Tag: Balinghai

Dive Log: 08/20/2024

Dive Site Name: Balinghai

Dive Depth: 17.8

Dive Duration: 51 mn

About The Dive: I guided Emmanuele, a certified diver this morning to Balinghai. Balinghai is a wall dive and often a drift dive. The beginning of the dive is a shallow plateau at 10 metres. Then we reach the wall. The wall go down to 25 metres. We stayed above 18 meters to follow open water diver standard.
Lots of beautiful hard and soft corals to see on this dive as well as sponge barrels. The reef is home of a huge variety of fish like clown fish, trumpet fish, reef grouper, hawksbill and green turtle. We actually saw a young hawksbill turtle that we followed for a few minutes.
Overall, it was a very relaxing gentle drift dive.

Dive Log: 08/18/2024

Dive Site Name: Balinghai

Dive Depth: 11.7

Dive Duration: 44 mn

About The Dive: We had a beautiful dive on Balinghai today. I was guiding 13 years old Charlie and his dad Daniel. They had a few dive with us at the same the mum, Wen was doing the advanced open water course.
Balinghai is usually a wall dive but as Charlie is 12 years old we stayed above 12 metres which is the limit for him. The top of the wall make a wide plateau covered with coral. There is lot of marine life like clown fish, puffer fish, trigger fish and we saw 3 turtles. 2 hawksbill and 1 green turtle.
Over it was a very nice and relaxing dive.