Somehow all the waitress there remember us and especially Izan. When they help us to unload our bags from the car, they all said hi to Izan in a very warm way as if they just met him yesterday. I'd like to give thumbs up for their hospitality. It feels like staying at family's house. :)
What also good about Bayu Cottage is that they have TV cable, So Izan wouldn't get bored when we leave him for diving... Ok now, enough about the hotel!
We didn't came to Amed just to dive but also to take some specialty courses as I told you before. After loooong discussion while planning the trip, finally we made up our mind for what specialty we want to take. Billy toke digital underwater photography, which I think is good for him since he likes (and understand well) photography. I toke peak performance buoyancy, which I think is good since it will be the first dive with my all new equipments (hoohoo), and deep dive specialty cause I think it will be very useful.
>>with my dive instructor and her 60s year old Dutch girl friend at Tulamben.
Billy has no problem at all with the course and his all new equipments. He used the same weight as he used to, his buoyancy was good. He just need to take some pictures with our instructor's camera and at the other time later they will discuss the result. It looks fun!
While me... my buoyancy was totally awful on the first dive. I used to use 3 kilos weight, but when we start to descend somehow my feet are more buoyant then my head. I couldn't descend unless I wave my feet to go down, and then I have to hold on a rope to keep being on the water or else I would straightly ascending. As my instructor find out my problem she then ask for one of Billy's weight and try to put it on my BCD pocket... but she couldn't find my pocket, and silly me I didn't remember where all the pockets I have are!? Well, it was my first dive with that BCD. :)
Long story short, we cancel our first dive to get me more weights. Oh wait, before we back to the shore, my instructor has finally managed to put one more weight from Billy to my BCD but I was still positive buoyant. At the end I have to put 5 kilos weight to get a neutral buoyant. It wasn't a problem when being underwater, but it made me so difficult to lift my self to the shore at the beginning. Oh I was so lame!
The problem is on my divesuit. It's as same thick as Billys' but with different fabric. Somehow my divesuit keeps more air then Billys' and it needs to take quite some while until all its pores are filled with water, before that I became more buoyant. So next time I should soak my divesuit overnight before every first dive! Lesson learned!
The next dive went well. Peak performance buoyancy (PPB) specialty course needs 2 dives, digital underwater photography takes 3 dives, and deep dive takes 4. So my PPB course ended that day after two dives at Amed.
The next day we went to Tulamben for two dives, and I began with my deep dive course. Preparing my self for deep dive course, I finally decided to buy a dive computer. It wasn't just for the course, it's for my every dive since that time and later on. But being "gaptek" at first I didn't really know what is important to see on a dive computer. I thought dive computer is like a robot that will tell me when to do what. Yeah, fool! Later on review my instructor told me that that is one example of diving error.. ha ha!
>>Mares Nemo Sport dive computer
At the third day we still toke 2 dives at Tulamben, but on different spot at each dive. Ah I forget to tell that on the day before at Tulamben, it was then my regulator's turn to give me problem... it leaked! Blah! Enough said!
On the third day I managed to reduce my weight to 4 kilos...errr... maybe it was at the second day?? But anyway... on the third day, the 5th dive, I descended to 40 meters deep, the limit I can get after taking deep dive specialty. IT-WAS-AWE-SOME!!!
I can shorten my story about my deep dive course with this... It's from my instructor's blog telly about my course. :)
to be continued...
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