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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The weather on the island was great. Although a bit dry and warm the breeze helps to cool you down just nice. For the past few days I have been gazing at the open sea of Layang-Layang hoping to catch a glimpse of dolphin&#8217;s pod. Even though still none for the moment I [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Layang-Layang island is an atoll located 330km from Kota Kinabalu. It is known to be one of the spot for a chance of close encounter with the infamous hammerhead sharks. A part of the 600 islands, reefs and shoals of Spratly&#8217;s, it is surrounded by clear water occupied by rich diversity of marine [...]]]></description>
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Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">For the past week, I have been busy diving with the second group of divers arrived on the 5th of March. One of them were our very own &#8216;loyal&#8217; guest who had been telling us that he is not coming back to Layang-Layang this year and happened to showed up with 23 days of staying with the resort. Ironically, he has been telling others how great his dives were while being here last year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Along the group were 2 very experience divers whom one of them happened to be a professional photographer hired by the boss to get promo images for the American market. A very nice guy who has a big personality and very clear over his objectives.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The first day was not very convincing for them as I brought them down to Snappers Ledge which mainly is an easy wall dive with not so much of a pelagic to be seen. They however understood that it was only a checkout dive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The highlight however came to happen on the 3rd day when we finally managed to get a look at the infamous hammerhead shark. Having encountered such shark has always been an exciting and great experience for me although I may have seen them many times throughout my diving in Layang-layang water.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The nest few days were decorated with some sighting of devil rays, eagle rays, even manta and other reef sharks. Those sighting sure had made some smiles with satisfaction even though some actually craved for more excitement and much more grand sighting of pelagic. You can&#8217;t of course satisfy everyone right.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, the great news arrived today with the sighting of hammerhead sharks schooling at one of my favorite site, Wrasse Strip. I had a back to back sighting of hammerhead sharks schooling at this particular site for the past 2 years. Although my group was not the one who saw them : ( it was still a great news for all of us here in Layang_Layang especially.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fingers all crossed for tomorrow as I am going to have another try with the sharks before I hand over this group to other Divemaster as I am in need for out gassing for a day at least. Once a nitro junky, forever one.</p>
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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">For the past week, I have been busy diving with the second group of divers arrived on the 5th of March. One of them were our very own &#8216;loyal&#8217; guest who had been telling us that he is not coming back to Layang-Layang this year and happened to showed up with 23 days of staying with the resort. Ironically, he has been telling others how great his dives were while being here last year.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Along the group were 2 very experience divers whom one of them happened to be a professional photographer hired by the boss to get promo images for the American market. A very nice guy who has a big personality and very clear over his objectives.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The first day was not very convincing for them as I brought them down to Snappers Ledge which mainly is an easy wall dive with not so much of a pelagic to be seen. They however understood that it was only a checkout dive.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The highlight however came to happen on the 3rd day when we finally managed to get a look at the infamous hammerhead shark. Having encountered such shark has always been an exciting and great experience for me although I may have seen them many times throughout my diving in Layang-layang water.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The nest few days were decorated with some sighting of devil rays, eagle rays, even manta and other reef sharks. Those sighting sure had made some smiles with satisfaction even though some actually craved for more excitement and much more grand sighting of pelagic. You can&#8217;t of course satisfy everyone right.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, the great news arrived today with the sighting of hammerhead sharks schooling at one of my favorite site, Wrasse Strip. I had a back to back sighting of hammerhead sharks schooling at this particular site for the past 2 years. Although my group was not the one who saw them : ( it was still a great news for all of us here in Layang_Layang especially.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Fingers all crossed for tomorrow as I am going to have another try with the sharks before I hand over this group to other Divemaster as I am in need for out gassing for a day at least. Once a nitro junky, forever one.</p>
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Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">The weather on the island was great. Although a bit dry and warm the breeze helps to cool you down just nice. For the past few days I have been gazing at the open sea of <a class="zem_slink" title="Swallow Reef" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_Reef">Layang-Layang</a> hoping to catch a glimpse of dolphin&#8217;s pod. Even though still none for the moment I am sure the time will come when we get to enjoy their playfulness chasing the wave and race the boat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today however we were finally given the green light by Jasper to do one dive to check out on one of the best dive site on the resort, the infamous Gorgonian Forest. After an hour of last minute check on our my dive gears which seem very happy to give me some troubles such as regulator free flowing and the BCD inflator that never seem to work, we were finally ready to take our first plunge into the site.</p>
