Monday, June 28, 2010
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
#89 - #91 Hilutungan, Talima, Tambuli around Mactan
A three dive daytrip inc Hilutungan island, Talima and Tambuli off Mactan. Good stuff. A crazy old French fart called Bernard spotted a good sized octapus who soon escaped into a small hole. Bernard just sticks his hand into the black and tries to grap the poor creature, without gloves etc. Eventually he pulls the whole octapus out of its cave...
During the process my regu gets tangles with his ascend flag system so when he takes off, my regu is pulled off from my mouth with quite a force. Interesting!
Dive goes on, lots of "lapu-lapu"s, (groupers), sweetelips occupy the area. A giant triggerfish totally snaps and starts to charge on me some viscious attacks. Kicking it away it keeps on launching until it sees the next diver as an easier victim or a bigger threat to her eggs. Some serious underwater bouncing taking place, its hilarious to see a 40cm creature causing so much havoc in fully grown men.
But yeah, so much talk about triggerfish attacks and never really seen one, so it was an educating experience. Lesson: do not mess with a triggerfish, she will fcuk you up.
Funnily the aggression seemed to have spread among other fish, since after exiting from the triggerfish range, a small black usually harmless reef fish launches and bites my hand. Totally hilarious!
Good dives overall. Stingrays, nudey branches, lionfish, boxer shrimps, sweetlips, groupers, octapus, trumpetmouths, reef fish, all about 27-30meter depth range 45-55min each` using nitrox EANx33, EANx35 / reg air.
Talima has a small shipwreck, Tambuli has an artificial airplane wreck.
Dives with MSDC
During the process my regu gets tangles with his ascend flag system so when he takes off, my regu is pulled off from my mouth with quite a force. Interesting!
Dive goes on, lots of "lapu-lapu"s, (groupers), sweetelips occupy the area. A giant triggerfish totally snaps and starts to charge on me some viscious attacks. Kicking it away it keeps on launching until it sees the next diver as an easier victim or a bigger threat to her eggs. Some serious underwater bouncing taking place, its hilarious to see a 40cm creature causing so much havoc in fully grown men.
But yeah, so much talk about triggerfish attacks and never really seen one, so it was an educating experience. Lesson: do not mess with a triggerfish, she will fcuk you up.
Funnily the aggression seemed to have spread among other fish, since after exiting from the triggerfish range, a small black usually harmless reef fish launches and bites my hand. Totally hilarious!
Good dives overall. Stingrays, nudey branches, lionfish, boxer shrimps, sweetlips, groupers, octapus, trumpetmouths, reef fish, all about 27-30meter depth range 45-55min each` using nitrox EANx33, EANx35 / reg air.
Talima has a small shipwreck, Tambuli has an artificial airplane wreck.
Dives with MSDC
Monday, May 31, 2010
#86 - #88 - Calibao Island, Philippines
Once the grouping point of hammerheads, today still good wall diving and occasional napoleon wrasses. In fact surpisingly good walls, gorgonians and healthy coral. Recommended. And yes spotted also the napoleon wrasse, about 1 meter long.
Divetimes 47 / 55 / 53min
Depths 31 / 27 / 27 meters
Air
With Mactan Scuba Dive Center MSDC which really offers you the best value for money in Mactan and really anywhere. You can negotiate three dive daytrips for 2000 pesos inc equipment.
Divetimes 47 / 55 / 53min
Depths 31 / 27 / 27 meters
Air
With Mactan Scuba Dive Center MSDC which really offers you the best value for money in Mactan and really anywhere. You can negotiate three dive daytrips for 2000 pesos inc equipment.
Monday, May 24, 2010
#85 : Marigondon cave, Mactan
Awesome, a big cave just off Marigondon beach. Entrance off 100 meters from beach at 20-30m, it's huge, you could park a bus inside. Goes apprximately 50 meters inside, but its so big that you can see the entrance at almost all times. Went all the way in, with the great lead from Jens/MSDC. Some people have apparently died diving here, there are a few graves and memorial crosses. Tough luck.
We were quite excited in here, and since already had a deep dive this morning, ended up doing a 25 minute decompression stop at 5 meters. It was worthwhile, encountered two branded sea snakes / kraits, a toadfish (!) usually only in Mexico, a red lionsifh, nudey branches, a spotted crab, pipefishes etc. Nice but totally destroyed aafterwards, thats what the nitrogen does for ya.
MAx depth 36m, divetime 65min inc. 25 min deco
We were quite excited in here, and since already had a deep dive this morning, ended up doing a 25 minute decompression stop at 5 meters. It was worthwhile, encountered two branded sea snakes / kraits, a toadfish (!) usually only in Mexico, a red lionsifh, nudey branches, a spotted crab, pipefishes etc. Nice but totally destroyed aafterwards, thats what the nitrogen does for ya.
MAx depth 36m, divetime 65min inc. 25 min deco
#84 Tresher shark hunting (1hour from Mactan)
Off Mactan again at unspecified location where there had been recent thresher shark encounters. No luck for us though, 27 mins with apretty cool wall though just staring into the blue.
Depth 38m, divetime 27min
Depth 38m, divetime 27min
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