Dive Log 7 : Tinoto – Typhoon Aftermath
by Leonard Pe on
08.10.2009 |
Featured Tinoto |
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When Typhoon Kiko hit the northern part of the Philippines, Gensan and Sarangani also experienced heavy rains. The Sarangani Bay received a battery of waves that sadly destroyed a lot of corals. Yes, a lot of them literally.
When we entered the water, I was stunned by the destruction these waves caused underneath the surface. A lot of table corals in the area have been uprooted from its base and been turned upside down. The visibility was really crappy, my dive buddy Dennis was just about 10 feet away from me and all I can see are the tip of his fins, the rest were just green murky water. Who can blame mother nature, its just her way of wreaking havoc and rebuilding the earth. We’ll just see a few years from now how this area would recover.
But nevertheless we stayed long enough to finish our air tanks and surprisingly we found more large fishes in schools than the last time we dove here. We’ve also encountered this huge stone fish perching on the edge of the Tinoto Wall.
| Dive No. 7 | August 09, 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Location | (John’s) Tinoto, Maasim, Sarangani Province | ||
| Objective | Check on the destruction on the coral reef | ||
| Dive Buddy | Chris Dearne, Dennis | ||
| Equipment | Complete Set, 3 kg weights | ||
| Lifeforms Found | Stone fish, clam, trumpet fish, fire corals | ||
| DEPTH | TEMPERATURE (celsius) | ||
| Average | 10 m / 30 ft | Water | 22 |
| Maximum | 24 m / 80 ft | Surface | 28 |
| PRESSURE (psi) | VISIBILITY (feet) | ||
| Start | 3000 | < on bottom | 10 |
| Finish | 300 | ^ on bottom | 10 |
| DIVE TIME | TOTAL TIME (hours) | ||
| IN | 9:30am | Hours to Date | 3.7 |
| Out | 10:35am | This Dive | 1.1 |
| At Bottom | 65 mins | Total Hours | 4.8 |
