Assalamualaikum
SCIENCESS people, good evening ;)
Have you ever thought of moving around underwater using swimfins attached to the feet, and sightseeing those beautiful underwater animals, sealife and sea creatures?
This time, those who wanted to have a scuba diving licence,
RM900 (including all those equipments and accommodation in one package) is needed.
On the 23rd till 26th of March, majority of the Marine students (14 students), 3 students from Environment students, one student from Food Biotechnology students and another one 3rd year Biomed student, went for 4 days and 3 nights trip at Tioman Island, Pahang for their scuba diving licence.
In the period of 4 days there, they were supposed to snorkel about 200m from the shore on the first day and on the second day, they had to sink nearby the shore about 1m plus deep which needed them to be geared up with their own BCD (Bouyancy Control Device), fins and a regulator. Besides, skills like mask clearing, fin rivet and regulator recovery were taught by the Dive Masters. The second dive was 3m deep. All the students had to practice a new skill -
equalizing.
Equalize is when we pop our ears by pressing our nose and closing our mouth to overcome the water pressure at every 1m. The third dive was scarier which was about 7.8m deep. They had to hold on a thick rope and deflate the air whenever they need to, to dive in until they reached the house reef located at the bottom of the sea, and at the same time, equalise. This time they had the chance the chance to see a few corals which might be poisonous.
On day 3, they needed to go to the house reef again, but this time they had to swim to it and swim back to the shore, 100% underwater. In the evening, they had to learn how to do a
back dive -- learning how to control buoyancy and kicking skills.
From this experience, one of the official open water scuba diver, Anis Syazana said in her blog,
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What I learnt from this experience is that being underwater is actually quite dangerous. Therefore, besides having our mind, body and soul ready for the challenge, we have to make sure that our basics are strong and the precaution steps are well understood and can be well practiced. There were a lot of things to be digested regarding this. The corals preservation, the water pressure control, the do and dont's." -- you guys may go and view her
blog and read the further stories how well it went!
And more photos
here!
(Credits to Sis. Anis Syazana & Sis. Siti Nur Munirah)
Yours sincerely,
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