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Sorry its been while, but we've been busy!
So whats happened? We landed in kuala lumpar and stayed for two nights, but didnt see much of the city. It seemed alike to singapore but a little less sterile.
We arrived in Malaysia with a couple of ideas of what to do; we could go diving in the perhentian islands for a few days and then maybe hire a car, or go to borneo.
We booked flights to khota baru as it just wasn't in our budget to see borneo this time around. From khota baru its a 1 hour taxi ride, and then a 30min boat ride to the perhentian islands. The islands sit on the east side of Malaysia.
It was only once we got onto the big island that we realised we were without a cash point, so all food has been planned around placing that accept credit card (for a fee of course).
So we planned to stay for a few days and see how the diving goes.... and we stayed for 11 days. The malaysia we saw was under the sea.
So what have we seen and done over the last 11 days?
- turtles eating coral
- black tip reef sharks
- nudibranches (basically sea slugs)
- giant puffer fish
- barracuda
- cuttlefish
- shrimps
- our divemaster doing the moon walk on the underside of the boat (upside down)
- we've been attacked by a trigger fish
- been nibbled by wrasses
- been inside a wreck
- saw nemos
- saw monitor lizards (not under the sea)
- bats the size of dogs
- scorpian fish
- lion fish (weird looking)
- box fish (weird looking)
- pipe fish (weird looking)
- needle fish
- blue spotted rays
- giant moray eel
- white eyed moral eels
- batfish
- trevally eating other fish
- angel fish
- whip coral shrimp
- squamose giant clams
after 18 dives we able to spot a lot of things our divemasters pointed out, so we decided to do a course. Ryan wanted to do the rescue course, little did he know how much work was involved in this course.....
- cpr
- emergency oxygen administration
- towing unresponsive divers while giving rescue breathes every 5 seconds
- removing divers from the water and carrying them onto the beach / or patoon / or rocks / or boat
- ascending with an unresponsive diver to the surface
- dealing with panicked divers (including those who try to climb on top of you)
- handling panicked divers underwater ; runway ascents, out of air emergencies, entanglements etc.
- self rescue
so after rescue and removing our instructor (88kg) out of the water countless times over 2 days, we now have broken bodies from all the physical exertion.
Leigh-Anne has cuts all over her hands and knees from pulling our instructor out of the water onto rocks covered in barnacles which cut like glass. Her hands sting whenever they get wet.
We both have bruised hands from giving CPR.
but we're now qualified to give cpr and rescue other divers
- comments
Mal Wow, groovy stuff! Will you be moving to the coast once you get back to Blighty then? ;)
Kathryn Cool stuff you two. How do you all those fishy names?? Xx