{"id":14720,"date":"2010-01-25T11:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/the-australian-signed-on-for-adventure-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:23:00","slug":"the-australian-signed-on-for-adventure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/01\/the-australian-signed-on-for-adventure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Australian: Signed on for adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2010\/01\/14\/1225819\/123915-papua.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/resources3.news.com.au\/images\/2010\/01\/14\/1225819\/123915-papua.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s what lies beneath that enthrals when cruising the islands of Indonesia&#8217;s West Papua province<\/p>\n<p>ALTHOUGH he is in full possession of his faculties and all of his limbs, Mark Erdmann is about to flush a shark from its hidey hole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watch this,&#8221; he says, and his rubber fins arc into the sky as he duck-dives and swims to a ledge about 4m down while I hover on the surface. Erdmann&#8217;s hand disappears into darkness and a mottled, moth-coloured 2m shark darts out and stops on the bottom, about 10m away. It&#8217;s a wobbegong, a carpet shark: not especially fearsome, certainly not aggressive, but a shark all the same.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/travel\/signed-on-for-adventure\/story-e6frg8rf-1225818849614\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s what lies beneath that enthrals when cruising the islands of Indonesia&#8217;s West Papua province ALTHOUGH he is in full possession of his faculties and all of his limbs, Mark Erdmann is about to flush a shark from its hidey hole. &#8220;Watch this,&#8221; he says, and his rubber fins arc into the sky as he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,328],"class_list":["post-14720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-north-star-cruises","tag-true-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}