For any readers that like to run marathons, put October 12th in your diary and get training. The first Borneo International Marathon will be run in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia - a perfect excuse to get over to beautiful Sabah, my stomping ground for 10 years before I returned to the UK. Take a look [...]
Some of the guys from Worcester College that came over from for the wedding. Martin and baby Edith, Piers, Jenny, Vinny and Lizzy with baby George. Really fantastic to see them all again, been far too long in some cases. And nobody ever changes!
Been busy as ever - shot some photos on Monday during a shoot that Jason Isley, Roger Munns, Terence Lim and Jonni Isaacs were involved in, filming for a video installation by Singaporean artist Matthew Ngui. Matthew wanted to project continuous video of him swimming back and forth across 4 projectors ie as if [...]
Before the new range of Intel Macbook Pro’s came out, there was much talk about how Apple was going to deal with the heat generated by the powerful chips planned for the new laptops - liquid-cooling was always mooted as one possibility.
Well, here at Scubazoo we can finally reveal that we’ve been in beta testing [...]
Sabah’s marine police have been doing a good job and yesterday caught another boat, illegally fishing in Sabah’s waters, with a huge catch of turtles. 220 dead green and hawksbill turtles were onboard, whilst another 20 were still alive in the hold. I went down to the jetty as they were unloading - have a [...]
On Thursday night a whale, thought to be a fin or pygmy sperm whale, became stranded on one of the shallow reefs off Gaya Island, facing towards Kota Kinabalu. By the morning, Sabah Parks staff, Marine Police and Beach Bums staff were trying to control the circus of people that had come to see the [...]
Scubazoo just been sponsored by Dive Rite, Pinnacle and Seven Tenths, all fantastic companies that now supply us with wetsuits, regs, BCD’s, fins, masks and t-shirts etc etc. In return, we supply them with images taken during our filming and photography trips, as well as group shots of the Scubazoo crew in action. [...]
I’ve just returned from a few days on Pulau Tiga - one of my favourite islands just south of KK. Its a really peaceful place with beautiful jungle, mud volcanoes, lots of snakes and amazing monitor lizards that go swimming on a regular basis. I made the trip with Simon Enderby, Simon Christopher and Jason [...]
I’ve just put up images from the Lepa Lepa festival in Semporna, held over the last weekend. Its been running for the last few years, but only recently has it grown to be quite popular - there were around 15,000 people this weekend, but surprisingly few tourists..
This below is from Sabah Tourism:
The Bajau community on [...]
