Malaysia
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Nº1
Date: 2015-07-23 - 16:24
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Max Depth: 9.6m Duration: 51mins
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- Surface interval:0 mins
- Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 29°C
- Dive type : Training, Reef, Boat
- Visibility: Bad Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Weights: 3 kg
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Dive with Fizzy/Fizah (My) from Turtle Bay Divers
Dive buddies:
Ramon
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Dive Profile
- 1. Air
- 12L Steel 200 → 90 bar
- Average depth: 6.4m
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Species Identified
Balistoides viridescens (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) (Titan triggerfish)
Occur in lagoon, seaward reefs and sheltered inner reef slopes . Juveniles often associated with isolated patches of branching coral or rubble of shallow sandy protected areas. Adults occur singly or in pairs on the slo...
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Gymnothorax thyrsoideus (Richardson, 1845) (slender moray)
Fairly common inhabitant of reef flats where it is usually encountered in shallow tidal pools. Often in shipwrecks; usually in pairs or small aggregations, and shares habitat with other morays .
Taeniura lymma (Forsskål, 1775) (Bluespotted ribbontail ray)
Blue-spotted stingrays live alone or in small groups , migrating in large schools into shallow sandy areas on the rising tide in order to feed, and dispersing back into the ocean as the tide falls to shelter in the coral c...
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Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch, 1791) (yellowtail snapper)
Amphiprion ocellaris Cuvier, 1830 (false clown anemonefish)
Abudefduf lorenzi Hensley and Allen, 1977 (Black-tail sergeant)
Inhabits protected coastal areas often around docks or breakwaters.
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Open Water Training; Dive #1
My first ever dive! =D So happy to finally be in the water with sayang <3. We (Andy, Raimy, Ramon) started the session with our instructor Fizah/Fizzy in shallow water (about 2m) where she taught us some basic skills like partial mask flood, regulator clearing (purge & blast), regulator recovery (arm sweep), alternative air source (AAS) use. I was a little nervous and I think that caused me to hyperventilate a little. That in turn affected my descent and Fizah had to put more weight on me. It was really cool to dive for the first time! Best part was being able to breathe underwater; always wanted to do that! =D I was, however, a little too excited I suppose, what with all the new sensations and not being certain if I was doing things right. Was afraid of bumping into the reef etc. Also didn't do that good a job keeping up with Ramon/being a good dive buddy. Oh yes, had a neutral buoyancy control practice before descending too (that's when the weights got added). Back to the dive, my mask was pretty foggy so I missed seeing some (2) blue spotted rays. That, or perhaps I was too distracted by not being able to equalise efficiently (I swallowed instead of blowing through my nose). I did, nonetheless, get to see some pretty cool things like the school of yellow snappers, sergeant majors, western clownfish, baby white eyed moray eel, and a huge titan trigger fish!