Photo assignment for World Sailing & the Malaysian Sailing Association.
Posts tagged archipelago
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Dec 15
Dec 15
45th Youth Sailing World Championships
Langkawi Island, Malaysia 6º19’03″N 99º49'43″E
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Oct 15
Oct 15
ISAF YOUTH WORLDS EMERGING NATIONS PROGRAMME
Langkawi Island, Malaysia 6º18’57″N 99º49'05″E
The Emerging Nations Programme will create opportunities and better prepare young sailors as they build up to the 2015 ISAF Youth Worlds set to be held in Langkawi, Malaysia from 27 December 2015 to 3 January 2016.
ISAF will host regional performance clinics in five continents to provide class specific coaching expertise. Furthermore, training tips, rules sessions and more will be delivered to enable young sailors to become better all-round competitors.
For more information visit the official website of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) http://www.sailing.org/news/39868.php
Photo assignment for the International Sailing Federation (ISAF).
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Jul 09
Jul 09
Japanese Zero
Deboyne Island, louisiade Archipalego, Papua New Guinea 10º43’69″S 152º23’70″E
On May 8, 1942 one A6M2 Zero piloted by PO2c Okura Shigeru from the 14th Shotai from the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku ditched at Deboyne islands. Japanese A6M2 Zero, the main fighter plane of the Imperial Japanese Navy,this Japanese fighter plane, once a master of the air in the South Pacific arena, now lies on the sandy bottom. This is an example of the very last zero model ever manufactured. Virtually intact, divers can sit in the cockpit and pilot themselves back into the past… I did it! 
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Jul 09
Jul 09
Panasia Island
Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea 11º08’10″S 152º20’84″E
PARADISE #9
Panasia is a spectacular island of uplifted coral reef making jagged limestone cliffs in the Louisiade Archipelago.
The Louisiade Archipelago is a string of ten larger volcanic islands frequently fringed by coral reefs, and 90 smaller coral islands located 200 km southeast of New Guinea, stretching over more than 160 km and spread over an ocean area of 26,000 km between the Solomon Sea to the north and the Coral Sea to the south.
Local elderly woman with a stick in a fishermen village at Panasia Island.
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Jul 09
Jul 09
Catch of the day
Louisiade Archipalego, Papua New Guinea 11º08’80″S 152º41’64″E
PARADISE #8
“Pacific Natives may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon Earth, but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans; being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous but the necessary Conveniences so much sought after in Europe, they are happier in not knowing them. They live in a Tranquillity which is not disturbed by the Inequality of Conditions. The Earth and Sea of their own accord furnishes them with all things necessary for life, they covet not Magnificent House, Household-stuff &c, they live in a warm and fine Climate and enjoy a very wholesome Air, so that they have very little need of Clothing and this they seem to be very sensible of, for many of whom we gave Cloth &c to, left it carelessly upon the Sea beach and in the Woods as a thing they had no manner of use for. In short they seem’d to set no Value upon anything of their own for any one article we could offer them; this in my opinion argues that they think themselves provided with all the necessary’s of life and that they have no superfluities.”
James Cook (October 27, 1728 – February 14, 1779) was a British explorer and navigator. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, in which its main shorelines were discovered.
Captain Cook’s Journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark “Endeavour” 1768-71
Nothing’s changed since… 
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Jul 09
Jul 09
Papuan Canoe
Louisiade Archipelago, Papua New Guinea 11º15’56″S 153º12’35″E
PARADISE #7
In Papua New Guinea, a canoe is like a car; it provides transportation and more. Canoes are traditionally decorated with clan symbols and other emblems of power to insure speed and success. A canoe with a beautiful prow has status and power. Childrens on a outrigger canoe in the village of Hessessai Bay at PanaTinai (Panatinane) island in the Louisiade Archipelago in Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea.
