1. Cuti-cuti Malaysia: Pangkor Island
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David asks…
Pangkor apartment for rent??
I’ve tried search on the internet but mostly it resort or hotels available.
Anyone know any apartment to rent at Pangkor island?
Need to rent about 2 or 3 days or so. Preferable with sea view.
Kaki Cuti Cuti Malaysia answers:
Just becareful.. Don’t rent any cheap n old apartment.. Cuz it is hunted…seriously……
Just type visit malaysia..in yahoo or google.. I’m sure there are alot of links will pop up.. Try the
link below
www.malaysiatravelguide.net/tourist-attraction/perak/index.html – 21k -
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2. Laura asks…
Which Malaysian Island would you recommend?
We are a family with an older teenager. Am familiar with Malaysia, have plenty of family out
there so will be visiting SP, KL, Seramban and Kluang but are also looking for a relaxing
hotel-based destination by the beach for a few nights. Having already been to Penang, was
thinking of islands such as Redang, Langkawi or Pangkor although Penang is not out of the
question as it was a few years ago that visited here. What’s it like now? Thanks!
Kaki Cuti Cuti Malaysia answers:
Pulau Perhentian.
Mark asks…
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3. Why the sea is red in colour?
May I know what is happening to the sea in Pangkor Island? The water is changing become
red in colour yesterday. Does it relate to the weather changing? May it damage the ecosystem
of marine life?
Kaki Cuti Cuti Malaysia answers:
Here in Florida in the Gulf of Mexico we have the same problem and always have it about this
time of year or a little later in the spring.
Its called “Red Tide” – and is caused by a little one or two cell organism in the water that
depletes the oxygen.
And Yes it can be very dangerous to the Fish and other sea animals because the fish become
suffocated and die from the lack of oxygen, and become toxic because of it.
You do not want to eat any of the fish or other animals that has died from this because it could
make you seriously ill!
When this happens usually people will start having running noses and their throats will burn a
little bit by breathing in the air and it causes a lot of respiratory distress and is especially hard on
older people.
Be Ware of it!
Good Luck!
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4. Chris asks…
berapa pulau pangkor ke ipoh?
pulau pangkor is an island off the coast of western part of malaysia and ipoh is the inland town
Kaki Cuti Cuti Malaysia answers:
If you’d ask something, please be in a details, otherwise, no one will help you.
John asks…
can anyone check my english grammar?
1.2Problem Statement
Surface current is one of the important ocean information and the main component of the ocean
circulation. By studying them, it will help scientist to understand their mechanism and
time-variable characters, which useful for exploiting ocean resources, disaster prevention and
mitigation, ship navigation and etc (Zhang, 20007). However, this aspect has not received
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5. enough attention in the region, due to various reasons and constraints. There are two weak
points in ocean current study in Malaysia which encourage this study; limitation of data
collection and data management problem. Besides of that, the ability of multi-mission satellite
altimetry to provide long term sea level and wind data also motivate this study to understand
further the seasonal variation of surface current pattern. It is because, the transitions of
monsoon which can be distinguish based on the changes in the wind flow patterns, strongly
influence the surface current pattern especially at open sea area such as South China Sea.
1.2.1Data collection
Generally, basic observations of ocean current do exist in Malaysia based on in situ
observational such as ship drift, drifting buoy or current metre. But in most cases, observations
just cover limited areas and serve certain specific purpose. It is because direct measurement for
large scale area is difficult and use costly basin scales. In Malaysia, there are two agencies
which are responsible in carrying out the periodic observation on ocean current; Royal Malaysia
Navy Hydrographical Department (RMNHD) and Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD).
However, as military agencies, the observation by RMNHD just most designed for military
purpose and the data from the observations are not freely accessed by civilians. While, MMD
just depends on four stations, Pangkor Island waters, Jetty of UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Mabul
Island Semporna and Perhentian Island, Terengganu to collect the ocean current data. The
observation can only provide point base data and not represent the offshore area because the
stations just installed at coastal area. Thus, this limited information reveals some important
features of the ocean circulation. An alternative to overcome those limitations is by using
space-based technique to provide large-scale surface current and study the ocean circulation.
