In the fall of 2013 I left home for a 4th winter, this time to complete a scuba diving dive master program with Wicked Diving in Thailand. My intention was to become a safer scuba diver, in order to become better at underwater filming. During this program I was trained on 5 live aboard trips to the Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock. After completing it, I obtained a one month Visa in Bangkok to travel to Burma (Myanmar), where I filmed Burmese dance and marionette shows, and the peacock dance in the Shan States new Hsipaw. After that I made my way back to Thailand, and on to Laos via a two day journey down the Mekong River, arriving in Luang Prabang, a Unesco protected city, and home of the Tak Bat, where the monks are offered alms in a daily ritual at dawn. From Luang Prabang you can also visit the Elephant Village Sanctuary, where elephants that worked in the logging industry are well cared for and thriving. From there I flew to Malaysia, Borneo, to dive at Sipadan, and then on from there to Indonesia, to Ubud, Bali, to film the Kecak monkey dances, film the monkeys in the Sacred Monkey Forest, and learn some batik techniques. From Bali I traveled to West Papua New Guinea, to Sorong, the gateway Raja Ampat, where you can find some of the best scuba diving in the world. Called the “Wild West of diving” because of it’s remote location, the name Raja Ampat means “Four Kings”, after the four large islands in the region. Divers there boast regular sightings of Manta Rays, the Tassled Wobeggone Shark, Pygmy Seahorses, Ghost Pipefish, incredible arrays of soft corals, schools of Giant Trevally and tornado shaped formations of Barracuda, as well as many more incredible sights.