Whale Sharks in Southern Leyte

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shugar:
it is when you eat beans or cabbage or kamote (sweet potato) during the SI... then the resulting off-gassing will be very dangerous to your dive buddies...

not to mention successive dives after such SI activities will still result in continuous off-gassing causing this --> http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=124119

w/c we already know from our OW classes will give you bouyancy problems and potential self-esteem issues

Jag
:lol3: That link is hilarious. Definitely don't eat kamote during the SI.
 
pakman:
I definitely owe u guys a number of rounds of SM's for the laughs on SB...

BTW, anyone have a link for the cebu-leyte ferry?

I've taken the fast craft ferry from Cebu to Ormoc and back but I took supercat, not Ocean jet. It's around P550 one way (might have gone up due to gas prices). I'm pretty sure Oceanjet is cheaper.

www.supercat.com.ph
 
ishbaby:
I dont get sleepy on an SI . . I get hungry hehe . . is that bad for off gasing too? hehe.
haha . . so this is where my post went!! I was looking for it at the SI thread of Caloy, I thought somebody deleted it! Sorry for the slight off-off topic hihihi.
 
ishbaby:
Chip, I think you've travelled around the Philippines more than I do!
When I first arrived in the PI I did work with the Red Cross teaching lifesaving and swimming. There was only 1 instructor at the time (for the entire Red Cross) and he needed help with the courses. They sent me to a lot of places which gave me some cool experiences. When we taught in Leyte (isabela which is the tip of West Leyte) we made the students complete a mile swim in open water (it's actually 2 miles cause we're A-holes like that :)). I was in the water with them (being a sweeper) and some students about 50 meters away began screaming. I swam over to ask what was wrong and apparently they saw a whale shark. This sounds cool now, but back then I was freaked out! So I made everyone tighten up and I swam in the middle. :)
 
shugar:
dude you survived a 2-mile (3km) swim!?!?! WOW!!! IDOL!!!

Jag
I used to do the 2 km swim regularly in Anilao. The senior instructor I taught with is 60+ yrs old, so I was the one always in the water (so I had no choice :)). But most of the times I had flippers and a rescue can with me.

One time I led the swimmers into a colony of jellyfish - I was lucky to only get stung in the armpit and nipple. oh the stories... :)
 

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