my dive course is finally confirmed at the end of August! can't wait

and while on the topic of contacts.. i have phobia of contacts and somehow fail very badly and wearing them looks like i have to buck up

Floating =/= water treading =/= swimming. at least not directly similar

Finally did my SDI OW at Labuan.

Day 1: 2-3 hours of briefing on various important diving topics and equipment assembly.

Day 2 confined training straight away do at the sea which was just right at the door step. Shore entry all the way, but currents quite strong. Struggled to even stand straight properly

Day 3 continued training at Pulau Papan, about 10 minutes boat ride away from Labuan. Ended the training with an open water dive. Not much coral reef around here so didn't get to see much. Visibility was good initially but became poor as more and more sand was being kicked around. Deepest dive was 14.4 metres.

Instructor gave us one week to complete the theory questions

Hopefully I will pass successfully.

Haha yes I'm a bit skeptical too. Have to dive more for more practice.

bila mau datang Labuan

technically you can dive anywhere as long as there is someone very experienced with the dive sites guiding you otherwise it will be close to suicidal diving blindly.

Green water usually indicates bad visibility?

Labuan is always available

Labuan Labuan

can we replace the battery ourselves?

what happens when the dive comp battery dies? have to send back factory to fix? :omg:

anybody dived in miri waters before? is it decent ?

thanks a lot. dropping by miri few days. will take one day to dive then. my first dive after gettinng licence. stress

Just did my dive in Miri last week. Haven't been diving since I got my licence so I did a refresher course one day before for RM150.

My first dive went quite wrong. After diving for about 5 metres (used the mooring line to help me descent, not sure what happened but i suddenly just got pulled back up right to the surface despite my efforts kicking hard to descent but nothing worked lol. Not sure if it was the current or me having not enough weights (already had 4 on, previous dive also used 4).

Luckily the boat was nearby and I had no choice but to get back on. While I almost accepted the fact I have to wait for 1 hour before the rest of the crew came back, my DM popped back up and brought me down again. This time adding two more weights to make sure I will definitely sink. Which I did.

However for my subsequent dives, my air ran out much quicker compared to the rest. I was thinking probably it's due to my noob skills but now thinking back, is it because I had too much weight on which wasted a lot of energy? 6 weights is really crazy lol.

unlikely cause i had to swim underwater for a bit before reaching the line. around 1-2 metres no issues. it was after i finally can see the bottom. let go of the line. then started floating back up d rofl.

true. struggled a bit to keep my buoyancy neutral and hit 70 reaallly fast. llike always 10-15 minutes earlier before everybody.

You have a point. Will keep this in mind for my next dive

maybe also

Ohhhh i thought all weights are standard oh man i didn't remember how heavy exactly those weights were.

Wet suit more tendency to float? Ya i didn't wear wet suit in my previous dive

More air in the body? haha

Ok. Have to accept that i'm fatter

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Side note has anybody dived at Pulau Kapas? I have like 1.5 free days at KT and it seems like a quite nearby to the mainland and more practical vs trying to go to Redang. Rates are quite cheap too

sure will share haha. hopefully the DMs will take photo and share. My last dive in Miri the DMs were not that accomodating didn't get a single photo of myself. also cause i didnt ask for a photo hahaha

I probably gonna stay at the dorm la. safer

This post has been edited by zstan: Jun 13 2018, 09:21 PM

https://www.lazada.com.my/products/suunto-z...ScrRXm&search=1

Hi all. Is this a good deal and reliable seller? I had thought about it for awhile to buy a dive comp, but don't feel like investing too much, since i'm not sure how frequent i will dive

Nope from East Malaysia. Any dive centres which does online sales? 🙁