Diving 2024 resources
Further documents: Calls – Uncovering Inner Worlds – Cooperation proposal
Context
Inspiration
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Journey
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Schedule
Material set up – January 22 to March 13
- Equipment updated for full cave training → List
- First contacts with Nixie
Preparation – March 14 to June 12
Training
- Initial team alignement
- Course confirmed
- Regular gatherings for team alignment (aims, experience, material, dives aboarded and accidents, etc.)
Logistics
- Funding
- Medical assessment
- Flights booked
- Visa approved
- Hosting booked
Practice
- Physical exercice
- Training to Dive Leader (10 theory sessions, 15-20 dives)
- Fun dives (15-20 dives)
Equipment
- Setup fine tuned
- Travel tests
Drysuit test – June 19
- Fun dive
Travel – June 20 to 22
- Europe to Kuala Lumpur (KUL) or Singapore (SIN)
- one-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
- Scientific exchange – water and health
- Festival
Resources on diving
Robin Cuesta
- Blog: A day to day diary into a cave diving course (annotated)
- Interview 2020: ADEX – Rewind: Spotlight on Cave Plastic Pollution: Dialogue Exchange
- 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
- Article 2023: Sulawesi - Robin Cuesta, de la plongée-spéléo aux sciences de l’environnement. Le petit journal 2023.
- 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 sources
- Neal Pollock. Thoughtful management of decompression stress. BSAC 2016.
- GUE TV
- DAN Southern Africa
Publications on Indonesia
Indonesian culture
- La Ode Jumaidin, La Niampe, Dasmin Sidu, Zulfia Larisu. Reconstruction of Urban Community Identity in Social Environment and Discourse of Power in Public Space: Overview of post-sultanate Buton Culture in Baubau City. Journal of Namibian Studies 2023; 34.
Management of natural resources
- Hall Derek, Li Tania, Hirsch Philip. Powers of exclusion : land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. University of Hawaii Press 2011.
- Haller Tobias, Acciaioli Greg, Rist Stephan. Constitutionality: Conditions for Crafting Local Ownership of Institution-Building Processes. Society & Natural Resources 2016; 29(1).
- Li Tania. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park. Cornell University Press 2008.
- Li Tania. Commons, co-ops, and corporations: assembling Indonesia’s twenty-first century land reform. The Journal of Peasant Studies 2021; 48(3).
- Maimunah Siti. Reclaiming Tubuh-Tanah Air: A Life Project on Doing Feminist Political Ecology at the Capitalist Frontier [thesis]. Universität Passau 2023.
- Yonariza. Implementation of Irrigation Management Reform Policy under External Support: Sustainability Question. A Preliminary Observation in West Sumatra, Indonesia. RCSD Conference 2003.
- Yuwono Pujoo Semedi Harg. Close to the stone, far from the throne : the story of a Javanese fishing community, 1820s-1990s [thesis]. Universiteit van Amsterdam 2001.
Coral Triangle
- Coral Triangle Initiative. What is the Coral Triangle Atlas. 2024.
- 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).
- Silcock Don. The Indonesian Throughflow. indopacificimages 2024.
- World Economic Forum. The 'Coral Triangle' is the largest of its kind, and it's dying. 2018.
Water pollution
- Lotulung Garry. Indonesia is drowning in plastic. But with action comes hope. Fair Planet 2023.
- Maimunah Siti, Agustiorini Sarah. From the commons to extractivism and back: The story of Mahakam River in Indonesia. Global Water Forum 2020.
- UN Environment Prgramme. National Plastic Waste Reduction Strategic Actions for Indonesia. 2020.
Traditional art
- Brumm Adam et al. Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi. Science Advances 2021; 7.
- Hitchcock Don. Cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are at least 40 thousand years old. Don's Maps 2024.
- UNESCO. Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy. 2012.
- UNESCO. Pinisi, art of boatbuilding in South Sulawesi. 2017.
- Viviani Franco. Finding and Losing the World’s Oldest Art in Sulawesi. Sapiens 2021.
Inner transformation
- 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.
- 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).
Other resources
Videos
- University of Toronto Land's End: Tania Murray Li's Book Site
- London School of Economics. Tania Li: Transforming rural Southeast Asia.
Communities
Maps
- Pacific Ocean Maps
- Map of Indonesian throughflow pathways from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean
- Peta Sulawesi Tenggara
Vocabulary
- nature lovers: pencinta alam
- living with giants: hidup bersama raksasa
- student enthousiasts: mapala mahasiswa shinta lan ?
- three reasons for wellbeing: Tri Hita Karana