On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 Bjorn Vang Jensen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Viv wrote:
>> Does it have to be a liveaboard?  One landbased island I would love\
>> to dive off in Malaysia is Pulau Redang. You can jungle trek, boat &
>> canoe to break the boredom :-) There is even an 18-hole golf course
>> at Berjaya's hotels.
>
>While Redang certainly has better visibility and more potential for pelagic
>encounters than Perhentian next door, it can't hold a candle to Anilao or
>Puerto Galera for lions and nudis. In 10 dives there, at 5 different sites,
>I didn't see a single lion, and I saw maybe a total of 5 nudis.

Well we will have to have a miniNEDfest there to check that out wont we :-))

>> It is a marine park & has a couple of shipwrecks worth checking out - The
>> HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, sunk there at the start of WWII.
>
>Now THAT would get me to go back. I can't believe I didn't know that! For
>some reason, I had both ships much closer to Singapore in my mind.

Here is a link to a dive expedition report about those wrecks.
http://www.scapaflow.com/reppow.html
I think they were on the MV Karin for this trip. May be wrong.

I do recall that there was quite a bit of talk in the UK end of last year
about protection of these wrecks as some parts have already been salvaged
without permission. Not by John & his group though ... they were the ones
that have provided details to the survivors on the wrecks condition, etc. I
think a couple of props have been taken which means commercial pilfering.
Viv