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Here are our thoughts--voyagers’ thought Here not the land, firm land, alone appears, may then by them be said, They sky o’erarches here--we feel the undulating deck beneath our feet We feel the long pulsation--ebb and flow of endless motion; The tones of unseen mystery--the vague and vast suggestions of the briny world--the liquid-flowing syllables, The perfume, the faint creaking of the cordage, the melancholy rhythm, The boundless vista, and the horizon far and dim, are all here, And this is Ocean’s poem. In Cabin’d Ships at Sea, Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman After getting my advanced open water certification in Taiwan in 2011, I always put Sipadan, Sabah, Malaysia on my traveling shortlist. On February 24, 2012, I finally was one of 120 permitted divers of Sipadan on this day. And ... read more

I will be in Sipadan, one of the hottest diving spot around the world, next Saturday. I am so excited in scuba diving there because 0cean is always an intriguing wonderland, the playground and battle field of magnificent corral reefs, colorful tropical fishes, elegant marine mammals and some unexpected and surprising lives. That’s the reason I gazed the aquarium obsessively. Still, I could remember the first time I went to an oceanarium in the south of Taiwan. Various aquatic creatures flied in a gigantic water tank. Rays were always like birds, flatting their fins and hovering above, while other fishes, as a group, flied and glided gently one by one, passing through. I had to raise my head to take a glance of their elegant and magnificent movement behind the thick safety glass. The most entertaining ... read more