Maris Rock and Crossing, Puerto Princesa

Finally new dives after 10 and half months break. I came to Palawan four days ago so it was time to go diving. Today I had a two dives in Puerto Princesa area.

Dive #: 218
Date: 13.3.2012
Place: Philippines, Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Maris Rock
Depth: 23,7m Average: 14,3m
Dive time: 57min
Visibility: 7-10m
Sea Temperature: +30C

Equipment
Bottle: 12L/200bar (air) Wetsuit: No wetsuit, shorts + t-shirt Weight: 5Kg

Dive Center: Moana Dive Center
Price: 3300PHP/55€ (2 dives)

Here is something what we saw today. Small moray eel.
Jawfish with eggs in the mouth.
Big yellow frogfish.
Huge fan coral.
Nudibranch.

Dive #: 219
Date: 13.3.2012
Place: Philippines, Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Crossing
Depth: 20,1m Average 16,1m
Dive time: 43min
Visibility: 25-30m
Sea Temperature: +30C

Equipment
Bottle: 12L/200bar (air) Wetsuit: No wetsuit, shorts + t-shirt Weight: 6Kg

Time to descend.
Leopard moray eel ready to attack.
Reef fishes.
Nudibranch.
It was great to dive after long break. In the first place, Maris Rock, visibility was today quite bad. Maybe 7-10m. It's interesting place to dive anyway. You can see always some fishes which are not so common. In Crossing visibility was very good. There was lots of different reef fishes. Especially red tooth triggerfishes.

This was also my first diving day when I used my "new" Suunto Stinger dive computer. It worked perfectly. I had also my old Suunto Mosquito in my other hand, but it doesn't work anymore. It can reboot itself during the dive and in the boot it change the date, time, lose the data from ongoing dive etc. So bye bye Mosquito and welcome Stinger.

Puerto Princesa,
Mika