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Protecting the marine environment in SE Asia is extremely challenging. Culturaldifferences, years of institutionalized abuse, fishing rights, and areas ofpoverty fed only by subsistence fishing all make for threats to world under thesea.
In this deser…

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So after putting it off for some time all the stars aligned and the opportunity to take advanced diving classes appeared.  I have been diving for 30 years, often in the company of expertly trained divers yet never took anything past the Advan…

     
Since
arriving in Borneo we heard about this amazing dive location, Layang laying.
Upon a bit of research and information given to me by my good friends of SV Infinity,
I set about planning t…

Another lesson learned
After the last year or more of extraordinarily great experiences with crew from findacrew.net I have become very spoiled. Most of the crew have taken to life on Furthur and my, often odd ways, like ducks to water.  This has …

     
All the tons of stuff including the new FCI water maker arrived at the marina unscathed so day’s unpacking met me when I arrived. It was like Christmas opening all the boxes, parts, spares, books and dive gear along …

Muddy Girls are fun Girls

We arrive at Tiga Island in the midst of a common seasonal Soutwester, a two day 20 knot  blow is forecasted and the reality fits the forecast well. The best anchorage is on—of course—the Southwest side of the isl…

I am now on the second of four flights en route to Furthur and warmth, after spending a wonderful month back in Seattle. I hit the best times for boating in the northwest. First came the annual Selene Rendezvous, an event we started twelve years ago wi…

The weather took a turn for the better after opening day and I finally stopped shivering.There is simply no place a beautiful on a clear sunny day than the Puget Sound area with explosively bright blue water reaching up to snow capped mountains; it is …