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		<title>Free flow of sea water</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The wonderful sunny days of Layang-Layang continues today with soothing breeze and the surrounding calm water.  4 boats keep on slicing the gentle waves towards their desired spot in hoping for the best experience it can offer. The smells of hopes and desperation filled the fresh morning air as every single divers start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kota Kinabalu Is Getting Soaked(Along With The Divers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">After a week of resting from doing any dive or teaching I was finally offered by a friend to teach 4 enthusiast diver to be on Friday. It was a great news since I still have few weeks before going back to Layang-Layang Island again for another 6 months of bliss and excitement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With My Diving Mask?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">A friend of mine bought a pair of running shoes the other day and ended up hating them after 3 days and kept on complaining. I asked him the reason for all his ramblings about his newly bought branded shoes and he said the fittings was bad. The first thing came to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 90yrs old scuba diver</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>waterfreaks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>What is the oldest age for a scuba diver to still be active in his or her underwater passion?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The answer is  90 years old and this was from my true experience.</p>
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Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">The wonderful sunny days of Layang-Layang continues today with soothing breeze and the surrounding calm water.  4 boats keep on slicing the gentle waves towards their desired spot in hoping for the best experience it can offer. The smells of hopes and desperation filled the fresh morning air as every single divers start to gather at the dive center checking on their next underwater adventure. The divemasters and all the captains are enjoying their morning coffee as the busy hour crawls in. Definitely a great day to start.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">1 more dive for me before I am done being wet and salty. On the board, written was my name and time of departure right inside the Wrasse Strip column. My divers seemed happy to see that. It is good to start a day by seeing others smile at you.  A diver forgot his boots and we had to turn back at halfway made some of the guest disgruntled for the delay caused. So much excitement in them I guessed. Others just smiled and kept on chatting with each other made the tension a bit more less.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After less than 15 minutes through calm and clear water, we reached the site. In another 5 minutes, everyone was already in the water impatiently waiting for clearance to sink themselves into the deep blue water. The current was nice enough today. Not so fast and not too slow either. The blue water was decorated with the piercing sunlight from atop and empty background filled with fishes dancing around turned the scenery into perfect picture of the mother herself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Out in the blue for a while unfortunately did not bring us any of the desired hammers. It was however compensated with the a shoal of surgeon fish circling and tailing each other around us. Back to the reef after 10 minutes we were greeted by a few white tip reef sharks lazily lying on the sea bed while a few more seemed to have entered trance state while being groomed by the cleaner wrasses. A couple of fierce looking dogtooth tuna started to circling around for a while to show off their great built before swimming off to the other direction.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">50 minutes felt too short for some of the divers they decided to do longer safety stop as an excuse to dive longer. It was worth and effort as a small school of chevron barracuda passes by and swirled around for a bit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The rest of the day was great. The current had kept on going faster each time the divers entered the water. Most of the divemasters claimed to have covered 2 sites in a single dive. Sounded great to me. No matter how I hate to admit that not being underwater for half a day made me itching all over to dive again. Another day tomorrow then I can start again with a new group. Cannot wait for the day to pass.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">1 more dive for me before I am done being wet and salty. On the board, written was my name and time of departure right inside the Wrasse Strip column. My divers seemed happy to see that. It is good to start a day by seeing others smile at you.  A diver forgot his boots and we had to turn back at halfway made some of the guest disgruntled for the delay caused. So much excitement in them I guessed. Others just smiled and kept on chatting with each other made the tension a bit more less.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After less than 15 minutes through calm and clear water, we reached the site. In another 5 minutes, everyone was already in the water impatiently waiting for clearance to sink themselves into the deep blue water. The current was nice enough today. Not so fast and not too slow either. The blue water was decorated with the piercing sunlight from atop and empty background filled with fishes dancing around turned the scenery into perfect picture of the mother herself.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Out in the blue for a while unfortunately did not bring us any of the desired hammers. It was however compensated with the a shoal of surgeon fish circling and tailing each other around us. Back to the reef after 10 minutes we were greeted by a few white tip reef sharks lazily lying on the sea bed while a few more seemed to have entered trance state while being groomed by the cleaner wrasses. A couple of fierce looking dogtooth tuna started to circling around for a while to show off their great built before swimming off to the other direction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">50 minutes felt too short for some of the divers they decided to do longer safety stop as an excuse to dive longer. It was worth and effort as a small school of chevron barracuda passes by and swirled around for a bit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The rest of the day was great. The current had kept on going faster each time the divers entered the water. Most of the divemasters claimed to have covered 2 sites in a single dive. Sounded great to me. No matter how I hate to admit that not being underwater for half a day made me itching all over to dive again. Another day tomorrow then I can start again with a new group. Cannot wait for the day to pass.</p>
