Pulau Lang Tengah is an island sandwiched between the more popular Redang and Perhentian islands, approximately 20+ km from Merang Jetty, which itself is roughly half an hour’s drive from Kuala Terengganu.
Our trip was organized and led by DM/Instructor/UW Photographer extraordinaire Edvin Eng, who was also the first DM Terence and I dived with back in 2004, a whopping 7 years ago.
and Derek is now a certified diver, by Edvin the man
Edvin is always one of my favorite dive leaders, the dude  is a joker on ground, but serious and attentive underwater. He also has an eye in spotting weird and wonderful creatures underwater, which is good. However, the very same guy also always poison us in underwater photography equipments, which might or might not be a good thing.
the resort at Lang Tengah, with Derek and Terence camwhoring
The main purpose of the trip was actually to get Derek certified as a PADI Open Water diver, for those of you who are interested to get into this hobby, Edvin is as good as any instructor you can get, you can find him at oceanxplorer.com.my
disco colored anemone, true story
We left at around 1 am from KL on Thursday night and arrived at Kuala Terengganu in the morning just in time for a breakfast of roast duck noodle before hopping on the transfer boat at Merang jetty.
We did a shore dive right after lunch, at the same time Derek was getting his exams. The shore dive at Lang Tengah wasn’t anything to shout about, visibility was close to 10 meter, there were corals, giant clams, and the various fishes, including clown fish, of course.
some sort of anemone?
giant clam, good for 100 plates of char kueh teow
We went on a boat dive after tea time, and there were much more to see here. Plenty of coral banded shrimps, red shrimps, moray eel, scorpion fish, and more.
banded coral shrimp
red shrimp among the corals
a pretty small and shy moral eel hiding in its hole
can you spot the fish?
We were dead tired from previous night’s driving and the 2 dives, and everyone headed to bed and pretty much passed out before 10 pm.
For the last three dives on second day, I had the luxury of using the combination of INON UWL 100 and the DOME unit with my S90 (in Ikelite housing and lit by Sea & Sea YS-01).
Since there are already quite a few photos in this post, I’ll delay the second batch on the next post. By the way, Selamat Hari Raya to all my Muslim friends, and to everyone else, Happy Merdeka!
Ooh i see the fishy! it looks kinda funky!
Michelle chin: master of disguise 😀
I wanna go again !!!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…..
Terence: I oso wannnn, but $$$
that red shrimp totally reminds me of Sebastian from Nemo!!! so cute ❗
Tey Cindy: hahaha that’s a lobster, no? Sebastian
Being able to photograph underwater is just another level!
Thanks for sharing the great pictures!
Anonymousmich: haha, thanks thanks, it’s my honor 😀
Uncanny stuff. Guess you’ll be taking your camera(s) underwater more often now.
But I thought moral eels hid in political parties, not holes in the seabed.
Giant Sotong: LOL moral eels wtf.
he’s right ky !! lol is moray eels !!
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fuckin trippy dude! when next drinkin sesh? TDH is waving!
Joe: haha i can’t drink, i’m not from east malaysia remember!
What resort is that? Looks good. Im going to Lang Tengah next month can you please suggest what resort is good (comfortable and cheap) 🙂
deena: I believe the name of the resort is “Redang Lang”