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, Puerto Princesa

Dive #: 207
Date: 17.4.2011
Place: Philippines, Palawan, Puerto Princesa, Maris Rock
Depth: 23,1m Average depth: 14,6m

Dive time: 54min
Visibility: 10-15m
Sea Temperature: +28C

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

Dive Center: Moana Dive Center

Today I did one dive trip to Maris Rock here in Puerto Princesa, Philippines. Some photos from the day.

In the beginging of the dive we saw cuttlefish. This one was quite small.

Jawfish in the hole had an eggs in the mouth again.

This looks like cactus.

DM Dani in the safety stop.

Relax dive and no current. There was also mantis shrimp, clown triggerfish, titan triggerfish, bluetooth triggerfish, big fan corals, etc.

Putul and Maris Rock, Puerto Princesa

Today I had two dives here in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. First was Putul and second Maris Rock.

Dive #: 201
Date: 23.3.2011
Place: Philippines, Puerto Princesa, Putul
Depth: 27m
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)

Immediately when we descended to the bottom we saw a big stonefish. Not so easy to see.

Here are quite many different spieces of nudibranches.

Another.

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Dive #: 202
Date: 23.3.2011
Place: Philippines, Puerto Princesa, Maris Rock
Depth: 24,4m Average depth: 15,8m
Visibility: 10m
Sea Temperature: +28C

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

Visibility was not so good today at Maris Rock, but we saw there few interesting things. Jawfish with eggs in the mouth.

Pygmi seahorse.

Nudibranch.

Leaf scorpionfish.

First I didn't see well what DM Dani is trying to catch on the bottom. It was big horseshoe crab!

Then he put it back to sandy bottom. Strange creature. Living fossil.I have seen horseshoe crab only ones before and it was also here in Puerto Princesa. Now it was first time when I saw it under water.