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Learning To Scuba Dive: The Training-Part 1

So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open [...]

The Introduction To Scuba Diving

For this first post of my favorite activity, I am going to describe scuba diving in my very own way. I want to share with everyone about this underwater passion in the easiest and simplest way to understand and to promote enjoyable readings with hope that it can benefit both beginners and experienced [...]

Layang-Layang Island: Wall Dive

Out of 16 great dive sites in Layang-Layang Island, there are 4 great sites for wall diving purposes. Plunging down to more than 1.5 kilometers, they are absolutely amazing sites to dive in. With each of them with their own unique features, diving along each wall brings divers different experience every [...]

Part-Time Again Finally

Just after a few days in Kota Kinabalu, the urge to get some more cash hit me again. Considering the long wait before March next year, 3 months of being jobless is actually not a good option when you are living in the city especially.

By end of this month, the calculation over how much money [...]

The Familiar Surrounding

The night before I boarded a plane back to Kota Kinabalu, we organized a small party for the staffs. One small barbeque and beers heated up with karaoke session until midnight was fun. A little bit of fun got me carried away I forgot I haven’t pack any of my things to bring back home. [...]

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So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open Water Diver Course. But please wait for a minute and keep reading this post to know what exactly you are going to experience during the course. Very important so you have ideas of what the instructors are going to put you through.

I want to share with you in a very simple way about the trainings and the exercises you will meet. Scuba diving training is basically a progressive method which you start from someone who has no idea to someone who can claim yourself to be an expert depending on how you define expert.

First, you will have to go through a long session of academics which can be very exciting as well as boring. For me this is the worst part in the whole course. With 5 modules of 45minutes videos and cheesy presentations, you’d wished it to end quickly. Trust me you’ll have to agree with me later.

Depending on your instructor, you might have to go through 2 exams the same day even or in between your course. Don’t worry the exams are very easy to score and should you fail you are allowed to resit the exams. They are very easy, seriously unless you can’t read.

After the classroom, you will begin your in water training. These are the best part. These are the moment you will find out whether you can dive or not. These are your moment of truth. I am going to share with you some of the skills you have to master in order to become a competent scuba diver.

First skill, getting familiar with your equipments. Overall of 14kg to be carried on your back are the buoyancy jackets, the regulator, the tank and the lead weights. The jacket can be both inflated and deflated, you get the idea? To float and to sink. The regulator is your life line. It allows you to breathe underwater providing you know how to breathe. Haha.  The tank supplies beer to you while diving. Huh? Of course it supplies air so you can breathe. The lead weights are to anchor you at the bottom to join in with the wrecks. Seriously no, the weights are to compensate your naturally buoyant human body so you sink underwater and at the same time not heavy enough to surface up.

With my explanation, hopefully you get a rough idea about your equipments and their purposes. Come back for more explanation on what skills you will learn for underwater purpose.

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So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open Water Diver Course. But please wait for a minute and keep reading this post to know what exactly you are going to experience during the course. Very important so you have ideas of what the instructors are going to put you through.

I want to share with you in a very simple way about the trainings and the exercises you will meet. Scuba diving training is basically a progressive method which you start from someone who has no idea to someone who can claim yourself to be an expert depending on how you define expert.

First, you will have to go through a long session of academics which can be very exciting as well as boring. For me this is the worst part in the whole course. With 5 modules of 45minutes videos and cheesy presentations, you’d wished it to end quickly. Trust me you’ll have to agree with me later.

Depending on your instructor, you might have to go through 2 exams the same day even or in between your course. Don’t worry the exams are very easy to score and should you fail you are allowed to resit the exams. They are very easy, seriously unless you can’t read.

After the classroom, you will begin your in water training. These are the best part. These are the moment you will find out whether you can dive or not. These are your moment of truth. I am going to share with you some of the skills you have to master in order to become a competent scuba diver.

First skill, getting familiar with your equipments. Overall of 14kg to be carried on your back are the buoyancy jackets, the regulator, the tank and the lead weights. The jacket can be both inflated and deflated, you get the idea? To float and to sink. The regulator is your life line. It allows you to breathe underwater providing you know how to breathe. Haha.  The tank supplies beer to you while diving. Huh? Of course it supplies air so you can breathe. The lead weights are to anchor you at the bottom to join in with the wrecks. Seriously no, the weights are to compensate your naturally buoyant human body so you sink underwater and at the same time not heavy enough to surface up.

With my explanation, hopefully you get a rough idea about your equipments and their purposes. Come back for more explanation on what skills you will learn for underwater purpose.

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So you think you have what it takes to scuba dive now. Or you finally managed to convince yourself and your partner or best friends that scuba dive is okay. The next step is to find a dive training center nearby to sign up for the first level of scuba diving, Open [...]

