Tioman Dive Trip

This is yet again an overdue post.

My Goddess and the Horny Devil decided to do something out of their normal boring weekends of staying at home/taking pictures for Paper Polly by going on a dive trip at Tioman with their friends.

So they left SG on Fri May 21 evening at 8pm with their scuba diving school, U-scuba.

Reached Malaysia for a dinner/supper pitstop at 11plus. Think this was a pitstop for all divers cos u can see alot of young people in singlets eating there.

Sweet and slurpilicious winter melon tea

And extremely yummy & juicy satay with lots of tender fats!

And they reached their boat at around 12-1am. The boat was really small, but it had everything!

The beds

My Goddess was supposed to sleep in this little room with the Horny Devil. But it was just too cold (as you can see the aircon was just right above them), and too shaky (it was at the front part of the boat and so was shaking non-stop and violently) hence making her seasick. So she slept at the smaller bunks instead. On the first night, my Goddess couldn't get used to the shakiness of the boat and had to take seasick pills and put the 'giam giam' in her mouth for the night.

More pictures of the boat...

The fridge and dry kitchen area

The wet kitchen area

The deck

The boat really has everything. Beside the dry kitchen area, there was a 'lounge' area for them to watch DVD. Behind the wet kitchen was where they stored all the oxygen tank and dive equipment. That's the place where they launch off into the water too.

And being on the LOB (live on board) dive trip also made my Goddess feel truly like a goddess. Besides the sun deck that made them feel like some 'ah-sias' on a yatch, living a high maintenance life, every time they get back up onto the boat from a dive, they will be served drinks like orange cordial, ribena, barley drink and fruits!

And meals are really sumptuous with plenty of dishes and variety.

And there are plenty of fishes too who won't mind sharing their meal.


Tioman is also quite a scenic place.

Diving was quite a scary thing for my Goddess. She had to overcome her fear of going deep underwater after hearing a horror story from her fellow CY. She almost didn't want to go on the trip.



But in the end, she glad that she did. Because like driving license, it is a license that is good to have. So that you have one more option of going scuba diving when you are out overseas or planning for a short getaway trips.

Although I must say that my Goddess didn't get to see much things underwater. Probably because (1) she was too nervous underwater trying to remember the steps to take - breathe slowly through the mouth, maintain buoyancy underwater and equalizing the air pressure inside her body; and (2) part of her goggles were fogged up by the 2nd day, and she most of her time either clearing her goggles or peering through the fog.

Don't know how the others managed to see these interesting sea creatures.


My Goddess only managed to see nemos.

The U-scuba team and friends

Photos courtesy of U-scuba and Kok Teng.