Glitch
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Hi guys,
thought I´d do my first post to get rid of the red text above in the browser. I´m fairly new to Scuba diving as probably most of the peeps that post in this section
Completed my AOW just a month and a half ago in Koh Tao, Thailand and all of my dives so far have been on that beautiful little island.
Normallay I live in Sweden= cold and dark 8 months of the year, but currently I have the fortune to have my parents working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rumor has it there is some great diving here and I´m defintely not going to let this opportnity pass. So right now I am sitting at my parents house reading all the interesting stuff on this board and just getting psyched for the upcoming trip.
I´ll probably start with the Perhentian islands and I wanted to know if there are any Malaysian divers on this board as well? As I am travelling alone it would be cool to get to know someon who knows the areas/maybe wants to team as buddies/.etc As it looks right now I will be in Malaysia most of the summer so there will be more trips and since I´ll be coming back here as long as my parents work here it would be nice to get to know some people in this area that pursue the same interests. I tried to look for a buddy section on this board but I couldn´t seem to find it (maybe I am blind?) so I´ll post this here for now as well.
Also another newbie question, when you set out with a local dive company do they normally send a DM with you to guide you around the site or are you on your own? The reason why I am asking this is not that I am not worried about diving on my own with a buddy but rather that I just invested in some Dive gear (mask, snorkel, fins and computer, since I am travelling a bit more I want to have as little luggage as possible) and was thinking about buying a compass as well and one of those little boards (don´t know the name in Eng.) that you use to draw a map of the dive site .etc. Because if they don´t really ahve someone showing you the dive site I figured it would be of great value to have a compass and be able to draw a UW-map of the dive site. Also it´s good for your navigation training which I definitely feel that the AOW and OW courses didn´t put enough emphasis on (at least where I did it).
Sorry for the long post and that I ask so many different questions at once and probably not in the corresponding section.
Greetz
/C
thought I´d do my first post to get rid of the red text above in the browser. I´m fairly new to Scuba diving as probably most of the peeps that post in this section
Completed my AOW just a month and a half ago in Koh Tao, Thailand and all of my dives so far have been on that beautiful little island.
Normallay I live in Sweden= cold and dark 8 months of the year, but currently I have the fortune to have my parents working in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Rumor has it there is some great diving here and I´m defintely not going to let this opportnity pass. So right now I am sitting at my parents house reading all the interesting stuff on this board and just getting psyched for the upcoming trip.
I´ll probably start with the Perhentian islands and I wanted to know if there are any Malaysian divers on this board as well? As I am travelling alone it would be cool to get to know someon who knows the areas/maybe wants to team as buddies/.etc
As it looks right now I will be in Malaysia most of the summer so there will be more trips and since I´ll be coming back here as long as my parents work here it would be nice to get to know some people in this area that pursue the same interests. I tried to look for a buddy section on this board but I couldn´t seem to find it (maybe I am blind?) so I´ll post this here for now as well.Also another newbie question, when you set out with a local dive company do they normally send a DM with you to guide you around the site or are you on your own? The reason why I am asking this is not that I am not worried about diving on my own with a buddy but rather that I just invested in some Dive gear (mask, snorkel, fins and computer, since I am travelling a bit more I want to have as little luggage as possible) and was thinking about buying a compass as well and one of those little boards (don´t know the name in Eng.) that you use to draw a map of the dive site .etc. Because if they don´t really ahve someone showing you the dive site I figured it would be of great value to have a compass and be able to draw a UW-map of the dive site. Also it´s good for your navigation training which I definitely feel that the AOW and OW courses didn´t put enough emphasis on (at least where I did it).
Sorry for the long post and that I ask so many different questions at once and probably not in the corresponding section.
Greetz
/C
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