Aug 27 Fun Dive - Break @ Sepok Island

The Dive Team taking a break after the 1st dive and attain required dive interval before the 2nd dive of the day...

Our 1st dive was at Darilaot...where we had the chance to visit the sunken remains of a once floating casino; marine life of note included batfish, cuttlefish...2nd dive was at the Sepok Wall...we dropped anchor on a shallow 20-foot reef where there is an adjacent drop (sepok wall) and we achieved maximum 80+feet...great dive and I approached 300psi at safety stop before finally ascending with the rest of the team.


Sepok Island...ever wondered how divers "pee" thru a wetsuit? :)

Leah, Rexie, and Ed. Rexie was also ex-Intel.

(L-R) Assistant DM Modec, AJ (Allan's 10yr old kid, junior open water diver), DM Allan Umali, Leah, Rexie, Neil Que (Advance OW), Vener (Advance Student), and me with my built-in "salbabida" around my waist... :) need some work on my pot belly! Ed is behind the camera.

Anilao Fun Dive Aug-6-2005

The weather was bad. It had been a week of rain and strong winds as Metro Manila, and a good part of North/South Luzon, including Cavite was ravaged by a typhoon.

It was not any better the Saturday morning as we drive to Outrigger Resort in Anilao, Batangas. At one point in Tagaytay, I thought of cancelling the dive as almost zero visibility due to fog welcomed us all the way to the road going down to Lemery.

But our DM assured us over the cellphone that the dive is a Go! and there would be places around Anilao where the waves are calmer and manageable. "Diving is an all-season sport" he declared.

True enough, the waves and the weather at Gamao (nr. Bonito Island) and Mainit dive points were relatively fair...it was even calmer underwater where the marine world seemed oblivious to the stormy skies above.