About

I came to this from the engineering side of the sea, not the policy side. That vantage — structures, data, what actually holds in the water — is the one I keep.

Trajectory

• Ocean Engineering, ITB — where the sea became a system to be read rather than a setting to be described.
• Maritime analyst — learning to read traffic and method, and to distrust any claim that could not be reproduced.
• Graduate study (in progress) — sharpening the lens, and the argument that an open record outlives any one byline.

An outsider looking in has one advantage: no stake in the story staying the way it has always been told.

What I take seriously

The waters the region shares are an ecological, navigational, and infrastructural commons. The undersea is the quietest part of it and the least watched. I write to keep the account, and to build something that can keep it after me.

Read in decades.