Ksporry
Indonesia
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Nº96
Date: 2015-09-30 - 15:20
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Max Depth: 24.3m Duration: 47mins
Dive Location
- Surface interval:200 mins
- Temp: Surf 24°C Bottom 21°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Photo
- Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Fins: Mares - Quattro +
- Boots: Aqualung -
- Camera: Olympus - EPL5
- BCD: TUSA - X-Wing
- Computer: Suunto - D6i
- Computer: Suunto - Zoop
- Regulator: Aqualung - Legend LUX
- Other: Oceanic - 3-Gauge Console
- Mask: Scubapro - Marin
- Weights: 6 kg
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Dive with Luca Vaime from Underwater Tribe
Underwater Tribe confirmed the dive with parameters: 24.3m / 47mins
Dive buddies:
Jana Tkacova,
Jan Warden,
Peter Siska
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Dive Profile
- 1. Nitrox 32
- 15L Aluminium 190 → 30 bar
- Average depth: 16.5m
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Ok, so this dive was bitterly cold. Way colder than planned for. SUpposedly it was 21degC but it felt colder. My combination of Sharkskin and shorty was not enough to keep me warm.
I probably should have aborted the dive earlier because it could result in hypothermia, not good.
I did not enjoy this dive because of that. This is a shame because the view was really magnificent underwater! loads of critters to see.
I also got slight vertigo a couple of times. When that happened I just stopped and trie dto focus on something steady and control my breathing until it passed. I think this happened twice maybe three times during the dive. I didn't have this before, and I guess it's caused by my dive profile (which did not include steep ascends by the way), and more importantly the cold water, and the hood I was wearing (hoods significantly influence your ability to equalise as I found out during this trip).
Luca told me that if that happens I should try to descend as it is probably air pressure build up inside my ear during ascend. I didn't feel a reverse pressure differential though, but Luca said that it takes more than 100 dives to notice that. I'll keep it in mind for next time.
Because of the cold water and discomfort it gave me, I decided to skip both the night dive and next morning's dive, and take some rest. This was a good idea, because all the equalising and cold water made my ears very tired and sensitive.
Some interesting side stories:
At cannibal rock there is a beach where wild komodo dragons venture. We took a trip to the beach to see them. At that time there was another boat visiting as well. Bent, who had been looking forward to this moment for over 30 years, got real close with his "selfie stick" fitted with his camera and a wireless control unit, so he could do wide angle close ups with the dragons without being eaten alive.
Dragons are poisonous. They have loads of bacteria in their mouth, but also have venom glands in their jaws. There is an antidote available, but that's back in Bali, not available in Komodo.
A bite is deadly if not treated, and even if treated it can take you out for up to 3 months. Luckily visitors have not been reported as bitten, but rangers at the national park are bitten up to 4 times per year (in total, not per ranger).
The next day we visited again. this time there were no other visitors and for some reason the dragons looked a lot more eager as they ran towards the boats and into the water. Dragons can swim and are known to climb into boats. It looked like these were hungry. Dragons are cannibals though, so if push comes to shove they will eat each other. Needless to say they are not pack animals but live solitary. The reason why many can be seen together is because sometimes tourists feed them chicken, so they get used to associating boats to food. This is not a good thing.