Published on: Sunday, July 04, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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Clement in mountain high Crocker Range with his Tamron camera.
AMONG the diving fraternity, Clement Lee needs no introduction. A Sipadan pioneer, grand dive guru and patriarch who essentially founded Sabah’s diving industry in partnership with Randy Davis and the late Ron Holland in 1983 forming Borneo Divers, fellow divers often just invoke him obliquely as “The Man Himself” – that is, self-surpassing!
I used to have a lot to do with him on oceanic eco environmental matters at the height of the diving boom in the 90s and 2000s.
But after 38 years, diving was retired in 2012, out of the limelight, you wonder where he is.