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For this first post of my favorite activity, I am going to describe scuba diving in my very own way. I want to share with everyone about this underwater passion in the easiest and simplest way to understand and to promote enjoyable readings with hope that it can benefit both beginners and experienced divers.

Right, first thing first. The introduction of scuba diving. Scuba basically stands for Self.Confessed.Underwater.Breathing.Addict. This sounds so much better than Self.Contained.Underwater.Breathing.Apparatus which sounds so plain and boring right? Haha but seriously, scuba diving is meant to be fun and exciting.

It is nothing like snorkeling where you just hover at the surface waiting for the Nemo to lunge a surprise attack at you. It is nothing like staring into an aquarium at the poor fishes waiting to be fed. Not exciting at all.

Trust me 60 percent of nowadays scuba divers around the world, professional or non-professional are proud people and will most likely to brag about their feats underwater. 25 percent will most likely to show off their futuristic dive gears. 10 percent of them most likely to become accessories freak and another 5 percent are old school divers who sticked with their antiques equipment.

In diving community, almost everyone had met with each other or heard about one another. It is a massive social networking that goes around the globe and just gets bigger every time. Amazing stories can be heard every time you meet other divers. Experiences either nice or not so nice shared with each other without hesitation.

This is my personal definition for global unity, maybe not so but this is where every person shares the same passion, underwater and the peaceful feeling it brings to every soul who has been there. Amazing right.

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For this first post of my favorite activity, I am going to describe scuba diving in my very own way. I want to share with everyone about this underwater passion in the easiest and simplest way to understand and to promote enjoyable readings with hope that it can benefit both beginners and experienced divers.

Right, first thing first. The introduction of scuba diving. Scuba basically stands for Self.Confessed.Underwater.Breathing.Addict. This sounds so much better than Self.Contained.Underwater.Breathing.Apparatus which sounds so plain and boring right? Haha but seriously, scuba diving is meant to be fun and exciting.

It is nothing like snorkeling where you just hover at the surface waiting for the Nemo to lunge a surprise attack at you. It is nothing like staring into an aquarium at the poor fishes waiting to be fed. Not exciting at all.

Trust me 60 percent of nowadays scuba divers around the world, professional or non-professional are proud people and will most likely to brag about their feats underwater. 25 percent will most likely to show off their futuristic dive gears. 10 percent of them most likely to become accessories freak and another 5 percent are old school divers who sticked with their antiques equipment.

In diving community, almost everyone had met with each other or heard about one another. It is a massive social networking that goes around the globe and just gets bigger every time. Amazing stories can be heard every time you meet other divers. Experiences either nice or not so nice shared with each other without hesitation.

This is my personal definition for global unity, maybe not so but this is where every person shares the same passion, underwater and the peaceful feeling it brings to every soul who has been there. Amazing right.

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Out of 16 great dive sites in Layang-Layang Island, there are 4 great sites for wall diving purposes. Plunging down to more than 1.5 kilometers, they are absolutely amazing sites to dive in. With each of them with their own unique features, diving along each wall brings divers different experience every time. Read along and I will share with you all that you need to know about these submerged world from my very own perspective.

Now, let me introduce to you the walls of Layang-Layang. 4 great walls,

  1. D’ Wall
  2. Crack Reef
  3. Shark’s Cave 1
  4. The Runway

On the next post I will elaborate more details on each sites.

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Out of 16 great dive sites in Layang-Layang Island, there are 4 great sites for wall diving purposes. Plunging down to more than 1.5 kilometers, they are absolutely amazing sites to dive in. With each of them with their own unique features, diving along each wall brings divers different experience every time. Read along and I will share with you all that you need to know about these submerged world from my very own perspective.

Now, let me introduce to you the walls of Layang-Layang. 4 great walls,

  1. D’ Wall
  2. Crack Reef
  3. Shark’s Cave 1
  4. The Runway

On the next post I will elaborate more details on each sites.

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Out of 16 great dive sites in Layang-Layang Island, there are 4 great sites for wall diving purposes. Plunging down to more than 1.5 kilometers, they are absolutely amazing sites to dive in. With each of them with their own unique features, diving along each wall brings divers different experience every [...]

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Just after a few days in Kota Kinabalu, the urge to get some more cash hit me again. Considering the long wait before March next year, 3 months of being jobless is actually not a good option when you are living in the city especially.

By end of this month, the calculation over how much money left for me had me worried. There are going to be Christmas soon, New Year is just few nights away. By the time it’s over, I’d be left with hardly any money to spare for January. Scary huh.

