Scuba-diving / Tioman Sept'13 / Project Aware

Weekend spent at my almost-second home, Tioman again for a marine conservation trip. It's the first time I've encountered such horrendous weather. On the night of arrival, the storm was so bad that we all had run for our lives from the jetty to the resort, which is at least 500m btw. But of course, the wet weather plan (sleeping) was still good.

Video/picture credits to Dennis.

  

Sea turtle on the rise (with Darren behind its ass)

The aim of this trip was to clear up the rubbish and debris and also to eliminate crown-of-thorns from the sea, but being the noobies that we are, we only found 2 c.o.t. out of the 18 for the entire trip :'( But 'twas still a new experience trying to spot c.o.t. hidden beneath corals, digging them out into the net and burying them on shore.