title = 'Crew Trip - HMS Repulse';
intro = '\'Secret\' crew trip to the HMS Repulse, followed by 3 dives at Tioman. The experience was great. You feel so alone at a depth of 40m with a 240m (794ft) WW2 battlecruiser laid bare below you, even though you have 3 other people with you.
The water was chilly at 35m, and absolutely freezing at 45m even though I had my wetsuit. Maybe it wasn\'t just the water...
Subsequent dives at Tioman were great. Magician Rock and Golden Reef are very healthy dive sites with lots of yellow tails and trevallies on steroids. Everything seemed bigger there, and there were lots of nudibranches.
Thanks Ros for loaning me your camera! Really appreciate it...*grin* ';
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