So we drove 6.5 hours the other day from PJ to Kuala Besut during Labour’s Day weekend. If it’s not for diving, I probably would think twice to drive that far and for that long! And that’s only half the journey.
We stayed and dived with Watercolours Dive Center. I can’t remember exactly how I ended up with this dive center but most probably it’s because I can’t get 4 nights of accommodation on other resorts on this super peak weekend.
Nevertheless, I would say it’s a great, professional dive center.
The guides are from all over the world; German, French, Swiss, American, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and English and they’re a friendly bunch of people. The one thing I like about them is that after each dive, they helped us to fill our log books with what we saw during the dive. We’ll sit together for like 30 minutes, refer to a few books filled with pictures of fishes, nudibranches and coral reefs and try to identify what we saw. Sometimes I couldn’t even remember what I saw (especially those common fishes you get at every dive sites), but thanks to them, I have all those logged in my log book.
All other information like in/out time, bottom time, surface interval time, max depth, pressure group, visibility and water temperature are shared as well. But since I have a dive computer, I can log them myself.
So, here’s the 9 dives we did for 4 days. No photos as I don’t have a underwater camera with me, yet.
Dive : #1 (Day 1)
Site : De Lagoon
Time In : 17:05
Bottom Time : 50 minutes
Max Depth : 14.8m
Dive : #2 (Day 2)
Site : Batu Nisan Reef
Time In : 11:55
Bottom Time : 60 minutes
Max Depth : 7.2m
Dive : #3 (Day 2)
Site : Lighthouse
Time In : 17:05
Bottom Time : 50 minutes
Max Depth : 11.7m
Dive : #4 (Day 3)
Site : Tanjung Besi
Time In : 10:05
Bottom Time : 35 minutes
Max Depth : 30m
Dive : #5 (Day 3)
Site : Vietnamese Shipwreck
Time In : 13:45
Bottom Time : 35 minutes
Max Depth : 24m
Dive : #6 (Day 3)
Site : De Lagoon
Time In : 19:25
Bottom Time : 55 minutes
Max Depth : 15.6m
Dive : #7 (Day 4)
Site : Batu Layar
Time In : 09:45
Bottom Time : 63 minutes
Max Depth : 16m
Dive : #8 (Day 4)
Site : Tanjung Besi
Time In : 13:38
Bottom Time : 60 minutes
Max Depth : 16.8m
Dive : #9 (Day 4)
Site : Batu Tabir
Time In : 16:40
Bottom Time : 60 minutes
Max Depth : 17.6m
If you have dived in Perhentian before, you would realize that I didn’t dive at Tokong Laut (Temple of the Sea), the best dive site in Perhentian. Some dive centers call it, the superstar. It’s a real shame that we didn’t dive there.
What’s a marine park when there are illegal fishing there?
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