To Bali Again (part III)

So finally all the courses has ended! Congrates to me and Billy! :p But the dives hasn't last yet, we've planned to have at very least 10 dives on this trip. So after we all done at Tulamben, we went straight back to Amed: having surface interval, seeing Izan, having our lunch, resting for a lil while.

The next dive was at Japanese ship wreck, Amed. We've been there before on our previous trip for two dives: one was on a rainy evening and there were current so the dive was short, and the other was on night dive. I love wrecks, and I was still curious with Japanese ship wreck. I met an octopus there before and a baracuda while we were night diving. So I guess we should go back there again, and enjoy its beauty for longer time at day.

Our guide was Pak Nyoman. We had a deal to leave the hotel at 2 and Pak Nyoman was on time. It was raining, visibility wasn't really good at about probably 7-10 meters but there wasn't any current. We dive for maximum 17 meters deep since I just dove to 40 meters in the morning. U see, this is exactly the reason why I need a dive computer, I'm glad tha I finally decided to buy my self one!

I will give you a short explaination...

When we dive to the deep our blood aren't just absorbing oxygen but also nitrogen. The deeper we dive the more nitrogen we had in our blood, thus we need longer surface interval before starting another dive and we need to count how much is our decompression time last. If we don't have a dive computer we actually still can have a safe dive by counting it on a dive table, but seriously that's sucha lazy thing to do! :p

I never count my deco time before, I'd just trust my dive master/guide. Ha ha... but don't copy that, that's one example of diving error! Now that I have my own dive com, I now really understand how clumsy I was just by trusting the dive guide for my own safety. It happened on the next day...

The next day we went for another three dives, all are jukung dives. Jukung is the local's fisherman's boat. The boat is very small, only fit for four people I guess. I never ride a jukung before, so then I finally try it! Yippy!

on Jukung.

The first dive that day was at jemeluk, Amed. Maximum depth we reached was 29.4 meters. We actually already told our guide to keep our depth to 25 meters max, but I guess the beauty has dazzled us to go deeper. My deco time is shorter then Billy's or our guide's. Yes, it's because I dove deeper on the day before. After some while at the deepest level I realized that I only have 1 more minute left to be on that level, thanks to my dive computer! Ha... you see, buying a dive computer is soooo worth for my safety! So then we ascending to minimize our depth.

The first and second dive was fun. The second dive was at Pyramid, Amed. But the third dive wasn't very well. Since we dive quite deep on our first dive in the morning, my deco time gets even shorter plus there was time when we need to swim through a current. So I gotta split my concentration for my deco time I have last, and how to keep up with our guide through the current. Huh! I don't really like it. When I dive I want it to be so relax so I can enjoy every single thing I see at the deep. :p

the pyramid

And before the last dive, our guide has forgotten to bring along our weight belts from the previous jukung. Yes, we use different jukung on our last dive. Don't blame us, he told us to leave our belts and he'd take care of it. Then he asked us to set up all his equipments for him while he picked up our belts... Hah, that's the first time on our history that we have to set up our guide's equipment! Our dive guide seemed so hasty and we don't know for what reason.

And at the end of the dive when I was still at about 10 meters deep, somehow Billy has only last 30 bars oxygen. I was too focus to get a picture of a tiny crab hiding in a coral while Billy and our guide was already having their 3 minutes five meters stop. Ha?? So then I ascend, and there goes my dive com protest for every time I ascending too fast. Everytime I ascend faster then 10 meters/minute it goes beep beep beep!!!!! And when I was having my three minutes stop at 5 meters (while Billy and our guide was already at the surface), there goes the buoyancy problem :p

Somehow when I'm higher then 5 meters deep at the end of a dive I get veeeeeery easy to come up to the surface and be positive buoyant. It feels like there's a magnet that pulling me up. And that is what happen on our last dive. I haven't complete my three minutes stop yet but oh... I was already at the surface??? As the result, I got a quite annoying headache just as I get in the jukung. Bah!

I think my headache is because I haven't complete my three minutes stop, while our guide thinks it's because we have fought a current. I don't know which is right...

So there, our dives has finally end. And next thing to do is to pay all fun dives we had to the dive operator. Apparently Billy didn't bring enough cash while they only accept cash. Billy purposing an idea to pay them tomorrow after we get more cash at the closest city that has an ATM. Somewhat our dive guide really insist to get his cash that evening, and he even proposed if we can lent money from the hotel we're staying and pay them back with credit card. He even called our dive instructor who's also the hotel owner for such idea, but of course she disagree with it.

It was so humiliating! We definitely will pay, why wouldn't we?! They should have credit card machine, since we're not paying them as if we're paying for food or what. Thumb down for such service. The next chance if we go back to Amed for fun dive, we will use other dive operator. Period.

Meanwhile, I will let you enjoy some of my shots I managed to take during my dives....

hello nemo!

lion fish

lil grumpy shrimp

blue ribon eel

porcupine fish

big old coral

stone fish

timid lil crab

To be continued...