A new group of Seahounds have progressed to donning more tanks to admire historical wrecks, stay with their favourite animal longer and to visit sites deeper than the recreational limit!
Whatever the reason may be, they are ALL well trained in decompression procedures.
They spent the last 3 weeks conditioning themselves to their new configuration of twin tanks on their backs and stage bottles by their sides, training in emergency and contingency procedures and drills and most importantly getting back to BASIC scuba skills!
It was a good reminder of how vital mastering basic skills are to progress to any level.
The team never thought they would be finning in so many directions for so long, clearing their masks so often and removing and replacing their regulators so much!!
Then it was out to Open Water where the team visited their favourite sites only this time below 50m! Chronicles of their Narcossis will follow this post...i think.
Animal action on the trip:
At the depths we were at, we were able to observe a myriad of heart urchins(lovenia elongata) moving quickly around the sand as other urchins would move under the cover of night. Urchins(echinoidea) are one of 5 classes of phylum echinodermata (meaning spiny skinned)including holothurians(sea cucumbers), crinoids, sea stars, and brittle stars. Other observations included peacock flounders and flatheads.
On the surface, we had the priviledge of watching a 2.5m black marlin tail-walking just off the salang jetty, right before our morning dive on Sunday!
Expanding their diving knowledge is something the whole tec team has taken away from both the Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures courses. We trust the theory sessions on technical diving have provided new perspectives on recreational diving.
Welcome S e a H o u n d s T e c T e a m :
Team 1: Ken Wong, Vincent Chew, Glenn Wong, Jacki Ng (Gill Divers)
Team 2: Sabine Henkel, Christina Goh, Jonathan Lam, Michelle Tan
Trainers: Eugene Sim (Dive Atlantis), Stephen Beng
Ken and Glenn are also trained Semi-closed Rebreather divers and are able to silently get closer to the animals...woohoo!!
will now wait silently for the team members personal accounts. . . .
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