bshort4
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I was in the Philippines visiting friends for a month so we (me) decided to fly to Bali for a week of diving (just me) and some touring and relaxation. Rented a nice small villa in Candidasa for seven nights but decided to stay the first night at Liberty Dive resort before going to the villa so I could do some dives on the Liberty ship wreck. Our flight left Manila at 3:45 am and arrived in Bali at 7:50 am and we went straight to Tulamben (three and a half hours). I had a night dive on the Liberty scheduled that night. We opted for two of the regular hotel rooms instead of the stand alone rooms and they were fine--in fact better than fine. Nice rooms, good a/c, comfortable beds and a mini bar and nice balcony. Went to the dive shop after checking in and they came to my room and took all my kit to the shop. We would meet at 6 pm for the night dive and would be diving nitrox which was free if you had the cert which I did. Let me say I'm not a big fan of shore diving in the best of conditions--being a old fart I find giant strides and back role entries to be my thing. Doing the entry to the Liberty was a bit brutal for me---I just knew that any second I was going to take a header into the shallow water and split my head or break my ankle. So on exit my guide Mega had me remove my gear and he took it to the shore which made it a bit easier--this was repeated for entries and exits on my remaining dives--thank you Mega!
Once we were in the water and swimming toward the wreck I turned on my SeaLife Dragon 2500 camera light to test it then turned it off. I used my smaller light to get to the wreck and then turned my camera light back on and nothing---wouldn't work. so ended up using my back-up light for the remainder of the dive. The vis was good at about 50 feet and the water temp was about 79 degrees--I was in a 3mm shorty which was fine. Tried taking some pics with my back-up light with mixed results. Nice dive besides the problems and a few bumper heads joined us in our dive--nice.
Once we were in the water and swimming toward the wreck I turned on my SeaLife Dragon 2500 camera light to test it then turned it off. I used my smaller light to get to the wreck and then turned my camera light back on and nothing---wouldn't work. so ended up using my back-up light for the remainder of the dive. The vis was good at about 50 feet and the water temp was about 79 degrees--I was in a 3mm shorty which was fine. Tried taking some pics with my back-up light with mixed results. Nice dive besides the problems and a few bumper heads joined us in our dive--nice.