over the weekend.. i went to tioman to get my open water diver certification.. foresaking the chance to be a heineken beer boy at the world rugby sevens series played in singapore on the same weekend too! sigh.. but i had thorough fun in tioman nonetheless.. in fact i think thats the understatement of the year haha..
departing on friday evening we took the coach up to mersing and subsequently a boat to tioman island.. the total journey took 6 hours! by the time we were in bed it was 2+am alr!.. waking early the next morning.. we made two dives before lunch and one after.. although the equipment preps on board the rocking boat were tedious and tiring.. the diving itself was exhilirating!.. we reached max depth of 18m and clocked total time of 140 at malang rock, labas and renggis altogether.. plenty of staghorn corals and sea urchins down there but not much big fish.. the trigger fish are pretty scary though haha.. they're crazy little fishes the size of ya palm which charge at bullet speed towards ya.. bloody pain if ya get hit..
docked back at around the evening and had a splendid bbq seafood dinner at the beach bar where all the divers chill out and discuss their days adventures over cold corona beer.. one day of diving is really damn shack balls.. sure knock out once ya hit the sack.. well i did haha..
on day two, we did two dives in the morning before heading back to singapore.. reached back sunday night 10pm.. concluding an excellent dive experience