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17 August 2014

Thursday 7 August Memorable diving at Tun Sakaran

our new dive tender


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kit and guns loaded onboard
Wow! A fantastic dive day memorable for our dive boat and for the diving. Our Maritim boys were so wonderful loading our kit aboard and racing out to the dive site at 30kts in their twin 350HP speed boat, air conditioned cabin, guns, tea and biscuits. Dive guide Yuri showed Captain Faizuh where to drop us. We descended to 20m and followed the slope along seeing more varieties of anemones than I've ever seen, nudibranchs, soft corals, hard corals, fish we've never seen before and good visibility. When we surfaced it was close to a resort dive boat and the Maritim boat was still a way off (they lost our bubble tracks). They soon spotted us and came over. The resort boat must have thought we were super VIPS to have these guys as our dive boat! What a wonderful experience. What a wonderful memory.
Ian and Yuri, our guide
And this wasn't all. In the afternoon we went for a second dive with Yuri on the reef wall close to the anchorage which was within range of the dinghy. Yuri knew there was a 20cm black frog fish at this site but could we find him? No. Giant green turtles, more anemones and clown fish, healthy sponges and coral almost made up for it. It feels so good to be diving in clear water again. It feels good to be diving.

Following our afternoon dive we invited Yuri and Ian (researcher) aboard Jackster for tea and biscuits to thank them for their time and to show them what a yacht looks like from the inside.

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