Sea Divers

Sea Divers Sdn Bhd, founded in 1979, is the first fully dedicated diving establishment in Malaysia. It was and remains the largest dive shop facility in the country, with a combined showroom/training/repair & maintenance space of approximately 7000 ft.2, ranking it by far the well-equipped and complete shop of its kind. Its location on the fringe of Kuala Lumpur's Golden Triangle also makes it easily accessible to both local and foreign dive enthusiasts alike. History Sea Divers started dive training at a time when recreational diving was still at its infancy. Most of the dive destinations then were islands on the east coast of West Malaysia, and these were mostly uninhabited. Facilities were mostly non-existent, and novice divers and trainers alike then have to rough it out in tents and procure fresh water supply from little freshwater streams or wells dug by fishermen or kampung folks for emergency needs. Diving equipment then were also rudimentary and, compared to today's hi-tech versions, seem so archaic. The octopus was as yet unknown/undeveloped, and the buoyancy control devise was just a horse-collar, a far cry from today's integral ones. The regular snorkel was a rigid ensemble with no flush valve, and the mask was universally rubberized, prone to hardening. There was, of course, no such a thing as technical diving and diving with nitrox mix. Fishing boats masqueraded as dive boats, which took hours to reach dive sites.