuh. i was waiting for him to go naked.. but nothing laa.. embarrased

dive #2

dive site: rengis

max depth: 12.5m
time in: 2:33 pm
bottom time: 57 minutes
temperature: 29degC

saw quite a lot on this dive. the vis was far better than that of soyak. managed to make a cuttle fish angry. he was turning black when i was finally done with him. undecided..

i saw what i thot was a branch and it was actually a pipefish. and a small group of barracudas.

the poor cuttlefish... sorry eh..

the orgynizer.. scubatex

sepet..

pipefish that we saw. didn't quite get a good pic. i think there's something wrong with my sd card. tongue

barracudas.. was too far up when i saw them..

zai. showing off.

after the second dive, we decided that the nite dive would be a boat dive at 7 pm. alas, when i woke up at 7 pm no one else was awake. grin

so scubatex said the dive would be a 10 pm shore dive. since i'm a lazy diver, i skipped the nite dive.. only a handful went. so i'll just let them report their nite dives. i decided to hangout with the local kids at the jetty. winkk

20th october 2007

dive #3

dive site: Sea Fan Garden

max depth: 26.2m
time in: 9:54 am
bottom time: 46 minutes
temperature: 29degC

another long boat ride. but this time it's not so bad. everyone was sitting at the back .. grin

most of them did anyways.. here we saw sea fan ... of course. and i think i saw a few black corals here and there.. lyla this is where we saw the black corals right? or was it at batu malang?

anyway.. again, please bear with the bad photography. hehe

our boat.. hehe..

this creature among the first to greet me underwater..

kim seng's head .. laughing11

lionfish hiding in the corals..

carmen..

surface interval..

we had to wait for about an hour before our next dive on the rocking boat. our 4th dive was at batu malang. very nice rock formation. the rock sort of resembles a sad face. cute

momo74 making himself comfortable.. hehehe...

batu malang

lyla sea sick tongue

fafa @ faridah feeling tired...

dive #4

dive site: Batu Malang

max depth: 13.7m
time in: 12:05 pm
bottom time: 57 minutes
temperature: 29degC

AD @ sapertuh gave a quick pose before going down.

momo74 gave a sexy pose underwater. said he's gonna take his wetsuit off but only took his reg off tongue

sapertuh and momo74

sapertuh ...

fafa and momo

comrade

he sent me off... hehe

dive #5

dive site: Tomok

max depth: 13.7m
time in: 4:28 pm
bottom time: 63 minutes
temperature: 29degC

my last dive for this trip. we went back to kampung paya before starting this dive for a quick lunch.

sapertuh and psha84

vis was bad. first we followed kim seng, cause we couldn't find our dm, zai. then we lost kimseng and momo74, and all of a sudden zai was next to me. so followed him. then we lost sapertuh and fafa. hehe..

anyone lost a car?

lyla and carmen..

i was supposed to go for the nite dive but chose not to when we saw the weather. zai advised me not to go, so i didn't. luckily i didn't go.. heard it was a rough dive.

on our last nite there.. we had our bbq session. heheh.. FOC courtesy of zai.. hehehe...