Now another group of big thinkers is making deep sea diving that much easier for today's modern traveller. Located in the heart of Malaysian Borneo's Coral triangle you'll find Seaventure Dive Resort, offering unique diving holidays off a disused oil rig. 

They use one of the rig's lifting platforms like an elevator, meaning all you have to do is step on with your kitted-up mates and slowly be lowered into bath tub warm waters where you'll spy coral walls, inquisitive leatherback turtles and silvery barracuda during leisurely days of diving.

By night, take the boat over to nearby Mabul Island for BBQ fresh fish and to knock back a few frosties with friendly sea gypsies.

Who said the oil industry was evil?