OFB - One Fathom Bank, Port Klang

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OFB Lighthouse: An aid for navigation and pilot at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, and safe entries to harbors and can also assist in aerial navigation. Because of modern electronic navigational aids, the number of operational lighthouses has declined to less than 1,500 worldwide. Situated 10 nautical miles west of Port Kelang. (Follow 170 when you are out from the west port entrance)

It takes about an hour to reach One Phantom Bank (OFB) with a speedboat and about 4hours with a fishing boat due to the rough sea. There are currently 2 lighthouses standing on this area with a sunken lighthouse house located about 500meter SW of the new lighthouse with a steel pole as the marker. A shipwreck is also located west of the new lighthouse with another steel post above the water level during low tide.

According to diving friend’s information, this area is famous for grouper, snappers and barracuda and they can get pretty huge. Not many anglers come here due the rough sea so there are some really huge fish here. Below the new lighthouse watches out for barracuda about 4-5ft in length and 1-2ft batfish in height. There are also some crabs under the rock (thought it was lobster for a while). The fish you will get here are groupers, snappers and barracuda and if you don't feel pity on the batfish, you can eat hunt them too with a lot of rabbit fish. And if you are the clam hunter, you can go hunt for some clam at the old light house (still standing).



The Old Lighthouse





The New Lighthouse















The boatride to OFB

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GPS coordination for OFB :-

WP,D,one phatom bank||Confidential, 2.889348000, 100.995693000,12/31/1989,00:00:00, 11/11/2007 08:37
WP,D,ofb stone island||Confidential, 2.900556000, 101.178213000,12/31/1989,00:00:00, 11/11/2007 08:37







Some of the fishes found at OFB :-

Tenggiri





Queenfish





Cobia aka Haruan Tasik










Ikan Kunyit





Triple Tail aka Pecah Periuk










Barracuda

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Nite view of OFB

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The Jetty at Tanjung Harapan to OFB



















The boat to OFB which can take up to 10 ppl

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Where is OFB~???


Here~!!!










If the water is rite, this is normal...

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The aircon bedrooms at OFB










The OFB Kitchen















The food we managed to cooked-up

[HappyFeet]

Silly me..when u mentioned, i kept imagining Phantom Bank....

[ighosts]

Kurau King - Wah! Very Shiok!!

The next time you go, I go. Let me know.
I cannot fish but I can help you eat.

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They are undergoing reno work till april next year...

[kobzng]

d**n nice place ....