Dive 33: Magician rock, Pulau Tioman, Malaysia

divetime 38min, temp 29C, viz 10m, wts 5kg, body shirt no other suite. 16 m depth.
Azmi Hashim dive center.

Kreisi sukellus kaikenkaikkiaan. Kova virtaus koko ajan. Tarkotuksena loytaa joku merenalanen kivi keskelta avomerta. Loytyikin, mutta koko pohja aika irroteltiin takertunutta kalaverkkoa kovassa virtauksessa. Vapautin muutaman jellyfishin ja meritahden. Muuten ei mitaan erikoista. Ainoa hieno juttu oli sijainti keskella merta ja paikannus maamerkkien avulla ilman teknologiaa.

Dive 32: Tanjung Basi, Pulau Perenthian, Malysia

Depth 16m, time in 11:48, date unknown, 50min divetime, viz 10m, 5kg wts, short suite.

2 x blue spotted ray, yellow boxfish, shady batfish, school of silver batfish, minimum current, estuary grouper, titan triggerfish, brownline snapper, six (6) squids, crown of thorns starfish, tiger cowrie shell, a fed nudie branches, orange spine unicornfish, morish idols, fox face rabbitfish, blue ringed angelfish, surgent majors. Sunlight Divers at Long Beach like all Perenthian dives.

Dive 31: D-lagoon, Pluau Perenthian, Maleysia

Back to Maleysia. Date unknown, dive time 61 min!. temp 30C, viz 8-10m, wts 5kg, suit short, depth 14m.

Giant stingray (!), titan triggerfish, plenty of giant clams, batfish, parrotfish, a purple parrotfish, school of mackarell, bubble coral shrimp, cleaning station with cleaning shrimps, angelfish, squirrelfish, nudie branches, mullets, peacock groupers and clownfish, skunk anonomefish. not bad, the giant stingray made this one.

Dive 30: Underwater World, Singapore

Ehh, swimming in aquarium??!! Well, why not. Date unknown, 30min, temp 29C, good viz, 9 kg wts (more like moonwalking than diving), long suit.

A different one for sure. We were the central point of attention from all the touristy who walked in the underwater glass tunnel expecting to see fish. Saw, held, touched, fed a lot of leopard sharks, eagle and leopard rays, white- and blacktip sharks, giant groupers, sweetlips and a couple of napoleon wrasses. Was actually quite cool. In the other pool we also saw sand tiger sharks and two bullsharks!

Dive 29: Ton Sai Bay, Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. Night Dive.

Date unknown, time in 7:04pm, 50min, temp 28C, only 4 kg weights which caused problems. (5 x 0,8kg instead of 1kg) depth 11m.

Great barracudas, fat sea urchins, cuttlefish, hermit crab, lionfish, parrotfish, catfish (dead and alive), morish idols, oriental sweetlips, small crabs, sealfaced pufferfish, 2 x trumpet or fluitefish, loads of sleeping rabbitfish. Nice stuff and a cool site but having had not enough wts made everything a bit of a struggle, had to swim head down and kick myself down constantly. VISA dive center.

Dive 28 : Frogies boulevard, Sibuan island, Semporna Malaysia

40min, 28C, 10-15m, 5kg, short suite, 21m depth. 21st or 22nd june 2006.

Blue spotted ray, green sea turtle, black frogfish, red frogfish, nudey branches etc.



I quit this one a bit earlier since even the site was nice I had done so much diving recently that I felt a bit sick by now.

Dive 27: Sibuan lift, Sibuan island, Malysia

21st june 2006, 45min, 28C, 10-15m viz, 18m depth.

Eagle ray, black frogfish, mandarinfish (!), clouded moray eel, 2 x crocodilefish, anenome shrimp, tomatohead shrimp, floander, bubble coral shrimp.


Bubble Coral Shrimp


Clownfish


Soft coral at Sibuan


Crab crawling on my shoulder

Again no decent shot from the precious mandarinfish :(

Even the divesite was boring, the stuff I saw here was tremendous.

Dive 26: Tongs Marker off Semporna, Malysia - 1st Night Dive

20th june 2006, 6:45 pm, 50min, 26C, 5kg short and flashlite. 14m depth.

Spider brittle star, decorator crab, popcorn cuttlefish, spot legged coral crab, banded boxershrimp, some other small shrimps & crabs, spider crab. My first nightdive, exciting. I was the first one to ascend and floated 5 min on the surface alone in the dark, good moment.

Dive 25: West Ridge, Sipadan Malayisa

19th june 2006 14:50, 55min, 29C, Viz 40m (!!), depth 23m.

