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In 2003, I dived on the Amoco Cadiz wreck in Brittany, France. At the time Facebook did not exist... My story had only been published in print, on the back page of the newspaper Ouest-France.

In December, I returned to Indonesia. Not to dive, this time. I was reporting on the 10th anniversary of the December 26, 2004 tsunami.

I won't be at the dive show this weekend. But I had the pleasure to interview the godfather of this 2014 edition, the underwater photographer and naturalist Laurent Ballesta.

The Salon de la plongée 2013 took place from January 11 to 13, Porte de Versailles, Paris. The real pleasure was to meet up with lots of diving friends we'd met on our travels!!!!

Matt Harding is back! Did you enjoy The Man Who Danced Around the World and The Man Who Danced for a Credit Card? You'll love his new video... Matt does the diski dance, the official dance of the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa.

This is it! I've just launched a new blog. It's called Voyages & Voyageurs and it's for my duck's website, Ouest-France.fr. I'll be talking about travel, of course. Always with the aim of helping you discover the world, here and elsewhere...

Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud's new film will be released on Wednesday. I was able to watch Oceans in December, long before the official release. And I've met the film crew.

One hour in the dark to save the planet... That's Earth Hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in several thousand cities and over 60 countries on Saturday evening.

Bangkok, built on a marshy ground, sinks. With rising sea levels due to global warming, the capital of Thailand could be swallowed up under 1.50 meters of water by 2030.

The Indonesian look-alike of Obama is Ilham Anas. He is a photographer in Jakarta and has become a celebrity in Asia.

The election of Barack Obama is the pride of a school in the district of Menteng, Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, where he was in class, child.

After the demonstrations by Buddhist monks against Burma's military dictatorship in September and October 2007, the West is turning its attention back to Burma, in the wake of an appalling natural disaster. In early May 2008, Cyclone Nargis may have claimed more than 60,000 lives.

Information found on Plongeur.com. Read the full description here on Wetpixel. To summarize, a barge loaded with construction materials destroyed a (fortunately limited) portion of the Sipadan reef...