Asian Diver and Scuba Diver No. 3/2016 Volume 142 | Page 4

Chairman Lim Geok Khoon EDITOR’S NOTE PUBLISHER John Thet | [email protected] Kerri Bingham & Hergen Spalink/GotMuck.com EDITORIAL Senior Editor Alice Grainger | [email protected] Contributing Editor Ian Bongso-Seldrup | [email protected] Editorial Consultant Gao Qiang (China) Field Editors Dr Rachel Einav (Israel) Wu Li Xin (China) Dharshana Jayawardena (Indian Subcontinent) Tim Ho (Philippines) Shafraz Naeem (Maldives) William Tan (Singapore) DESIGN Graphic Designers Zoey Lim | [email protected] Shellen Teh | [email protected] ADVERTISING/MARKETING & ADEX (ASIA DIVE EXPO) PR & Marketing Manager Cassandra Dragon | [email protected] Events & Marketing Manager Karter Lee | [email protected] Marketing Executive Rachel Ng | [email protected] WHO’S THE STRANGEST OF THEM ALL…? Strangely enough, other than the deepest part of the ocean, those seemingly uninteresting seascapes – the muddy, silty, and rubble-strewn, the mangroves and seagrass beds – are actually home to some of the most interesting, cryptic, and weird critters around. Though the bizarre denizens of the deep are also accessible if you’ve got the guts, and fancy drifting in the open ocean at night, waiting to bump into the crazy life forms making their nightly pilgrimage to the shallows. So yeah, with its tongue-eating parasites, mysterious underwater formations, gender fluidity, and faces that only a mother could love, the sea is most certainly a repository of the strange. Yet, considering that this planet is more ocean than earth, it could well be argued that us “air-breathers” are actually the strangest of them all! CIRCULATIONS/PRODUCTION Traffic & Production Senior Manager Victor Ow | [email protected] Operations/Administration Executive Kaero Teo | [email protected] INTERNS Design Phoebe Tan | [email protected] Marketing Ryan Chua | [email protected] Your editor, mpas MEDIA CORRESPONDENTS MEDIA PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE AWARDS [email protected] Indonesia Cipto Aji Gunawan Japan Keiichi Arantani Russia Andrey Bizyukin North America Matt Weiss Germany Dietmar W. Fuchs Publisher of the Year 2014, 2015 John THET Editor of the Year 2015 Alice GRAINGER Designer of the Year 2015 Zoey LIM Special Interest Media of the Year 2014 ASIAN DIVER On the cover A stragazer, buried in the sand, draws in its prey with a pink lure that imitates a worm or tentacle Image © Alex Che ASIA DIVE ACADEMY AWARDS Silent Hero of Marine Conservation 2014 Dive Industry Publi