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Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">After a week of resting from doing any dive or teaching I was finally offered by a friend to teach 4 enthusiast diver to be on Friday. It was a great news since I still have few weeks before going back to Layang-Layang Island again for another 6 months of bliss and excitement. The only down turn for this course was the weather. The last open water course I conducted was great. The weather was on our side, the visibility was amazing for Kota Kinabalu water (10 to 15m).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today however, has been raining for almost 3 days now. Even though it was not as bad as 2 days ago, the drizzles just kept on showering even now as I am writing. The sea was a bit choppy in the morning with a lot of annoying  surge and murky water. Amazingly, the rain and the swell did not shut their excitement which had provided great help to me and my assistant. Even the 27 centigrade of water and the less than 2 meter visibility failed to stop them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, the water got much calmer right after lunch when we were set to plunge into another session. even though the rain still went on, visibility improved to 5 meters at least and the session went well in the end. They all managed to complete and had gotten more than halfway to open water diver certification. Well done guys. Another day tomorrow and you all will be proud to claim yourself as scuba divers and join the colourful diving community. Maybe one day I will get to dive with them again somewhere in the globe where there are infinite possibilities.</p>

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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">After a week of resting from doing any dive or teaching I was finally offered by a friend to teach 4 enthusiast diver to be on Friday. It was a great news since I still have few weeks before going back to Layang-Layang Island again for another 6 months of bliss and excitement. The only down turn for this course was the weather. The last open water course I conducted was great. The weather was on our side, the visibility was amazing for Kota Kinabalu water (10 to 15m).</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today however, has been raining for almost 3 days now. Even though it was not as bad as 2 days ago, the drizzles just kept on showering even now as I am writing. The sea was a bit choppy in the morning with a lot of annoying  surge and murky water. Amazingly, the rain and the swell did not shut their excitement which had provided great help to me and my assistant. Even the 27 centigrade of water and the less than 2 meter visibility failed to stop them.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, the water got much calmer right after lunch when we were set to plunge into another session. even though the rain still went on, visibility improved to 5 meters at least and the session went well in the end. They all managed to complete and had gotten more than halfway to open water diver certification. Well done guys. Another day tomorrow and you all will be proud to claim yourself as scuba divers and join the colourful diving community. Maybe one day I will get to dive with them again somewhere in the globe where there are infinite possibilities.</p>

Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">A friend of mine bought a pair of running shoes the other day and ended up hating them after 3 days and kept on complaining. I asked him the reason for all his ramblings about his newly bought branded shoes and he said the fittings was bad. The first thing came to my mind was the big question &#8220;Did he even tried the shoes first?&#8221; And yes, for being such a brand conscious, he spent his money on a good brand that did not give him what he expected. So what had he learned from the experience? Good brand name does not necessarily means great product for you. What I am trying to say here is you have to try some products before you can decide whether to invest in them or not as the results may be different for different individual.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The same thing applies when you decide that you are going to buy a pair of diving mask for your personal use. There are of course many great brand names out there for you to choose. However, the question is which one fits you the best. In scuba diving activity, other than having a great diving skill, you also need to have equipment personally good for you. Mask play an important role. Bad fitting will only allow water to keep sipping into your mask making uncomfortable dive.It does not matter if you own a cheap pair of mask if it works perfect for you. You saved more and you gain more benefit from it. This is one piece of equipment that needed to be tested first before buying, just like a wetsuit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When you learn scuba diving, your instructor or the long video presentation will give you important tips on how to buy a right fitting mask. Of course I will share with you here as well. It is by far the easiest method to determine your personal fitting. Put the mask on your face, inhale through your nose and hold it for few seconds, look down, if the mask doesn&#8217;t fall off you just found a right fittings for you. One more factor to consider is to make sure the lenses are tempered glass. Why, in a very unlikely event, should the lenses break it will only crack all over instead of shattering into your face. Next, check the nose pocket, is it comfy? Does it cover your nose well or is it too small for your nose? Keep testing until you get the right one for you. Remember, for you personally.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It does not really matter if the mask have double or single lens. At this point, you are already sure that you have found a correct fitting mask. So what&#8217;s left for you? Choose your colour if you should, get an extra strap or get a prescribed lens if you have to. Want a more sophisticated mask? Try the full face mask if available but I would not recommend those to newbies as it needs more experience and of course they cost more than a normal pair.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That is all for now. Hopefully this article can help you and others too. I did the same thing as I wrote and I had a blast with them until now. Enjoy your dive activity and yes, dive safely, that is the only way to enjoy it. If you want to do more things underwater, go upgrade your level or just keep collecting experience by diving more.</p>

