Diving Photos – Lombok 4oo5
December 18, 2013
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Diving Photos – Lombok 3oo5
December 11, 2013
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Diving Photos – Lombok 2oo5
December 4, 2013
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Diving Photos – Lombok 1oo5
November 27, 2013
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Diving Photos – Maratua
July 17, 2013If you wanna go diving, I have been to Maratua Paradise Resort. Some of my dive photos can be seen here, and here. Just for a change, I’m using my Flickr account.
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Random Photos – Diving
January 3, 2013Some photos taken during my recent dive trip to Krabi and Phi Phi. Photos can also be seen here. Donate money so I can get better equipment. My dive computer is suicidal at the moment, rebooting itself during a dive.
Dive Trip 2012-12 Krabi Phi Phi Ao Nang
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Random Photos – Diving
November 19, 2012Some photos taken at the dive boat jetty in Sanur, Bali. Go, Samsung S3.
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Reason for Haitus
October 25, 2012I took a couple of weeks off contributing to the blog in September. Here’s the reason:
More photos available here.
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An Oil Rig’s Second, Scuba-Diving Life
September 19, 2010An interesting combination of a hobby and work. Read about Seaventures.
From the Wall Street Journal, dateline 2010-09-18:
A onetime oil-drilling rig stands in crystal-clear waters dotted with tiny islands and their lush green hills. But most impressive is what’s underwater—an amazing array of coral reefs swarming with hundreds of species of multicolored tropical fish, sea turtles and other aquatic life. The rig has been converted to a hotel for snorkelers and especially for scuba divers.
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“So far as we know, we’re the only ones in the world using an oil rig as a hotel and diving platform,” said Suzette Harris, the Singaporean owner. Her father-in-law, a regional Malaysian official, bought the rig in Singapore in 1988 (there, she said, “you can buy a used drilling platform just like you can buy a used boat.”). He had it towed into Borneo waters.
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BP to Sell Malaysian Assets to PETRONAS
September 4, 2010And the Deepwater Horizon event spills over into Malaysia (pun intended).
Taken from the New York Times, dateline 2010-09-01:
BP said Wednesday that it would sell some of its Malaysian assets to Petronas, the country’s oil consortium, in a deal worth up to $411 million, as it begins to divest itself of businesses to recoup the costs of the Gulf oil spill.
The British oil giant said it was selling its stakes in Ethylene Malaysia and Polyethylene Malaysia, both already operated and part-owned by PETRONAS, which BP called their “natural owner.”
The deal with Petronas includes a $363 million cash payment, a $15 million balance sheet adjustment, the repayment of a $53 million shareholder loan, and potentially a special dividend of $48 million from Ethylene Malaysia.
The sale does not, however, signal that the company is departing from Asia.
I look forward to the day BP wins deep water acreage in Malaysia, then we know that all has been forgiven, lessons learnt loss, and that money speaks louder than pelagics (I’m a diver, so sue me).
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 