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

Maris Rock and Crossing, Puerto Princesa

Today I had two dives in Puerto Princesa in Philippines. First was on Maris Rock and second on Crossing.

Dive #: 208
Date: 20.4.2011
Place: Philippines, Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Maris Rock
Depth: 32m Average depth: 16,7m

Dive time: 56min
Visibility: 15-20m
Sea Temperature: +27C

Equipment
Bottle: 12L/200bar (air) Wetsuit: short 3mm Weight: 5Kg

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

Here is something what we saw there.

Nudibranch.
Cuttle fish.
Jaw fish eggs in the mouth.
Small banded sea snake.
Soft corals.
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Dive #: 209
Date: 20.4.2011
Place: Philippines, Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Crossing
Depth: 20,4m Average depth: 14,9m

Dive time: 49min
Visibility: 25-30m
Sea Temperature: +27C

Equipment
Bottle: 12L/200bar (air) Wetsuit: short 3mm Weight: 5Kg

Moray eel.
Some places were big groups of different fishes.
Group of red tooth trigger fishes.
It seems we had too much time in safety stop. We took few photos and we had fun. First official group photo in the safaty stop. Me, Patrick and DM Dani.
After that was time to take few unofficial...First Mouley.
Here is Patrick.
And then my turn.
Diving is serious business! :)

Putul and Maris Rock, Puerto Princesa

Diving day at Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. First was Putul and second Maris Rock. So same places like last week.

Dive #: 203
Date: 1.4.2011
Place: Philippines, Puerto Princesa, Putul
Depth: 25m Average depth: 17,3m

Dive time: 52min
Visibility: 20m
Sea Temperature: +28C

Equipment
Bottle: 12L/200bar (air) Wetsuit: short 3mm Weight: 5Kg

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

Some places we saw lots of red teeth triggefish.

Also lionfish is very common here.

There was also school of fish, nudibranches, etc.

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Dive #: 204
Date: 1.4.2011
Place: Philippines, Puerto Princesa, Maris Rock
Depth: 24,7m Average depth: 16,4m

Dive time: 52min
Visibility: 10m
Sea Temperature: +28C

Equipment
Bottle: 12L/200bar (air) Wetsuit: short 3mm Weight: 5Kg

Jawfishes were in their hole in sandy bottom. This time they didn't have anymore eggs in their mouths like last week.

Do you know how small bygmi seahorse really is? Just compare it to my thumb.

Big pufferfish.

Different kind of nudibranches are very common in Maris Rock.

I like Maris Rock. There you can see always something interesting.