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EDITOR’S NOTE Chairman Lim Geok Khoon 84 PUBLISHER John Thet | [email protected] EDITORIAL Associate Editors Terence Koh | [email protected] Ian Bongso-Seldrup | [email protected] Editorial Consultant Gao Qiang (China) DESIGN Graphic Designer Justin (Tin Htwe) | [email protected] Wayne Jones “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend” – Bruce Lee The Japanese tea ceremony is a meditative choreography of purposeful, little movements that demonstrate respect through etiquette and grace. The swift, controlled twirls of the wrist whisking the tea brush rhythmically around the inner circumference of the cup, the subtle quarter turn of the cup – these studied movements, which take years to master, parallel the delicate techniques that muck divers and underwater macro photographers have to employ in order to witness the beauty of Nature’s tiniest marine creatures in their hidden habitats. In this issue of Asian Diver, we’ve combed through the different layers that are found in the muck. Whether it’s the plastic trash that has made its way into the oceans from polluted rivers that now provides shelter for critters like octopuses, the artificial tyre reefs humans have created to attract marine wildlife that may be doing more harm than good, or the diminutive marine organisms like the algae shrimp and the “Shaun the Sheep” nudibranch that live on the algae found on the seabed – we’ve pored over the minutiae of the muck and its inhabitants to understand what makes this type of diving so thrilling. Web/IT Dutch Catalon | [email protected] ADVERTISING/MARKETING & ADEX (ASIA DIVE EXPO) Account Managers (Regional) Anne Low | [email protected] Desmond Ho | [email protected] Account Executive Maia Zhou | [email protected] Events & Marketing Manager Ellfrance Phang | [email protected] Events & Marketing Senior Executive Karter Lee | [email protected] Events & Marketing Manager Nora Ismail | [email protected] CIRCULATIONS/PRODUCTION Traffic/Production/Circulation Senior Manager Victor Ow | [email protected] MEDIA CORRESPONDENTS [email protected] Indonesia Cipto Aji Gunawan Japan Keiichi Arantani Russia Andrey Bizyukin North America Matt Weiss Germany Dietmar W. Fuchs So take a break from the blue water and the vibrant colours of the reef, and have your muck stick at the ready. There’s a captivating cast of critters just waiting to be unearthed Associate editor, mpas CONTACT INFORMATION Editorial Submissions | [email protected] Photo Submissions | [email protected] Subscriptions | [email protected] Advertising | [email protected] MEDIA PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION OF SINGAPORE AWARDS 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 ASIA DIVE ACADEMY AWARDS Silent Hero of Marine Conservation 2014 Dive Industry Publisher of the Year 2015 John THET On the cover Seahorses are masters at camouflage, often hiding in plain sight among shallow coral heads. This backlit seahorse was shot in Tulamben on the northeast coast of Bali, Indonesia Image © Tobias Friedrich NEWSSTAND DISTRIBUTION ASIAN Geographic can be found in the following countries. If you have difficulty finding us on newsstands, please contact our distributors: AUSTRALIA Gordon & Gotch Australia Pty Ltd; HONG KONG Times Publishing (HK) Ltd; INDONESIA Java Books; MALAYSIA Pansing Marketing Sdn Bhd; SINGAPORE MPH Distributor (S) Pte Ltd; THAILAND Asia Books Co Ltd 8 WRITE TO US [email protected] Asian Geographic Magazines Pte Ltd 20 Bedok South Road, Singapore 469277 SUBSCRIBE TO ASIAN DIVER For a free subsciption to our quarterly eMag and to access recent issues, go to uw360.asia PPS 1112/08/2012 (022817) ISSN 0218-3064 MCI (P) 184/03/2018 Asian Diver can be found on-board and for your reading pleasure at: