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I hope it's ok I post a trip to Indonesia in the BKK Divers section.
Day 1 - spent the entire day traveling. Didn't have a Visa so had to first fly to KL departing BKK 7:15am than KL to Medan where I got a Visa on Arrival for $25USD. Than another flight Medan to Banda Aceh. Arrived at my hotel around 5pm. Missed the ferry by about 2 hours.
Day 2 - caught the 09:30am ferry and arrived Lamba Lamba around 11:30am. Went through all the formalities smoothly. First dive was to Arus Balee, a pinnacle dive. Went down to 35m and basically circled our way back up. Had some current , more of a circling surge. Alot of nice gorgonian fans, big reef fish, alot of jacks, a turtle and a small blacktip. Wish the vis was better. At best it was 15m. At 500psi I signaled to my DM and he kept saying ok. Even when I told him 200psi he signaled ok I know that most regulators are balanced around 110-120psi so I had some room, but at 180 I surfaced. Total bottom time 85 minutes.
Day 3 - woke up early and went for a early morning snorkel. Morning dive was going to be a deep water checkout dive to see if I was ok to dive the deepwater wreck. We went to "The Canyon" which was another just offshore pinnacle dive, but instead of a single pinnacle this dive had at least three. We entered and went straight down. Suppose to go to 45 meters, but to make sure there was no doubt I could handle depth I ended bottoming out at 56m. As before we slowly made are way back and from 50 to 25m the vis was good and the marinelife plentiful. We saw 1 large barracuda, but that was it as far as pelagics. Even though there was loads of reef fish. At about 20m we lost vis and there was alot of surging current. All in all a very good dive. The sea was flat and as I write still flat. Total bottom time 58 minutes
Last edited by fm2002; March 9th, 2010 at 01:23 AM.
Thanks for the first installment of the report.
Please consider placing the trip report in the Indonesia forum so that other people searching for info on Weh could find it easily.
(you could pm a moderator to move this thread)
I'm impressed you made it all the way to Banda Aceh in one day, even though it took three flights and you still missed the ferry.
Did you reserve the Medan > Banda Aceh tickets in advance? or did you just buy them on the spot?
Thanks for the first installment of the report.
Please consider placing the trip report in the Indonesia forum so that other people searching for info on Weh could find it easily.
(you could pm a moderator to move this thread)
I'm impressed you made it all the way to Banda Aceh in one day, even though it took three flights and you still missed the ferry.
Did you reserve the Medan > Banda Aceh tickets in advance? or did you just buy them on the spot?
Probably will, but I thought i would take care of the home boyz first. Lumba Lumba hooked with a travel agency that I could book online and pay via paypal. So I booked, paid and received my ticket from Medan to Banda Aceh on Garuda through email. Here is their web address:
thanks for the link.
I actually have used these guys before for tickets on Merpati (Makassar to Sorong) for my Raja Ampat trip. Found them to be easy to deal with. They clearly increased their profit through a manipulation of the exchange rate. Unfortunately, there are very few alternatives for booking domestic Indonesian flights from outside Indonesia.
Suppose to go to 45 meters, but to make sure there was no doubt I could handle depth I ended bottoming out at 56m.
How do you "handle depth" ? What kind of gas were you using and what does your profile look like? I'm just curious as I've never done this kind of dive.
The way is to the destructive element submit yourself,
and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water
make the deep, deep sea keep you up...
How do you "handle depth" ? What kind of gas were you using and what does your profile look like? I'm just curious as I've never done this kind of dive.
Hmmm sounds like a baiting question to me but I'll bite sort of. I'm not one that goes deep to say I went deep and unless there's some very good reason to do so why do it. So my original comment doesn't really sum up my approach to diving.
Hmmm sounds like a baiting question to me but I'll bite sort of. I'm not one that goes deep to say I went deep and unless there's some very good reason to do so why do it. So my original comment doesn't really sum up my approach to diving.
Hmmm, your response doesn't answer the questions at all... That's ok, it's really none of my business.
The way is to the destructive element submit yourself,
and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water
make the deep, deep sea keep you up...
Hmmm, your response doesn't answer the questions at all... That's ok, it's really none of my business.
Well in my original post of the dive it lists maximum depth and total dive time. My computer will not list each sampling so other than how much time we spent at the max depth (which was a bounce) I'm not sure how much more info I can offer ???
If you are asking did we do a detailed dive profile before entering the water; no we did not. We hit max depth and climbed the ladder back up. Of course with safety stops along the way according to my computer.
Are you really asking me for want of knowledge or to blast me for something you perceive I did wrong ?
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I know that most regulators are balanced around 110-120psi so I had some room, but at 180 I surfaced. Total bottom time 85 minutes.
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