Sarah Ann Wormald - Diving in southeast Asia: a guide to the best sites in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand

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CONTRIBUTORS

Gerald R. Allen is an American-born Australian ichthyologist who has written over 30 books and 400 scientific articles. He was curator of the Western Australian Museum in Perth from 1974 to 1997 and now works for Conservation International.

Charles Anderson is a British-born marine biologist who has lived and studied marine life in the Maldives since 1983. He now organizes wildlife (whale and dolphin) watching holidays in the Indian Ocean with his wife Susan.

Michael Aw is a Singapore-born marine wildlife and conservation photographer and author based in Sydney. He has won more than 65 international photographic awards.

Gary Bell is one of Australia and the worlds most distinguished underwater and wildlife photographers and the founder of Oceanwide Images Stock Photo Library. He has won a string of international awards and contributed images to major nature publications.

Ashley Boyd is an Australian underwater photographer based in Thailand. He has coauthored a number of publications, including Diving in Thailand (2004). He teaches underwater photography courses.

Clay Bryce a marine biologist who works with the Western Australian Museum, has studied and photographed marine life for 40 years. He has a special interest in nudibranchs.

David Espinosa has worked for some 30 years in the dive industry. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Sport Diver , the official publication of the PADI Diving Society.

Lynn Funkhouser is an internationally published photographer, author, lecturer and environmental activist and a strong promoter of Philippine dive travel.

Jack Jackson is an award-winning British underwater photographer who has written 20 bestsellers, mostly on underwater subjects. He managed a dive operation in the Red Sea for more than 12 years.

Ingo Jezierski is a Singapore-based travel photographer. He contributed to the photo-editing of this book.

Burt Jones and Maurine Shimlock are a Texas-based underwater photographic team who have worked extensively in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. They run the photo agency Secret Sea Visions.

Heneage Mitchell is a British writer, editor and entrepreneur and the publisher of Asias first English language scuba diving magazines, The Philippine Diver, Thai Diver and ScubGlobe Asia Pacific .

Kal Muller is a photographer and writer who for the last four decades has specialized in exploring, photographing and writing about Indonesia. Dubbed the dean of Indonesian travel writers, he is the author of at least a dozen books, including the Periplus guides to the eastern Indonesian provinces.

Fiona Nichols is a freelance editor, writer, and photographer who was based in Southeast Asia for a decade, regularly diving these waters. Her published works include travel guides, photo features for travel magazines and contributions to several guidebooks.

Mike Severns is a Hawaii-based photographer. For the last 30 years he has run Mike Severns Diving, which specializes in taking out small groups of certified scuba divers for educational, personalized diving in Maui. He is the co-author, with biologist Pauline Fiene-Severns, of the acclaimed Sulawesi Seas: Indonesias Magnificent Underwater Realm (1994).

Michael Stachels is an editor and writer, formerly based in Singapore.

Roger Steene is an Australia-based pioneering underwater photographer. His 13th publication on marine environments, the 3-volume Colours of the Reef (2014), contains nearly 7,000 of his finest photographs taken during his 50-year career.

Shaun Tierney is a Londoner who has spent years traveling the planet and capturing images of the underwater world. He and his wife Beth are the authors of Diving the World , (2nd edn, 2010) and regularly contribute to several international dive magazines.

Takamasa Tonozuka The late Tokyo-born Takamasa Tonozuka was a long-time Bali resident, underwater photographer and dive operator. He is credited with giving the great muck diving site in Gilimanuk BaySecret Bayits name.

Scott Tuason is an underwater photographer who lives and works in the Philippines. He has co-authored two books, Philippines Coral Reefs in Water Color and Anilao , and is a founding member of the environmental group Concerned Divers for the Philippines.

John Williams is a California-born writer and PADI dive instructor who spent four years diving in the Caribbean and the Pacific before settling on Phuket in 1987. He runs Siam Dive n Sail on Kata Beach, which offers a broad range of liveaboard diving.

Sarah Ann Wormald is a Yorkshire-born British writer and dive instructor based in Indonesia. She has been diving for two decades and has spent the last eight years exploring the Indonesian Archipelago. She is the author of the Tuttle Publishings Diving in Indonesia (2015) and continues to guide divers around Indonesias many islands.

Robert Yin is a Shanghai-born, California-based photographer who has spent 50 years filming Pacific reef fauna. His work has appeared in numerous books and dive magazines, and he is the author of Beneath Philippine Seas (1997).

Other Authors The publisher would like to acknowledge the following who also contributed articles to the book:

Bob Bowdey , South African PADI master instructor and co-author of Diving and Snorkeling Guide to Vanuatu (1995); Danny Lim , Malaysian writer, journalist and photographer; Bruce Moore , owner of Black Sand Dive Retreat in the Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi; David Pickell , California-based writer, editor, cartographer and diver and co-author of Diving Bali (2010); Annabel Thomas , founder and owner-operator of AquaMarine Diving-Bali; Cody Shwaiko , writer and long-term expatriate resident in Bali; Deborah Fugitt , underwater photographer and writer and organizer of Cityseahorse liveaboard charter trips to Raja Ampat; Louie and Chen Mencias , staunch advocates of environmental education and preservation in the Philippines.

Additional Acknowledgements The authors and editors would like to thank the following for their invaluable assistance:

Ron Holland and Graham and Donna Taylor of Sangalaki Dive Lodge; Dr Hanny and Inneka Batuna of Manado Murex Resort; Anton Saksono of Pulau Putri Resort; Michael Lee , recreation manager of Berjaya Beach Resort; and Henrik Nimb , PADI course director and director of Master Divers, Singapore.

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