Sipadan

Indonesia at this context gives us a particularly interesting example of historical memory.

In reporting about Natuna, one of the articles published by the Jakarta Post actually invoked Indonesia's earlier loss of Sipadan and Ligitan to Malaysia.

And that past territorial loss was used almost as a cautionary tale.

If Indonesia is complacent today, could it lose something again tomorrow, for example? So an encounter around Natuna becomes connected to an older memory of national loss and even humiliation.

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The first cool blue of the Sipadan coral wall gathers around you, and tonight we drift beside it slowly, where reef light falls into deep water.

Settle in and let your breathing find the same unhurried rhythm as the sea.

You are just below the surface now, where the water feels warm against your skin and the island above is only a soft brightness wavering through ripples.

Around the Sipadan coral wall, everything begins with light, with a green-gold shimmer over coral gardens and then a deeper blue opening beneath your feet.

We move gently, not rushing downward, just letting the wall appear beside us, alive with small motions and quiet color.

The sea smells faintly of salt and sun, though down here the scent becomes a memory softened by water.

You can feel the day loosening already, as if the surface has handed you over to something slower.

yeah we obviously needed to be my goodness yeah so from obviously getting that training done were you assigned to different posts of ships to for different um

oh yes we were on a frigate so i was i was a ship's diver and uh we went out to the far east with dived around there that was sort of interesting and at times sort of quite exciting a lot of ships bottom searches mostly looking for things that didn't belong in the bums of ships you know that were explosive or whatever and occasionally we had the opportunity to leisure dives one of one of which funnily enough was this little island off the coast of Borneo a desert island called Sipadan.

It was just amazing.

So, you know, we got to dive Sipadan Island in 1965.

It was, it was lovely.

So that would be a reef and I guess marine life.