Sleep... It's Important. P.Tioman Day 2

Starting the 2nd day I was worried but decided that I will push through anything that is handed to me.  I sought out the seasickness pills that was given to me by Dr. Ravi (our family physician), and took the pills with a little bit of bread.  I was determined not to be the provider of food for the fish around tioman again today.  

Everybody was up and ready at 9am and off we went to the Dive Centre where as usual our fearless leader was there and getting ready for his brief.  I have a lot of respect for Nizam, he never mentioned once of the incidents that happened yesterday and told us all to expect an awesome dive today.  We had 2 shores dives planned for today and lots of exercises that we are planning to do.  He also stated that not to worry about the dive and instead enjoy yourselves during the dive. 

1st Dive....

So we did the exact same thing, we prepared all our equipment and got ready.  We had our normal buddy check.  My buddy for all the dives is my 10 year old daughter, while my 14 year old son was my wife's buddy.  After the per-requisite buddy check we were in the water.  I felt so much better, I had at least 8 hours of sleep and my body was feeling good at this point.  It really translated to the dive, it was awesome.  I never thought that I would be able to experience this type of environment, it was great and the whole family was so having a grand old time throughout the 1st dive.  I would recommend this activity for any family it really brought us all together doing an activity that we never thought we would ever be doing.  

This was the pair of sotongs that we saw swimming around.

Little Fish, I thought it was ikan bilis but there was no pizza hut in tioman

Told my daughter that it was vegetables

breathtaking.. we were underwater... yeahhh

I can't believe that they bury themselves in a hole

the 2nd Dive... 

After about 3 hours doing all the different exercises, we headed back in with renewed vigor and excitement for the 2nd Dive.  By the time we arrived at the Dive Centre our friends had arrived and we were chatting about the awesome sights that we had seen whilst underwater, and they told us that we are in for more amazing scenery as we go deeper and further.  I couldn't wait for the 2nd dive.  This was certainly a flip to what I was feeling on Day 1.  We had a simple but great lunch and I have to remark that when you are with friends it makes the whole experience more exciting.  

After about 2 hours, we were ready and rearing to go again.  Did the whole buddy check again, but this time, they decided that it was time for us to dive from the jetty where we would be able to practice our giant step / stride.  That was exciting and after clearing the jetty, we were also asked to do a CESA, which is a Control Emergency Surface Ascent... hopefully I got the acronym right, but with that bit of exercise done, we were allowed to take a leisure dive exploring the area.  Even though I had felt a lot better, but I had caught my daughter's fever and felt my sinuses being pressed in my head, so my descend was a lot of slower and I had to constantly equalize, but I wasn't going to miss this adventure. 

 

A nudie... awesome little creature.. lots of variation

Triangle Fish (Bawal I think).. creating a vortex under the salang jetty

Another fish vortex.. Great

Another view of a school of fish under the salang jetty

That's me... not a whale shark as some had said

The 2nd dive ended with the whole family wanting more and after cleaning our equipment, we were given a briefing by our divemaster.  He told us that we would be going to Pulau Labas and Batu Malang, and it would be our 1st boat dives in the middle of South China Sea.... Wow.