1.2.2Data management
Malaysia is still facing problems with ocean data management. The ocean database in Malaysia
can be said as not centralised because the data are normally kept separately in the different
institution which carried out the observations. For example, RMNHD and MMD have their own
database system. Other industries like oil and gas have also conducted ocean current
observation and have developed their own database system. Additionally, the data are not
representative for the whole Malaysian seas area and are just designed for their purpose
respectively. Although there is effort by the Malaysian National Oceanography Directorate
(NOD) to develop MyNODC (Malaysia Oceanographic Data Centre), a database for
oceanographic data sharing, but until now the project is still not fully success because of data
limitation and data sharing problem between institution and NOD. This situation make difficult
for scientist to access the data for another scientific research. To overcome this problem, an
oceanographic database based on altimetry technology can be developed as an alternative
database or supporting to MyNODC. From the database system, ocean data can be freely
extracted, analyzed or printout for another scientific purpose.
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6. Kaki Cuti Cuti Malaysia answers:
1.2Problem Statement
Surface currents are one of the most important sources of information about the ocean and the
main component of ocean circulation. By studying them, it will help scientists to understand their
mechanisms and time-variable characteristics, which are useful for ocean resource exploitation,
disaster prevention and mitigation, ship navigation, etc (Zhang, 20007). However, this aspect
has not received enough attention in the region, due to various reasons and constraints. There
are two weak points in ocean current study in Malaysia which discourage this study: limitations
in data collection and data management problems. Besides that, the ability of multi-mission
satellite altimetry to provide long term sea level and wind data also motivate this study to further
understand the seasonal variations of surface current patterns, because the transitions of
monsoons, which can be distinguished based on the changes in the wind flow patterns, strongly
influence the surface current patterns, especially in open sea areas such as the South China
Sea.
1.2.1Data collection
Generally, basic observations of ocean current do exist in Malaysia based on in situ
observations such as ship drift, drifting buoys or current meters. But in most cases, observations
cover only limited areas and serve certain specific purposes. This is because direct
measurements for large scale areas are difficult and use costly basin scales. In Malaysia, there
are two agencies which are responsible for carrying out periodic observations of ocean currents:
The Royal Malaysian Navy Hydrographical Department (RMNHD) and the Malaysian
Meteorological Department (MMD). However, as military agencies, the observations by RMNHD
are most designed only for military purposes and the data from the observations are not freely
accessible by civilians. Meanwhile, the MMD depends on just four stations, Pangkor Island
waters, Jetty of UMS, Kota Kinabalu, Mabul Island Semporna and Perhentian Island,
Terengganu to collect ocean current data. The observations can only provide point base data
and do not represent offshore areas because the stations are installed only in coastal areas.
Despite this, this limited information reveals some important features of the ocean circulation.
An alternative plan to overcome those limitations is to use space-based techniques to provide
large-scale surface current data to study the ocean circulation.
1.2.2Data management
Malaysia is still facing problems with ocean data management. The ocean database in Malaysia
can be characterised as not centralised because the data are normally kept separately in the
different institutions which carried out the observations. For example, the RMNHD and the MMD
have their own database systems. Other industries like oil and gas have also conducted ocean
current observations and have developed their own database systems. Additionally, the data
are not representative of the whole Malaysian seas area and are just designed for their
respective purposes. Although there are efforts by the Malaysian National Oceanography
Directorate (NOD) to develop MyNODC (Malaysia Oceanographic Data Centre), a database for
oceanographic data sharing, until now the project is still not yet fully successful because of data
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7. limitations and data sharing problems between the individual institutions and the NOD. This
situation makes it difficult for scientists to access the data for other scientific research. To
overcome this problem, an oceanographic database based on altimetry technology can be
developed as an alternative database, or supplemental to MyNODC. From this database
system, ocean data could be freely extracted, analyzed or printed out for other scientific
purposes.
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