back from indonesia..
diving was great in manado.. however, ALL dive sites in manado are vertical wall diving, which i really quite dislike.. let me tell you why..i love dives which i can see the seabed, because no matter whether the current drifts you, or you get disorientated, you can only go as deep as where the seabed is.. however, in wall dives, though you are expected to go along the allowed depth, sometimes you can go deeper than usual, and this can be quite bad.. in manado, once i was observing some puffer fishes under a rock, when suddenly there's this slight passing current pushing me away from the place.. i never thought of it seriously until i decided to look for my divemaster a minute later.. i looked up and got a shock of my life! he was as small as a large fish.. i checked my depth gauge and boy i was at nearly 50m! arghh.. i immediately did a slow ascent and stayed at 8-10m throughout the rest of the dive for decompression purposes.. haiz.. i didn't enjoy the rest of my that particular dive!
but well there are the advantages of manado though.. when you glance at the deep blue.. you occassionally see schools of tunas, trevallies or snappers swimming.. and the nudibranches i saw were nothing like i've even seen before!
all in short, the marine life was like.. WOW!! (p.s. damn it i got stung by fire corals when i tried to hold on to some corals when there was a freaking strong current)
next stop: egypt red sea or maldives.. yee hah!!
posted by Linus Chia @ 4:17 PM
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