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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">A friend of mine bought a pair of running shoes the other day and ended up hating them after 3 days and kept on complaining. I asked him the reason for all his ramblings about his newly bought branded shoes and he said the fittings was bad. The first thing came to my mind was the big question &#8220;Did he even tried the shoes first?&#8221; And yes, for being such a brand conscious, he spent his money on a good brand that did not give him what he expected. So what had he learned from the experience? Good brand name does not necessarily means great product for you. What I am trying to say here is you have to try some products before you can decide whether to invest in them or not as the results may be different for different individual.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The same thing applies when you decide that you are going to buy a pair of diving mask for your personal use. There are of course many great brand names out there for you to choose. However, the question is which one fits you the best. In scuba diving activity, other than having a great diving skill, you also need to have equipment personally good for you. Mask play an important role. Bad fitting will only allow water to keep sipping into your mask making uncomfortable dive.It does not matter if you own a cheap pair of mask if it works perfect for you. You saved more and you gain more benefit from it. This is one piece of equipment that needed to be tested first before buying, just like a wetsuit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">When you learn scuba diving, your instructor or the long video presentation will give you important tips on how to buy a right fitting mask. Of course I will share with you here as well. It is by far the easiest method to determine your personal fitting. Put the mask on your face, inhale through your nose and hold it for few seconds, look down, if the mask doesn&#8217;t fall off you just found a right fittings for you. One more factor to consider is to make sure the lenses are tempered glass. Why, in a very unlikely event, should the lenses break it will only crack all over instead of shattering into your face. Next, check the nose pocket, is it comfy? Does it cover your nose well or is it too small for your nose? Keep testing until you get the right one for you. Remember, for you personally.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It does not really matter if the mask have double or single lens. At this point, you are already sure that you have found a correct fitting mask. So what&#8217;s left for you? Choose your colour if you should, get an extra strap or get a prescribed lens if you have to. Want a more sophisticated mask? Try the full face mask if available but I would not recommend those to newbies as it needs more experience and of course they cost more than a normal pair.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">That is all for now. Hopefully this article can help you and others too. I did the same thing as I wrote and I had a blast with them until now. Enjoy your dive activity and yes, dive safely, that is the only way to enjoy it. If you want to do more things underwater, go upgrade your level or just keep collecting experience by diving more.</p>

Start uga_filter: <p>What is the oldest age for a scuba diver to still be active in his or her underwater passion?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The answer is  90 years old and this was from my true experience.</p>
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<p>I know some won&#8217;t believe this until they see it for themselves. I couldn&#8217;t at first as well. And to spend 4 days of diving with a group of elderly(70 to 90yrs old) was not in my expectation at all.</p>
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<p>It was somewhere around the month of April, the month which the resort always gets the highest occupancy in its 6 months operation(March to August). We are talking about 100 to 120 guests at the same day, which had made me to come up with this joke, &#8217;someday scientists are going to blame scuba divers for the global rising of the  sea level&#8217;. This is the month of high expectation, anticipation and excitement. It is also the month of desperation and frustration. 120 divers with the same passion. 120 divers with the same expectation. To see if they have all the luck they need to encounter one of the most amazing shark performing their ancient rituals. The <strong><a class="zem_slink" title="Hammerhead shark" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark">hammerhead sharks</a></strong> parade, the aggregation of 30 to 40 mighty sharks gliding gracefully in the blue water. If any of the divers are lucky, as if seeing the school is not enough, one of these gentle giant might even come close by to inspect, close enough for you to see the shark&#8217;s details. On a different dive however, some might missed it by a mere second before they disappear into the depth. That dive will be a disappointing one so they said. To be exact, 70% of these divers admitted of being a &#8217;single minded&#8217; diver, their dive trip has only one goal, only the hammerhead that matters. Seeing other amazing life such as the majestic <a class="zem_slink" title="Manta ray" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_ray">giant manta</a> swimming close to divers for as long as 30minutes or a massive school of bigeye trevally crossing path with another 30 pygmy devil rays never seems to please them enough. I have never grew tired of such an amazing scene. Would you?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>Back to my story, I was assigned to guide a group of Japanese for 4 days. There were 10 of them altogether. It was not a surprised of course as I was already informed about it few days in advanced. However, what surprised the day they arrived was to see 2 young Japanese guys with 8 elderly people slowly walking to the reception. When I get their registration form, things just gotten better. Their average age was 80years old. 1 of them(Ikuko) just celebrated her 90th birthday few weeks before, and she has only been diving for a year. In fact, most of were. I was so sure I&#8217;m going to need an extra guide until I saw the 2 guys&#8217; forms. They were actually the dive instructors of the group and also the organizer of their trip. What a big relieved. They assured me they are going to assist me in any way which was very cool.