This is a last minute trip, just heard from my fren that Tioman is having a sanking ship event, for artificial reef.. hmm~ sound interesting to me.. so I GO~
Drive in to Tioman on Tuesday, event day Wednesday, and back on Thursday.. kind of rush, but memorable….
This is the first time which I tried Nitrox air…. Hmmm~ I don’t really feel much different in the air, but its good that I have more bottom time at deeper depth…
Date: 28 March 2012
Event start with VIP speech, then follow by sanking of the Ship.
Ship: KM Sipadan (renamed from Sri Sarawak) is a retired navy ship, serving the navy for 48 years.
White top, with a little black bottom, quite a nice and big ship, to be the new home for many fish and coral.
The ship has been sank near Sawadee, off Tioman Marine Park.
As in their speech, this is the first time, they do the ship sanking, not much experience.
This time, They use water to sank the boat.
All went on well, after the water get into the ship, it started to sank, and very fast, its gone from the surface.
Right after the boat disappeared, we all dive in…… The Ship sank into 30meter bottom of the sea. Bow crash into the sand, and got up a big pile of sand on the bow area.
Becos of that, the stern of the boat has been leaved up around 2 meter from the bottom, hanging there in the mid water. I hope after awhile, the sand moved, the stern will lay down flat
So that the boat wont break so easily. Or maybe some local diver make some efford to help to remove the sand? :-p
The visibility is bad as expected, but we got the first hand view of KM Sipadan. Very special dive.. as many batfish come and visit their new home…
We have dive in, check out the boat for about 50 minutes, that about it..
Hope this work well to be a new home for fishes & corals. The result, might need to wait minimum 10 years gua..:-p