These are the times when I am very thankful for taking the path of a dive professional. Being in this industry for years, I have built a network of friends around. Network of dive operators. Why is it a great thing? Well, there are always going to be a demand for a part-time job for me and other dive professionals around the city. The earnings will not be big but with the constant demand, the per day salary, things are looking good finally.

With pays ranging from RM100 to Rm200 per day, it is good enough if I get at least a week of working and a week of chilling out so I can write more on this blog right.

The downside however I seldom get a chance to choose as these dive operators are always looking for a part-time professionals who are willing to work on demand. Therefore, I need to build up a reputation so they will always look for me first every time they are in need for an additional help. This way, I seldom miss any opportunity to get an extra cash for the week.

It is a great way to live such lifestyle but of course for a short term. But it is the only way for a lazy bummer like me who prefers a short term commitment kind of jobs.

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Just after a few days in Kota Kinabalu, the urge to get some more cash hit me again. Considering the long wait before March next year, 3 months of being jobless is actually not a good option when you are living in the city especially.

By end of this month, the calculation over how much money left for me had me worried. There are going to be Christmas soon, New Year is just few nights away. By the time it’s over, I’d be left with hardly any money to spare for January. Scary huh.

These are the times when I am very thankful for taking the path of a dive professional. Being in this industry for years, I have built a network of friends around. Network of dive operators. Why is it a great thing? Well, there are always going to be a demand for a part-time job for me and other dive professionals around the city. The earnings will not be big but with the constant demand, the per day salary, things are looking good finally.

With pays ranging from RM100 to Rm200 per day, it is good enough if I get at least a week of working and a week of chilling out so I can write more on this blog right.

The downside however I seldom get a chance to choose as these dive operators are always looking for a part-time professionals who are willing to work on demand. Therefore, I need to build up a reputation so they will always look for me first every time they are in need for an additional help. This way, I seldom miss any opportunity to get an extra cash for the week.

It is a great way to live such lifestyle but of course for a short term. But it is the only way for a lazy bummer like me who prefers a short term commitment kind of jobs.

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Just after a few days in Kota Kinabalu, the urge to get some more cash hit me again. Considering the long wait before March next year, 3 months of being jobless is actually not a good option when you are living in the city especially.

By end of this month, the calculation over how much money [...]

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Just after a few days in Kota Kinabalu, the urge to get some more cash hit me again. Considering the long wait before March next year, 3 months of being jobless is actually not a good option when you are living in the city especially.

By end of this month, the calculation over how much money [...]

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The night before I boarded a plane back to Kota Kinabalu, we organized a small party for the staffs. One small barbeque and beers heated up with karaoke session until midnight was fun. A little bit of fun got me carried away I forgot I haven’t pack any of my things to bring back home. Went to bed at 2 a.m was not a briliant idea after all.

Woke up at 6.30a.m and rushing to pack my bags spared me enough time for a cup of hot coffee. Helped me to wake up at least. I managed to get all done in time at last. The only thing to wait was for the plane to arrive and get me out of the island.

Along with the plane was a not so surprised visit from Eugene Foo our resort manager. He did surprised us anyway by the reason he dropped by, to get his wetsuit from the resort. I am saying he travelled all the way to the island while he can just call us to get the wetsuit for him. It was funny as Eugene hasn’t been scuba diving for years since he became the resort manager. I wonder what made him decide to dive again.

Finally on the plane, the 1 hour 15 minutes flight felt quick when you take a nap along the way. When they opened the door, I was greeted with a familiar, gentle and humid breeze of Kota Kinabalu. It is gonna be a warm day for me. The beginning of different stories of familiar places.

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The night before I boarded a plane back to Kota Kinabalu, we organized a small party for the staffs. One small barbeque and beers heated up with karaoke session until midnight was fun. A little bit of fun got me carried away I forgot I haven’t pack any of my things to bring back home. Went to bed at 2 a.m was not a briliant idea after all.

Woke up at 6.30a.m and rushing to pack my bags spared me enough time for a cup of hot coffee. Helped me to wake up at least. I managed to get all done in time at last. The only thing to wait was for the plane to arrive and get me out of the island.

Along with the plane was a not so surprised visit from Eugene Foo our resort manager. He did surprised us anyway by the reason he dropped by, to get his wetsuit from the resort. I am saying he travelled all the way to the island while he can just call us to get the wetsuit for him. It was funny as Eugene hasn’t been scuba diving for years since he became the resort manager. I wonder what made him decide to dive again.

Finally on the plane, the 1 hour 15 minutes flight felt quick when you take a nap along the way. When they opened the door, I was greeted with a familiar, gentle and humid breeze of Kota Kinabalu. It is gonna be a warm day for me. The beginning of different stories of familiar places.

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