On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:39:24 +0200, Giovanni Marola wrote:

>Hi all scuba gentlemen (including racists and derogatories ;-)))

You called for an R & D ;-)

>I'm in the process to chose my next scuba-liveaboard in june.
>Howewer, may be for the first time, I have in mind nothing
>Where to go? I was in Red Sea, Sipadan , Sangalaki, Wakatobi,
>Walea, Maldives,  Lankayan, Layang-Layang, Palau, Yap, Papua.

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.

>I'd like to go in an other place and take new pictures for my web
>pages on Lions and clown Fishes and also Nudibranchs.

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.
Accommodation ranges from budget to international standard hotels.
The adjacent islands of Pulau Ekor Tebu, Pulau Ling, Pulau Pinang, Pulau
Bidong, Pulau Lang Tengah and Pulau Lima are also great uw havens.
So between all 'em islands you should find plenty of anemones & lionfish.
Dont know about nudibranchs tho .. but half the time they are there we are
just too busy rushing around to notice the lil blighters.
Viv