<p>With Averil as the leading Dive Master and me and Nelly as the member of the team we planned a short 30 minutes dive. The boat trip was a bit choppy from the channel to the site.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Approximately around 10:15am all of us were already underwater. The Water temperature was just nice at 27 centigrade. Current however was fast and steady. We chose to enter the water a bit further behind to have more accuracy on the entry point. The first 5 minutes we were swimming towards the blue water with anticipation of bumping into something great. Surgeon fish lining up with the blue background along with school of  fusiliers indicating presence of currents. Just after about a minute later at 27 meters, we finally spotted a scalloped <a class="zem_slink" title="Hammerhead shark" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark">hammerhead shark</a> gliding gracefully amidst the fishes and seemed curious at the sight of three of us. It stayed around for a minute before decided we were not that interesting(that hurts). Luckily, it made another circle before heading towards the reef leaving us drifting to the other direction. It was amazing. To make it better, one gray reef shark approached from behind to have closer look at us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10 minutes later, after heading back to the beautiful reef slope we were greeted by a school of bigeye trevally underneath us along with few white tip reef sharks lazying on the the reef. As if those were not enough we spotted 2 eagle rays gracefully glide over us followed by a devil ray.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once we were approaching the Point however, we were facing a bit of a down current which had sent us out again before pushing us back to the slope. Again, it brought us to another smaller school of bigeye trevally just over the top of the slope.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All the excitement have made us realized of how much you don&#8217;t realize the time as by then, it was already time to end the dive. It felt short.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am still anticipating for bigger surprise as for tomorrow, we will dive into one of my favorite site, Wrasse Strip the site full of surprises and beauty. Come back again for more update on Layang-Layang action and surprises.</p>
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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">The weather on the island was great. Although a bit dry and warm the breeze helps to cool you down just nice. For the past few days I have been gazing at the open sea of <a class="zem_slink" title="Swallow Reef" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallow_Reef">Layang-Layang</a> hoping to catch a glimpse of dolphin&#8217;s pod. Even though still none for the moment I am sure the time will come when we get to enjoy their playfulness chasing the wave and race the boat.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Today however we were finally given the green light by Jasper to do one dive to check out on one of the best dive site on the resort, the infamous Gorgonian Forest. After an hour of last minute check on our my dive gears which seem very happy to give me some troubles such as regulator free flowing and the BCD inflator that never seem to work, we were finally ready to take our first plunge into the site.</p>
<p>With Averil as the leading Dive Master and me and Nelly as the member of the team we planned a short 30 minutes dive. The boat trip was a bit choppy from the channel to the site.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Approximately around 10:15am all of us were already underwater. The Water temperature was just nice at 27 centigrade. Current however was fast and steady. We chose to enter the water a bit further behind to have more accuracy on the entry point. The first 5 minutes we were swimming towards the blue water with anticipation of bumping into something great. Surgeon fish lining up with the blue background along with school of  fusiliers indicating presence of currents. Just after about a minute later at 27 meters, we finally spotted a scalloped <a class="zem_slink" title="Hammerhead shark" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerhead_shark">hammerhead shark</a> gliding gracefully amidst the fishes and seemed curious at the sight of three of us. It stayed around for a minute before decided we were not that interesting(that hurts). Luckily, it made another circle before heading towards the reef leaving us drifting to the other direction. It was amazing. To make it better, one gray reef shark approached from behind to have closer look at us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">10 minutes later, after heading back to the beautiful reef slope we were greeted by a school of bigeye trevally underneath us along with few white tip reef sharks lazying on the the reef. As if those were not enough we spotted 2 eagle rays gracefully glide over us followed by a devil ray.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Once we were approaching the Point however, we were facing a bit of a down current which had sent us out again before pushing us back to the slope. Again, it brought us to another smaller school of bigeye trevally just over the top of the slope.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">All the excitement have made us realized of how much you don&#8217;t realize the time as by then, it was already time to end the dive. It felt short.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am still anticipating for bigger surprise as for tomorrow, we will dive into one of my favorite site, Wrasse Strip the site full of surprises and beauty. Come back again for more update on Layang-Layang action and surprises.</p>
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Start uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">Layang-Layang island is an atoll located 330km from Kota Kinabalu. It is known to be one of the spot for a chance of close encounter with the infamous <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8376000/8376740.stm" target="_blank">hammerhead sharks</a>. A part of the 600 islands, reefs and shoals of Spratly&#8217;s, it is surrounded by clear water occupied by rich diversity of marine life.</p>
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<p>The atoll itself is surrounded by walls and steep drop offs to average of 40meters to 60meters before plunging down to as deep as 2000meters. Due to its location by deep water, the chance for sighting of pelagic species are high especially during March to June. It also considered as the healthiest reef in Malaysia due to minimum exposure to man-made pollution.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The best way to reach the island is by plane which takes about an hour from Kota Kinabalu International Airport. Currently, the resort is chartering a 12 seats plane from Malaysia Airlines.</p>
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Ending uga_filter: <p style="text-align: justify;">Layang-Layang island is an atoll located 330km from Kota Kinabalu. It is known to be one of the spot for a chance of close encounter with the infamous <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8376000/8376740.stm" target="_blank">hammerhead sharks</a>. A part of the 600 islands, reefs and shoals of Spratly&#8217;s, it is surrounded by clear water occupied by rich diversity of marine life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p style="text-align: justify;">
<p>The atoll itself is surrounded by walls and steep drop offs to average of 40meters to 60meters before plunging down to as deep as 2000meters. Due to its location by deep water, the chance for sighting of pelagic species are high especially during March to June. It also considered as the healthiest reef in Malaysia due to minimum exposure to man-made pollution.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The best way to reach the island is by plane which takes about an hour from Kota Kinabalu International Airport. Currently, the resort is chartering a 12 seats plane from Malaysia Airlines.</p>
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