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Malaysia Beneath the Waves by Michael Patrick Wong
Malaysia Beneath the Waves by Michael Patrick Wong
Mike Wong was a dentist in Hackney ? then he took up diving. Now he spends much of his time travelling to Malaysia to take underwater photographs. What first took him to that part of the world? Well, he was born in Sarawak!
His first trips to Sipadan resulted in the heavy tome Sipadan ? Borneo's Underwater Paradise, a tribute both to his photographic skills and his willingness to risk a lot of money getting it published!
The pay-off was a commission to produce a second coffee-table volume featuring a wider geographical area. Malaysia Beneath the Waves is the result.
Malaysia sits at the heart of what is probably the richest and most diversely populated underwater ecosystem of the Indo-Pacific. Mike Wong's efforts to capture the underwater wildlife on film centred around a journey linking the offshore islands and reefs starting at Langkawi Island in the north-west and finishing at Sipadan in the far east.
The lushly illustrated publication resulting from this voyage includes deservedly well-known diving destinations ? Tioman, Layang Layang, Labuan and Sipadan ? alongside more obscure sites, such as Luconia Shoals' well-named Hempasan Bantin!
Over 300 images grace this 250-page volume. But it is not just a vehicle for Mike Wong's excellent macro photography. He has also used his wide-angle camera to capture the spirit and emotion of diving in a sea burgeoning with life.
Surface pictures too are a visual treat, and the maps and aerial photography of islands and reefs keep the reader well informed.
Be warned: do not show this book to your friends if you are about to go and they are not!
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Malaysia Beneath the Waves by Michael Patrick Wong, Sea & Sea (01803 663012), hardback,£45
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