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>It was a very interesting week for me. The dives were fantastic. We saw one hammerhead shark right above us. We had a manta ray swimming along with us for 15 minutes. They were happy. And they were as active as a youth can be. Amazing people.It was tiresome as well. We always had to figure out the best way for them to enter the water as well as to exit which was the most challenging every time. The Japanese ways of giving services has always amazed me and these 2 instructors had displayed the same manners towards their group members. I was very lucky to have them helping me out. I have to give credit to my boat captain&#8217;s professional performance during those times.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>3 dives a day, water was sometimes quite choppy, some of my elderly divers had finally decided it is too much for them. 3 of them had chose to do only 1 or 2 dives a day. Ikuko amazingly did 3 dives a day without fail. How amazing that was for a 90 years old lady. The fact that she was also the &#8216;cheer captain&#8217; on the boat made things better for everyone. Nothing stops her from diving. Not the swell which had given seasick to most of them nor the merciless infamous current of Layang-Layang water. Some other divers were so curious they came up to me and asked me about my dives with them. There was another Japanese diver Mr.Honda who was our regular guest who said to me that he once thought he was the oldest diver on the resort until my group arrived. By the way Mr.Honda was 67years old at that time. And he comes every year to see the sharks, so we&#8217;ll be expecting him again next year.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So do you think you can still do the things you like to do as you get older? I wish I can still dive at 60. Or maybe still do some guiding here in Layang-Layang.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The answer is  90 years old and this was from my true experience.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>I know some won&#8217;t believe this until they see it for themselves. I couldn&#8217;t at first as well. And to spend 4 days of diving with a group of elderly(70 to 90yrs old) was not in my expectation at all.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>It was somewhere around the month of April, the month which the resort always gets the highest occupancy in its 6 months operation(March to August). We are talking about 100 to 120 guests at the same day, which had made me to come up with this joke, &#8217;someday scientists are going to blame scuba divers for the global rising of the  sea level&#8217;. This is the month of high expectation, anticipation and excitement. It is also the month of desperation and frustration. 120 divers with the same passion. 120 divers with the same expectation. To see if they have all the luck they need to encounter one of the most amazing shark performing their ancient rituals. The <strong><a class="zem_slink" title="Hammerhead shark" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark">hammerhead sharks</a></strong> parade, the aggregation of 30 to 40 mighty sharks gliding gracefully in the blue water. If any of the divers are lucky, as if seeing the school is not enough, one of these gentle giant might even come close by to inspect, close enough for you to see the shark&#8217;s details. On a different dive however, some might missed it by a mere second before they disappear into the depth. That dive will be a disappointing one so they said. To be exact, 70% of these divers admitted of being a &#8217;single minded&#8217; diver, their dive trip has only one goal, only the hammerhead that matters. Seeing other amazing life such as the majestic <a class="zem_slink" title="Manta ray" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manta_ray">giant manta</a> swimming close to divers for as long as 30minutes or a massive school of bigeye trevally crossing path with another 30 pygmy devil rays never seems to please them enough. I have never grew tired of such an amazing scene. Would you?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>Back to my story, I was assigned to guide a group of Japanese for 4 days. There were 10 of them altogether. It was not a surprised of course as I was already informed about it few days in advanced. However, what surprised the day they arrived was to see 2 young Japanese guys with 8 elderly people slowly walking to the reception. When I get their registration form, things just gotten better. Their average age was 80years old. 1 of them(Ikuko) just celebrated her 90th birthday few weeks before, and she has only been diving for a year. In fact, most of were. I was so sure I&#8217;m going to need an extra guide until I saw the 2 guys&#8217; forms. They were actually the dive instructors of the group and also the organizer of their trip. What a big relieved. They assured me they are going to assist me in any way which was very cool.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>It was a very interesting week for me. The dives were fantastic. We saw one hammerhead shark right above us. We had a manta ray swimming along with us for 15 minutes. They were happy. And they were as active as a youth can be. Amazing people.It was tiresome as well. We always had to figure out the best way for them to enter the water as well as to exit which was the most challenging every time. The Japanese ways of giving services has always amazed me and these 2 instructors had displayed the same manners towards their group members. I was very lucky to have them helping me out. I have to give credit to my boat captain&#8217;s professional performance during those times.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>3 dives a day, water was sometimes quite choppy, some of my elderly divers had finally decided it is too much for them. 3 of them had chose to do only 1 or 2 dives a day. Ikuko amazingly did 3 dives a day without fail. How amazing that was for a 90 years old lady. The fact that she was also the &#8216;cheer captain&#8217; on the boat made things better for everyone. Nothing stops her from diving. Not the swell which had given seasick to most of them nor the merciless infamous current of Layang-Layang water. Some other divers were so curious they came up to me and asked me about my dives with them. There was another Japanese diver Mr.Honda who was our regular guest who said to me that he once thought he was the oldest diver on the resort until my group arrived. By the way Mr.Honda was 67years old at that time. And he comes every year to see the sharks, so we&#8217;ll be expecting him again next year.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So do you think you can still do the things you like to do as you get older? I wish I can still dive at 60. Or maybe still do some guiding here in Layang-Layang.</p>
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