Hawksbill and Green Sea Turtles, school of spadefish, whitetip sharks, groupers, unicornfish (!), angelfish, butterflyfish, trumpetfish, Racoon butterflyfish. Cool.


Seafan was trhe only thing photographed:)

Dive 24, Turtle Patch, Sipadan Malaysia

19th June 06, 12:10, 57min, 28C, viz 15-20m, depth 27m.

Loads of HUGE hawksbill and green sea turtles, many of them all around swimming, relaxing, shaggin on surface. Over ten whitetips on this single dive, pufferfish, schools of batfish, coral grouper, lionfish, regal angelfish. Wall dive as all Sipadan dives, superb.


Green sea turtle at Sipadan

And a werid nudey branch

Dive 23, Barracuda Point, Sipadan, Malyisa

19th June 2006, 9:35 Am, 28C, viz 20m, depth 32m.

Another unforgettable Sipadan dive at Barracuda pt. Wall descending down to 700m provides great stuff to see. Scorpion leaffish, white tip sharks, fat grey reef sharks, black tip shark (!), dog tooth tuna, napoleon wrasse, barracudas, silver longfin spadefish, clownfish, triggerfish, blueface angelfish, sargassum fish (?).


Img by Tino / Scuba Junkies

Dive 22, Frogies Lair, Mabul Island, Maleysia

This dive at Mabul, close to Sipadan. Great muck diving but no big stuff. Amazing stuff though! 50cm broad club cuttlefish, flying gurnard, crocodile fish, baby lionfish, small blue spotted ray, supercool turtles at touching distance, peacock manta shrimp (!), mushroom coral pipefish, dwarf scorpionfish, purple frogfish, glass shrimp, porquepine crab, tubeworm, flutemouths or trumpetfish. Superb stuff here, even though the site itself wasn't beautiful as in Sipadan.

Tubeworm

18th june 06, 14:55, 28C, 15m viz, 17m depth, 5kg wts.

Dive 21: South Point, Sipadan, Maleysia

18th June 2006, Depth 31m, time in 12:00, 31min, temp 28C, viz 30+, 5kg. White tip reefsharks, grey reefsharks, 3 huge napoleon wrasses (!!!), loads of green and hawkbill turtles, massive school of jackfish, whip coral shrimp, scorpion leaffish (?). Very strong current. All Sipadan Dives from Scuba Junkie.

Napoleon wrasses grow up to 2 meters. Pic by Ken Knezick.

Dive 20: Barracuda Point, Sipadan, Maleysia

18th June 2006, time in 9:40, 45min, 28C, superb viz 30m+, wts 5kg short suit. Depth 36m.

Loads of white tip reefsharks, grey reef sharks, a massive dog tooth tuna, school of jackfish, giant travally, harlequine ghost pipefish x 2, triggerfish, a big school of barracuda of course, huge load of normal stuff like morish idols, parrotfish, angelfish, clownfish, groupers, butterflyfish, angelfish. Truly amazing wall dive like everyhting here. Itäs really worth of coming to Sipadan.

Dive 19: Camia II, Boracay, Philippines

Amazing overall experience and my first ever wreck dive. Explored inside and found a dive fully functional computer! Got excited, only 50b left during first air check at 27m. Up with buddy air. Batfish, triggerfish, rainbow runner. Later amusing to show my buddies a divecomputer showing 2h plus divetime. Next day returned to owner who had just lost it a moment before. Cool dive.

Dive 18: Yapak II, Boracay, Philippines

Strong drift, advanced dive that turned out to be too much. Idea was to descend to 30m rapidly, but during descent lost buddy contact and saw nothing. Had to come up. Had a memorable blue moment with blue sea all around but nothing else (no fish, people, seabottom, nothing in any direction I looked.) Have to come back here and complete this one succesfully. Temp 27, viz. 15m, short suit, 5kg weights, 12m.

Dive 17, Fridays Rock, Boracay Philippines

First dive in this new fascinating country. Travelling with Risto and a filipina girl he got to know in Germany, non divers.

15 meters, viz. 15m, 5kg and short suit. Ghost pipefish (!), nudey branch, red bass or some big sweetlips, two titan triggerfish, scorpionfish, lionfish, gold-blue angelfish (bicolor angelfish or regal angelfish). Victor Divers.


