Blue Water Wreck - 9th July 2006

Now.. I've got BW II - The Return... for Blue Water III... it will be... BW III - The Orange Cloud...

The day before BW III dive, it was pouring! Pouring so hard that DI Normie asked me to pray to wutever God i prayed to for good weather. Although I didnt manage to pray, someone must had because the sea was calm and the weather was just right! Within 25minutes or so, we arrived Blue Water and found the marker buoy...! Excellentttt.... The batfishes were alreday showing their fins to greet us. (Cute Manta tot that it was a shark. Hmmm....) After a quick briefing from DI Normie, we all geared up and back-rolled down.... We were happy to meet our "frens" there again; the batfishes, barracudas, yellow-tail trevallies, jacks, the huge stonefish, groupers, clown triggerfish, long-nose hawkfishes and others...We also saw some bones from either a big fish or turtle perhaps? While doing our safety stop, we suddenly saw wut i call " The Orange Cloud" that's coming towards the wreck. In my heart, I thought "OMG, was it a shark attacking some big fish that is bleeding?" When at surface, I asked DI Normie and he told me that it was a school of Krills! No wonder the trevallies and batfishes had their mouth wide-opened! It was as if they were saying "YAY..! FOOD! FEEDING TIME...!"

During our surface interval, which is also OUR feeding time (haha!), we saw a liveaboard ship - The Dive Master from Thailand. The DM from the DM boat came and greeted us. He then told us at 34metres which is bottom right after the descent line, we can actually see black and yello frog fish! We decided to look for it. Me and Eugene was searching for frogfishes when suddenly we heard ring-ring... it was Elvin's ringer and he spotted something! I turn to look for him but Chang's fins was stirring up too much sand and the viz went very bad. I couldnt see a thing and just wait for the sand to settle. I then saw something.. what i tot really look like a frog! When the viz got clearer, i found out that it was just a metal from the wreck and my imagination! I must be thinking too hard of frog fish! haha.. Elvin then pointed at a cuttlefish. So he rang becos he saw the cuttlefish... Doh! But, oh well.. better then seeing nothing and spending less dive time at 34m.

We went to Rusukan Kecil for our 3rd dive. The current was sooooooooooo strong that Angel couldnt complete her underwater navigator. Anny managed to pass her Advanced skill! Yay..! We got up after like 15 to 20mins... we were drifted and could not swim back to the boat. Thank God for the "Storm Whistle" that we managed to call Hj Kura to the rescue! Haha...

Wonder what the next episode of blue water will be called? Next dive... night dive anyone?