Dive log: Sibuan Island, March 2nd

Three dives today with Sipidan Scuba. Weather wasn’t that great, overcast with showers, but there were a few sun breaks. First deep dive ever along the wall was wicked awesome. Definitely want to get into deep diving.

Dive #1: Discovery Wall

Max depth: 29 meters
Bottom time: 43 minutes
Notes: Deep dive for PADI Advanced Open Water; color chart comparison at depth; compared readout from depth gauges; saw 4 lion fish, turtle, 2 nudibranches, shrimp, damsel fish and trigger fish.

Dive #2: East Beach

Max depth: 19.8 meters
Bottom time: 50 minutes
Notes: Fish identification dive for PADI Advanced Open Water; Saw fish from 6 groups: trigger fish, bat fish, goat fish, butterfly fish, damsel fish, and angel fish; didn’t kick the coral (environmental awareness); also saw tiger cowrie shell, varicose wart slugs, and lots of yellowback fusilier.

Dive #3: Frogfish Corner

Max depth: 14.3 meters
Bottom time: 56 minutes
Notes: Peak Performance Buoyancy dive for PADI Advanced Open Water; buoyancy check at the top; slow decent and neutral buoyant circle around a pile of wood; vertical hover, horizontal face-down hover, horizontal face-up hover; efficient, long, slow kicks practice; saw sand, rubbish, massive sea cucumber, and damsel fish.

4 Comments

albert March 2, 2011 Reply

Madly jealous

Michelle March 2, 2011 Reply

varicose wart slugs.

Daniel Bachhuber March 2, 2011 Reply

That’s their name, don’t wear it out.

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