• The Diver Who Fell from the Sky

  • The Story of Pacific Pioneer Francis Toribiong
  • De: Simon Pridmore
  • Narrado por: Colin Watts
  • Duración: 7 h y 2 m
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 calificaciones)

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De: Simon Pridmore
Narrado por: Colin Watts
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Maverick, innovator, entrepreneur, environmentalist, and sheer force of nature, Francis Toribiong would have been a unique and significant individual no matter where in the world he was born. As it turned out, he was born in the island nation of Palau in the Western Pacific at just the right time to apply his special set of skills and attributes to the task of helping his country find its place in the world.

He arguably did more than anyone to build Palau’s economy and help it develop into an independent, forward-looking nation.

And, improbably, he achieved all this via the sport of scuba diving.

Francis Toribiong is a Pacific Islander like no other. He is the father of Palau tourism, a scuba diving pioneer, and an effective, tireless ambassador for his country and its abundant marine resources.

For his whole life, he has been a devoted friend to strangers and an implacable opponent to anybody who, through malevolence or negligence, threatens Palau’s considerable natural treasures. He has also been the perfect host to generations of scuba divers from all over the world, who have visited Palau to see those treasures for themselves.

And, as well as all that, he was Palau’s first ever parachutist - known by people throughout the islands as the Palauan who fell from the sky.

They were speaking both literally and figuratively. He was so completely different from all of his contemporaries in terms of his demeanor, his ambitions and his vision, that it was as if he had come from outer space. Palau had never seen anybody quite like him and there was no historical precedent for what Francis Toribiong did. He had no operations manual to consult and no examples to follow.

He wrote his own life.

Francis Toribiong was the first Palauan ever to seek and seize the international narrative. No Palauan, in any context or field, had previously thought to go out into the world and say:

“This is Palau - what we have is wonderful. Come and see!”

This is his astonishing story.

©2020 Simon Pridmore (P)2021 Simon Pridmore

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Interesting title as well as story

Interesting title as well as story about a Pioneer in Palau. Narration is done well and the story is very interesting.
Francis Toribiong gets credit for his pioneering work in Palau.
The challenges he faced amazes me. The things he did to bring diving to Palau are truly remarkable.

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