dive 06

pulau lang

surprisingly, it didn't rain and the skies began to lighten up although the waves were choppier than before.

we had to gear up and walked to the jetty in our full gear... pant!

i started the reciprocal navigation in the navigator role while doris did the timing. headed out at 30 degrees for 2 minutes. kay yaw had to adjust the bearings for me.

managed to set out and return to the starting point without any problems although sometimes i felt that the compass needle doesn’t seem to be floating freely.

doris also completed the navigation successfully but not before almost leading me to the surface! gosh!

i was too engrossed timing and following her lead that i wasn’t conscious that we were ascending until i heard kay yaw hitting his tank to catch kl & ky’s attention.

only then did i realise we were already very close to the surface. i promptly signaled to doris to descend quickly and frantically descend as fast as i could before kay yaw realise where we were. :P hehe…

we also revised our scuba unit removal and replacement exercise while kl & ky did another round of navigation thanks to somebody’s speed fining. haha…

then while kl & ky were practicing their scuba unit r & r, doris swam around in a perfectly horizontal position displaying her fine control of neutral buoyancy. what a show-off, right? :P

kay yaw showed us a cluster of brown shark egg sacs. the egg sacs felt like some plastic material that was quite resistant to my attempt to tear it apart.

we also completed our final drill, the controlled emergency swimming ascent [cesa], not a very difficult drill since we just have to keep breathing out during ascent simulating an out-of-air situation. only need to be mindful that we do not ascend too quickly.

originally, we were supposed to do it after our rescue drill at the earlier dive but kay yaw called it off since we were not in good shape by the end of the drill.

at the end of it all, i just want to get out of the water away from the waves!