A rare ghost pipefish (photo from underwater.com.au)

Dive 16 : Koh Whaen, Northern Krabi, Thailand, Dec 2005

Also with Teemu and Sanna. 11,5 meters, bottom time 60min (!). Lionfish, pufferfish, cushion seastars, some white/yellow sea goddess, transparent shrimps, good one. ****, Rainbow Divers

Dive 15 : Hin Nok, Krabi Province, Thailand. Dec 2005

Lionfish, scorpionfish, morish idols, big blue angelfish, white eye moray eel, cake urchins, wart slugs, lizard fish. 47 min, 11 meters. *** Rainbow Divers

Dive 14 : Hin Nok, Krabi Province, Thailand

With Teemu and Sanna. Lionfish, scorpionfish. 15 meters. Rainbow divers. ** December 2005.

Dive 13 : Moray beach, Mum island, 25th Oct 2005, Vietnam

Good dive, undulater moray eel, big barracuda, lionfish, scorpionfish, morish idol, parrotfish, hawkfish, clownfish, butterflyfish, goatfish, huge group of snappers, big pufferfish, rhino boxfish, granular starfish. abt 52 min max depth 16 m, Coco Dive Center.

Dive 12 : Madonna rock, Mum Island, Nha Trang Vietnam, 25th Oct 2005

First time in Vietnam. Went through an underwater swimtthru/cave, boxer shrimps, cleaner shrimps, two bigbatfish, seafeather, blue seastar, lot of urchins. instructor 474348, depth 20m, abt (absolute bottom time) 42min, viz 6m, long suit. Coco Dive Center.

Dive 11 : Koh Docmay (flower island) Phuket, 6th Oct 2005 (AOW Multilevel)

Great divesite, vertical wall and caves. Tiger tail seahorse (!), shrimps, cleaning shrimps, some slugs. max depth 21m. viz 10-15m, temp 30c, bottom time 31min ****

Unfortunately no picture from the seahorse :(

Anenome seaweed

Dive 10 : Anonemoe reef, Phuket Thailand, 6th Oct 2005 (AOW Photography)

HAd a camera, good pics in the website. Max depth 18,5m, 2xscorpionfish, lionfish, boxer shrimp. ***+


Boxer shrimp

Lionfish

Dive 9 : Shark Point, Phuket Thailand, 6th Oct 2005 (AOW drift dive)

Max depth 20,7m, following current. Lionfish, barracuda, travellys. **

Dive 8 : Racha Yai, Phuket, Staghorn reef th Oct 2005 (AOW Navigation)

Advanced course, navigation dive. Max depth 17m, boxfish, jellyfish, stonefish (!), lionfish. Underwater navigation and distance estimation.

Dive 7 : Racha Yai, Phuket, Thailand, home run reef, 5th Oct 2005 (AOW deep dive)

Advanced open water course in Phuket. Deep dive, 30 meters. Giant pufferfish, giant moray eel, nudey branches, trumpetfish, batfish, instructor 77032, weights (from now on always) 5 kg, vix 15-20, temp 29 celcius. All AOW dives with Scandinavian Divers.

Dive 6 : Halik, Gili Trawangan (Lombok) Indonesia 13th July 2005

Sixth dive, first in Indonesia. Max depth 22 m. Dynamite fising had destroyed some of the corals. Saw a lionfish, scorpionfish, butterflyfishes (of course) giant clams, turtle, lots of blochs bigeyes/soldierfish. www.manta-dive.com.

Dive 5 : Rengis Island, Pulau Tioman, Maleysia 23rd Jan 2005

Saw a batfish, mask filled with water constantly & emptied it a dozen of times and missed a turtle when doing so. Left logbook at home, no sign in the logbook. Max depth 10 m.

Dive 4 : Twin Peaks, Koh Tao th Nov 2004

Last dive of the course, 11 meters. Now certifid to dive anywhere in the world.

Dive 3 : Twin Peaks, Koh Tao Thailand 7th Nov 2004

Third Open water course dive, 10 meters. Free descent, full mask clear, neutral boyancy. Same instructor, suit, weights etc. temp 29, viz 10m.

Dive 2 : Freedom Beach 6th Nov 2004

Open water course dive 2, also 6m. Mask clearing, same instructor. temp 29, viz 5m, weights 5,8kg, suit short 2,5mm

Dive 1 : Freedom Beach Koh Tao Thailand 5th Nov 2004

First dive, 6m. Open Water Course. Freedom beach, Koh Thao, Thailand.
Skills: BCD remove and replace, weighbelt remove/replace, boyancy check, tired-diver tow, regulator exchange, compass swim (surface), cramp release, compass swim (underwater.)

Instructor 469177