Diving 2024 resources

Further documents: Calls – Uncovering Inner Worlds – Cooperation proposal

Context

Inspirations

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Journey

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Schedule

Material set up – January 22 to March 13

• First contacts with Robin
• Equipment updated for full cave training → List

Preparation – March 14 to June 12

Course

• Initial team alignement
• Course confirmed
• Further team alignment: skills, dives aboarded and accidents, material

Logistics

• Funding
• Medical assessment
• Flights booked
• Visa approved
• Hosting booked

Practice

• Physical exercice
• Training to Dive Leader (10 courses, 15-20 dives, physical preparation)
• Fun dives (15-20 dives)

Equipment

• Equipment fine tuned
• Travel tests

Drysuit test – June 19

• Fun dives

Travel – June 20 to 22

• Europe to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) or Singapore (SIN)
• 1 night stay
• Kuala Lumpur (KUL) to Sultan Hasanuddin Makassar (UPG)                                                     
• Sultan Hasanuddin Makassar (UPG) to Betoambari Airport (BUW)

Training – June 24 to July 15

• Baubau on Buton island
• ? on Muna island

Interlude – July 15 to October 05

• Cave exploration, back to Europe? scientific exchange ?

Expedition – October 06 to November 10

• To be confirmed

Festival – Early 2025

• SNSF scientific exchange on water and health
• Geneva festival

Resources on diving

Robin Cuesta

• Blog: A day to day diary into a cave diving course (annotated)
• Podcast 2021: Sidemount Pros #71 – Robin Cuesta "The Caves of Sulawesi"
• Podcast 2022: The Dive Table #39 – A Conversation with Robin Cuesta of Sulawesi Dive Trek
• Podcast 2023: Everand – Interview with Robin Cuesta. From Off Gassing: A Scuba Podcast
• Interview 2020: ADEX – Rewind: Spotlight on Cave Plastic Pollution: Dialogue Exchange
• Youtube channel
• Website

Books

• Heinerth Jill. Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver. Ecco 2019.
• Kas Stratis, Ratto Matteo. Cave Diving: everything you always wanted to know. 2nd edition. Kas 2023.
• Kas Stratis, Pavia Edoardo, Menduno Michaël. Close calls. Kas 2023.
• Lock Gareth. Under Pressure: Diving Deeper with Human Factors. Human in the System Consulting 2019.
• Heinerth Jill. The Essentials of Cave Diving. 4th edition. Heinerth Productions 2020.
• Cowan Marc, Robson Martin. Between the Devil and the Deep: One Man's Battle to Beat the Bends. Unbound 2021.
• Pridmore Simon. Scuba Confidential: An Insider's Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. 2021.

Other references

• Neal Pollock. Thoughtful management of decompression stress. BSAC 2016.
• GUE TV
• DAN Southern Africa

Resources on Sulawesi and Indonesian commoning

Communities

• Nixie Buteng Expedition
• Serrum art collective Jakarta
• Creative Commons Indonesia

Maps

• Pacific Ocean Maps
• Map of Indonesian throughflow pathways from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean
• Peta Sulawesi Tenggara

Publications

Socio-economic dynamics

• Hall Derek, Li Tania, Hirsch Philip. Powers of exclusion : land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press 2011.
• Li Tania. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park. Cornell University Press 2008.

Theses

• Maimunah Siti. Reclaiming Tubuh-Tanah Air: A Life Project on Doing Feminist Political Ecology at the Capitalist Frontier. Universität Passau 2023.
• Yuwono Pujoo Semedi Harg. Close to the stone, far from the throne : the story of a Javanese fishing community, 1820s-1990s. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2001.

Reports

• UN Environment Prgramme. National Plastic Waste Reduction Strategic Actions for Indonesia. 2020.

Articles

• Brumm Adam et al. Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi. Science Advances 2021; 7.
• Halim Emmanuela, Riswarie Ardhana, Harjatanaya Cindy. Homecoming: Transitional Experiences of Art Therapists in Indonesia. In: International Advances in Art Therapy Research and Practice: The Emerging Picture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2021.
• Li Tania. Commons, co-ops, and corporations: assembling Indonesia’s twenty-first century land reform. The Journal of Peasant Studies 2021; 48(3).
• Millora Chris, Maimunah Siti, Still Enid. Reflecting on the ethics of PhD research in the Global South: reciprocity, reflexivity and situatedness. Acta Academica 2020; 52(1).
• Maimunah Siti, Agustiorini Sarah. From the commons to extractivism and back: The story of Mahakam River in Indonesia. Global Water Forum 2020.
• Parenti Lynne R, Hadiaty Renny K, Lumbantobing Daniel N. Collection of freshwater and coastal fishes from Sulawesi Tenggara, Indonesia. Jurnal Iktiologi Indonesia 2013; 14(1).
• Viviani Franco. Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi. Sapiens 2021.
• Yonariza. Implementation of Irrigation Management Reform Policy under External Support: Sustainability Question. A Preliminary Observation in West Sumatra, Indonesia. RCSD Conference 2003.

Other references

• University of Toronto Land's End: Tania Murray Li's Book Site
• London School of Economics. Tania Li: Transforming rural Southeast Asia.
• Cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are at least 40 thousand years old.

Vocabulary

• nature lovers: pencinta alam
• living with giants: hidup bersama raksasa
• student enthousiasts: mapala mahasiswa shinta lan ?