Ooh. Yea try to get more people to go diving with you! It will definitely be more fun. Anyway you will get to know more and more people thru diving. Knowing more people also can help you increase your knowledge about diving and help you when you encounter problems. Sometimes you can get discounts as well like when you charter a boat or quad sharing rooms and also transportation like driving to Mersing.

If you find your mouth too dry when breathing thru the regulator, what I do is I put my tongue in front to close the mouth piece. This will actually help in using less air as well. I find too much air very dry for my mouth and throat.

Take it easy. Do not push yourself too much. Have fun!

Join malaysianunderwater.com. U can find buddy and join next dive trip.

Thanks for the tips. More buddy more fun, still new and i have few school friends into scuba dive.

Ok thanks for the link. Will do.

mmm.. I try to register but.. The last question which is:-

What does the acronym S.C.U.B.A. stand for?:

I copy and paste from google and i am sure it the correct answer.. But still fail to register.


This post has been edited by zaff1984: Sep 16 2011, 08:42 PM

self-contained underwater breathing apparatus

Ok. Many thanks and i completed the registration.

FYI, i just come back from Tioman, 2 dive and got new friends and potential dive buddy. I dive at Tumuk and Pirate Reef.

Tumuk the reef and the marine life are average, there alot of huge boulders its quite nice and my dive master show us a 'special wreak' - it a car body in a middle of the sea. I lol-ed underwater.

Pirate Reef is great too.. A lot of hard reef and fishes - we saw a group of juvnile barracuda and alot group of small fishes. Its hard to find penyu, other group saw ot but we not find it.

I realized that i managed control my panic this time. Just need to improve my bouyancy and swim in a current.

This post has been edited by zaff1984: Sep 18 2011, 02:58 PM

Haha I'm back to ask a question without attending any dive course yet.. Basically I went to snorkel in Lang Tengah Last weekend. When I try to dive down the sea bottom, the seawater would go in my eyes (maybe the water sip through my face when I try to hold the breath). I ask the divers in the Island and they say you will use the same kind of mask when you dive, so I would like to ask is it normal that there's leakage in your mask? It's very irritating and difficult to adjust your mask even on the ocean surface..

you will learn all the techniques needed to clear mask underwater! no worries!

hehe, mask clearing the skill that I most scared. lol. even I pass the OWC but I dont have a guts to doing it underwater. I must master this skill one day...

Make sure your fringe don't get into the top part of your mask. And take OWC. blackwhitechips got contact.

I got a package to do OWC in Lumut 4D3N for 1.3k too.. but I don't really recall any nice island around there..

for lumut, you mostly will do pulau jarak or pulau sembilan...in greenish water. might as well pay and go Tioman...almost same price!

haha tioman have to wait next year edi.. kinda late, monsoon coming soon

Lumut got dive operators? How much the dives there cost? What to see? I'm from Lumut but never knew there got.

Dive at Pulau Semilan won't kena hook by lures?

hey guys!

check this offer by berjaya tioman... http://www.berjayahotel.com/flyer/tioman_ticd_oct2011.htm

Seems cheap. Anyone can verify this is cheap?

oct off season sure will be cheaper

and you only get 3 boat dives. you have to pay for ferry to Tioman as well. it's not bad, but certainly not ppl looking to pure dive

Not sure if it's cheap as like blackwhitechipsKL pointed out, you'll have to pay for transportation to Tioman.

Bf went there last month and he said that the vis isn't exactly good, if you're planning to go, it would be best if you ask around for reviews from those who've just dived there.


QUESTION: Has anyone dived at Miri? Any recommended dive sites? What are the best times to dive there/time to AVOID diving there? Price range?

Sorry to sound like an annoying noob, searched the forum but couldn't find any related post. Thank you all so much!!

This post has been edited by peppermilk: Sep 21 2011, 11:01 PM

Went to Tioman a few days before Raya. Viz was really bad. Not a good time to go. Maybe go mid season. Air Asia 0 Price anyone booked?

I'm trying to book to Banda Aceh but damn hard.

Try booking around 4 - 5 AM, got through their lines pretty fast that time. Got my tickets to Yangon and Miri! Good luck to you!

Btw, er...... has anyone dived with braces on? Any advise on diving with braces? I might be getting my teeth fixed in this coming few months so I need a bit of advice. Sorry to ask so many annoying noob question. >__< Thank you all very much!!!

Try to use fleapy.com to get through easily. It also will show the available price before it directed to AA website.

Have done 10 dive at Redang last week. Luckily got to see bongo shrimp or well known as tiger shrimp at Cina Terjun dive site. Its a rare critters in the world.