Sabah, Kota Kinabalu - Day 2 (25-June-2008)

Nemo day

2 dive sessions at Sapi Island, with the guidance from 3 instructors, Mus, Eugene and Bob. This is just an introductory diving session, where we will dive to maximum 6 meters only.

Everyone was so exciting to get the wet suit and diving tools.

Due to hot sun and only 2 people can choose the wet suit and diving tools at one time, the one who queue was the baskets instead.

Then, queue to get onto the boat.

We are READY!

Mainly we need to learn 3 things, (1)how to remove the water from the mask while diving, (2) how to get back the oxygen mask in the water (3)simple hand signal. The first lesson is hard, as my mask's plastic was harden and not flexible. After a few fail attempts, Bob lend me his Private used mask. WOw... good quality stuff is really different. Hoo Yin and I were teamed up to dive with Bob. Either he is great or both of us are very obedient.. so we dive for quite long compared to the rest. The hard part of the diving is how to control the breathing, and sometimes will get stuck for trying to use the nose to breath. As using the mouth to breath for too long, the whole mouth seems dehydrate and the throat is extremely dry. It makes me wanted to cough and this is the first time I used the hand signal to request to surface. The second time, my goggles was not wear properly and loosen... so.. surface again. Sorry ya.. Hoo Yin, got to drag your time as well.

There's only one cafe in this small island for us to have lunch, in fact, it is quite nice. After rest for about 2 hours, for lunch and photo session, we continued with the second dive session. This time, Ee Ling did not join us as she really feel uncomfortable with diving. This is a longer distance dive, which we seems to reach the other side of the island, and we travel back with a boat. By the time we reached the beach, it is about 5pm and the we are the last batch of people on the island.

Dinner at a chinese restaurant nearby. A small shop but filled with people. It is amazing to know that they serve food really fast, yummy and cheap. Sure the boss very rich.