Onboard Komodo Dancer – Learning Human Behaviour – Day 3 & 4
Dinners were always served in style. Sit down with a glass of wine as the first course is served by Rizal, who tirelessly wait on us. A purpose-built massive wooden table that acts as an emergency exit from the cabins below, had the capacity to fit 16 div ...
Onboard Komodo Dancer – Day 1 & 2 in Bali
It takes an amazing mix of divers with a love of the ocean to traverse across continents to get to Bali and embark on a glorious 10 days of diving. The idea of crossing treacherous seas to dive pristine sites usually out of reach to common folks, MV Omb ...
Arriving in Kunming, Dali & Erhai Village, China in 24hours
As far as my eyes could see out of the little pane on my window seat, we were descending into a mountainous region. Whatever I’ve seen in paintings of old China plastered on the wall of coffeeshops as I was growing up actually reflected what was before me ...
Promise of a New Day
In the last two months of juggling courses & getting some underwater time with the blennies & slugs, I’ve been writing so much, communicating with magazine editors, LoyarBurok’s administrators & the European Underwater Federation secretary, that I for ...
Spearhunting The Real Coral Killers
Coral bleaching is NOT caused by human impact and pollution. It is caused by weather phenomenons. So why has the authorities announced dive site closures to revive the bleached corals? Coral bleaching is the whitening of corals due to the expulsion of al ...
Cajoling Into The Time Tunnel
It’s been quite a few weeks after cajoling myself up to Cameron Highlands to see what I did not get to see at Christmas last year. A successful alarm dodges near the dash. I visited the Time Tunnel, an antiquated pieces museum that depicted the history of ...
