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| Awang Halbi bin Haji Mohd Yussof |
The Brunei Shipwreck app was made possible by Total E&P Deep Offshore Borneo BV, Petronas Carigali Brunei Ltd and Murphy Oil Corporation and Brunei National Petroleum Company Sendirian Berhad (PetroleumBRUNEI).
Present at the launch at Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum in Jalan Kota Batu was the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Yang Berhormat Pehin Datu Lailaraja Major General (Rtd) Dato Paduka Seri Haji Awang Halbi bin Haji Mohd Yussof.
The bulk of the 13,261 recovered artefacts were ceramics. Among them were glass bracelets, beads, ivories, stones, bronze and metal objects.
The General Manager of Total E&P Deep Offshore Borneo BV, Yves Grosjean, said, "The Brunei Shipwreck is a very old merchant ship discovered on the seabed of the Brunei continental shelf. It was found when the company was surveying the route of the future Maharaja Lela field gas export pipeline."
He added that the Brunei Shipwreck education pack was initially published in 2000. It was designed to provide lower secondary students an immersive experience and create opportunities for cross disciplinary class activities.
The new edition is accompanied by a Teacher Resource Manual and some digital resources.
Thus the Brunei Shipwreck project can now be enjoyed not just in classrooms, but by anyone anywhere in the world.
It is as much a story about personal histories as it is about the search for treasure. This book and the app indeed celebrate a discovery that attests to Brunei kingdom history of playing a prominent role in Asia for many centuries: a time capsule waiting for half a millennium to share its secrets.
Yves Grosjean said, "Total E&P Deep Offshore Borneo BV together with its partners (currently Petronas Carigali Brunei Ltd and Murphy Oil Corporation) in the Production Sharing Agreement signed with PetroleumBRUNEI, have sponsored several exhibitions of the artefacts in the past and are now sponsoring this re-edition of the published material.
"Through the past and present exhibitions, this book and the digital applications, Total and its partners hope that they have played their role in preserving such an important part of Bruneian history.
"We see this as an integral part of our overall commitment to both preserve the environment we are impacting with our industrial activities and contribute to the human and economic development of the communities who welcome us." [brudirect.com]
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