My third dive in Red Sea

It has been quite some time I didn't manage to go for a dive. Of course it was due to weather. The cold season just got over here in Yanbu. However, the last weekend I managed to get into the boat and walla.... only Daniel and I were to dive. Initially I was informed the dive master, Kapt Fauzi would be on the trip with his two other students but somehow he cancelled it. So, it was ended up that only myself and Daniel who flew from Riyadh just to get the taste of diving in Red Sea. We were accompanied by another local, Abdulrahman , but he only went for snorkelling to accompany the boat captain.

Anyway, Daniel and I managed to make 2 dives each lasted about 45 minutes. The first dive was not so great but the second one we got the chance to see a moray eel which as usual was hiding in between the corals. Moray eels swim moving side by side and are excellent hunters on coral reefs. Morays usually hide in the reef with just their heads sticking out. It would have been a real thrill we can watch it swims across the corals. Hmm... may be next time.


Unfortunately, most of the photos that I shot turned out to be hazy due to wrong setting! Poor me ... Anyhow, here are some photos which are not excellent at all.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Zuraili/WeekendDive

Discover Scuba at Al-Wasel 7

This is the spot where my daughters have their first taste of scuba diving. The site was not that great but it was good enough for discover scuba, at least. The site was about 20 minutes by boat from marina RC. Discover Scuba is a first step for those who want to experience how it feels under water. If you do really like it, then you need to enroll for Open Water Scuba Diving Course. Upon successful completion of this course, you will become a licensed diver which will lead you to a new world under.

Moving out from Wasel 7, we went to Wasel 9. This site is much better and we managed to go down to 60 feet. Of course, my daughters didn't join More variety of fishes here as compared to Wasel 7, at least from what I saw. We were almost one hour down there diving through the corals.

For more photos under water, you may want to visit http://picasaweb.google.com/Zuraili/YanboqUnderWaterPt1

Al-Wasel 1

We went to a spot which is located about half an hour boat journey. Amazing!!! It's a coral island in the middle of the Red Sea. Al-Wasel, that's the name where we went. Al-Wasel means a cluster of coral islands, meaning there are many coral islands surrounding the area and there are more than 10 diving spots just in that area.

Of course, these photos are not professionally taken.

We managed to make 2 dives, each dive took about 30 to 40 minutes with a depth down to 40 ft even though the area is about 60 ft deep. I had a problem with equalizing the pressure that I was not able to go further down. Anyway it was fantastic. The visibility was excellent. Unfortunately, the camera that Pok Lah brought has limited memory of 16 MB, so only a handful of photo shots were secured. Since the camera was a cheap one (SR300), the quality was not that excellent. Will buy the good one later, that's for sure.

The rest of the photos are at http://picasaweb.google.com/Zuraili/AlWasel1