The Scuba Diving Thread

[stormchild]

I'd really recomend saving all the money for the Aur/Tioman trips for places like Manado, Andamans(Phuket), Mindano and Borneo. After diving some of these places, I really regret wasting my money on those weekend trips. Alas time is not on my side since I'm now tied down by family commitments.

Another really sweet place to dive would be the great African rift lakes... Malawi and Tanganyika.

[David Moses Heng]

haha xiao guilin is only open to the diving unit for training depth dive. normal people not allowed. i'm saf trained for diving. looking to convert to advance water diving license.

if ever i get activated to dive in bedok for whatever reason, will update you guys what the bottom is like. but its most probably very muddy with zero visibility like anywhere else in singapore.

didn't know that Guilin is used by SAF/NDU for depth trainings..... Care to share what you guys sees there?

[Samuel2618]

Another really sweet place to dive would be the great African rift lakes... Malawi and Tanganyika.

Haha Bro..

You going diving or fish sighthing? Looks to me you are going to accomdate both a dive trip cum fish tour.. Never tried diving in fresh water lake before.. IMO.. I think the vis will be rather poor to dive in.. The only good thing I see in diving in fresh water areas is that you do not need to wash your dive equipments..

[Savant]

I'd really recomend saving all the money for the Aur/Tioman trips for places like Manado, Andamans(Phuket), Mindano and Borneo. After diving some of these places, I really regret wasting my money on those weekend trips. Alas time is not on my side since I'm now tied down by family commitments.

In my view, Aur/Tioman represents a cheap and good place to polish up one's diving skills... Manado, etc for a later more advanced stage when you trim and air consumption is improved.... It would be a drag having spent all the money to get to Manado only to run out of air in every dive after 20 mins due to having to fight current, or dropping your camera/etc into the bottomless deep...

[Aquaculture]

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