Diving on Dayang Island, Malaysia

Friday night 7pm, Ryan, Suzie, Prassad, Marcus and I were ready to leave for our diving trip. Our instructor, Dennis, introduced us to Adrianna, our attractive dive master who was to accompany us throughout the trip. After entering Malaysia question-free, as is the standard with my shiny-blue passport, we learned that the bridge we were supposed to drive over had collapsed, which added an hour to the regular 4.5-hour drive to Mersing port. We boarded our old diving boat around midnight, and slept for a few hours on the deck. By 4:45am, we finally reached the pier at Dayang Island, a remote diving paradise.

We completed three dives on Saturday, and were fortunate enough to spot barracudas, highly-aggressive trigger fish, thousands of colourful fish, beautiful corals etc. We basically repeated the pool skills in open water. The food was surprisingly good, and reached its peak at Saturday night’s BBQ. On Sunday, we had two more fun dives, and packed up by noon for a very rough boat ride back to Mersing. I fell asleep on the deck, and got pretty severe sunburn on my left ankle, the only piece of skin exposed to the sun. By 11:30pm, I was back home in Heritage.

Here are a few pictures. I should be getting underwater pictures in the next few days, and I will make sure to post these as well.