| The Provisional Peoples' Democratic
Republic of Diego Garcia a.k.a. PROPEOPDEMREPDG; a.k.a. PPDRDG The Web Site Providing the World With Its Diego Garcia Fix Since August 20, 1998 Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, BIOT, Chagos Archipelago Don't Worry About the World Ending Today... It's Already Tomorrow on Diego Garcia! |
|
This site
is best viewed in 1024 X 768 pixels.
A lot of the pages have lots of pictures, so it helps to have a high-speed internet connection. Want to use something from
this site? See the TERMS OF USE.
Want to add something?
I'm ALWAYS looking for stories and photos!
Please, CONTACT ME!
|
| Now,
on with the website - Here are the QUICKIES: |
|
EXAAAAAAAGGERATIONS... And Some Things That Aren't  Hector, the 28-foot hammerhead, cruises past the Captain's Gig, 1979 |
| Bar
Coasters |
Souveniers for drunks from Diego Garcia's
sleaziest dives. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Beauty
Pagent |
The most beautiful girls and transexual
cross-dressers in the Indian Ocean! |
Created a LONG time
ago... |
| Berberal
Somalia |
Rare photos and stories of that
God-Forsaken dependency of Diego Garcia's Fuels
team. Sure it paid more than DG, but, fer Christ's
Sake, it's freakin' SOMALIA! |
Updated 3 May 2008 |
| Blasting
Crew,
1974 |
Blowing holes in the reef for fun and
profit! |
Created
17
April 2004 |
| Blasting
the
Ship Channel, 1974 |
See unbelievable sights of demolitions,
nude shark fishing, and learning to waterski faster than a
hammerhead |
Updated
30
April 2007 |
| Bob
Hope XMAS Show, 1972 |
Find yourself (or your grandfather) in the
crowd! |
Created
a
LONG time ago... |
| Bob
Hope 1972, Page 2 |
NMCB 62's historical newsletter
documenting the show. |
Created
17
December 2006 |
| Book
Reviews |
Let the Ministry of Cultural Correctness
tell you what to think when scientists, politicians, and
anarchists write books about Diego Garcia! Plus some
book reports on fictional tales of our favorite island. |
Updated 11 February 2012 |
| Bottled
Beer Banned! |
The US Navy bans bottled beer on Diego
Garcia in 1982. Then in 2008, they actually run out
of beer! |
Updated 1 February 2009 |
| The
BRIT CLUB |
Images and strange Royal Navy Rituals. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| But
Seriously Folks... |
The Official Gripe Sheet for Diego
Garcia. It isn't all peaches and cream out there... |
Updated 20 November 2006 |
| C-141s
in Paradise |
When the now-extinct Star Lizard was Queen
of the Skies, now they are only in museums...
Pictures of C-141 Ops on DG and Masirah Island, Oman. |
Updated 12 January 2007 |
| The
Chapel
in the Palms |
Construction of the first Navy House of
Worship in 1971! |
Created 21 February 2011 |
| Coconut
Diplomacy |
Wherein we find sailors employed for
agricultural labor and paid less than migrant farm
workers. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Crab
Whacker |
So the Brits won't let you whack crabs
with your 9 Iron anymore? Well, you can do it here -
the whacky new game where you try to zap 40 crabs in less
than 50 seconds! |
Created 23 November 2007 |
| Cruel
Joke |
Played on unsuspecting Sailors, Marines
and Airmen for decades! |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Dallas
Does Diego |
The Cheerleaders visit in 1982 &
1983. Plus some other photos by Paul Soutar |
Created 16 January 2007 |
| Dear
Abby |
Letters "To Any Sailor" for Christmas
2001. |
Created December 2001 |
| Desktop
Photos |
Nobody has a desktop photo anymore, but
you can relive the glory days of Windows 3.11 and 800
pixel monitors by going here and downloading an old and
grainy picuture... |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Donkey
Gate |
The true story of the construction of the
"Hadrian's Wall" of DG! |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Double Digit Midget Countdown Calendar | For when you got short.
WARNING: NOT suitable for children, religious
leaders, officers, or the emotionally sensitive. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Dress
Code |
The US Navy and US Air
Force outlaw flip flops and tank-tops on DG.
Un-freakin' believable. Plus other tales of
insanity from the brass. |
Updated 14 August
2005 |
| Drugs |
Were they ever really a problem? The
Brits certainly thought so in 1981. A PDF File. |
Created 20 March 2008 |
| Earthquakes |
DG has plenty. This is mostly about
the great 1983 tremblor when the ocean nearly swallowed up
the island. At least it sure seemed like that was
what was happening. |
Updated 30 March 2005 |
| The
EOD Bar |
EOD = Every One Drinks. Or is it
Explosive Ordinance Disposal? Either way, wherever
you find munitions, you'll find EOD, and wherever you find
EOD, you'll find a tavern. Check out DG's own
wartime EOD saloon. |
Created 12 March 2007 |
| Escape
from the I.O. |
Move to Little Arabia, North
Carolina! Honest - I got this information in the
summer of 2001 and thought it was funny at the time.
Now, I'm not so sure what to think of it - you be the
judge, jury and executioner. |
Created August 2001 |
| Fishy
Stories |
I swear, it was thiiiiissssss big!
Do you like to fish? You'd have loved Diego Garcia. |
Udpated 17 February 2009 |
| Flags |
The flags of the PPDRDG (and real ones
too). |
Updated 14 May 2009 |
| Flag
Clothing |
Girls! Girls! Girls! Patriots one
and all!!! |
Created 30 March 2005 |
| Ghosts
of Diego Garcia |
The Ghost of the Point Marianne Cemetery,
among others. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Golfing
DG |
It is more than just a rumor - the is a
golf course in paradise! This page includes 2008's
Pub Golf Championship Round as recounted by a participant |
Updated 1 February 2009 |
| Gorgo
Diecia Tattler |
Wit and sarcasm from the 1989 - 1990
publishing season. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Hector
the Hammerhead |
Yes, this is the famous picture of the
biggest shark in the lagoon, ever. Plus the story of
the photos from the guy who took them! |
Updated 25 March 2008 |
| Hit
Parade |
Lists of the music you loved during your
stay on the Rock. |
Created 4 February 2007 |
| The
Hitch'n Post |
One of those legendary bars that spring up
from nowhere and disappear when the freedom bird
leaves. The Hitch'n Post was disbanded in early
2000. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Home Grown Band - Hector's
Revenge |
"The Band for the New Century on Diego
Garcia" |
Created 26 July 2008 |
| Home Grown Band - Seven
Degrees
South |
The Legendary Band of the BIOT.
Still going strong in 2012. |
Updated 19 October 2006 |
| Home Grown Band - The
1972
SEABEE Band |
Larry Duran and friends create the first
home-grown band on the island. |
Created 9 January 2009 |
| Honchos
of Diego Garcia |
Just who were the people who had their own
staff cars and air-conditioned offices? And before
they arrived, who were the overseers of the
Plantation? Somebody is always in charge, and here's
a list of their names. |
Updated 22 July
2012 |
| Hope
Colt Bares All |
As quickly as the BUFFs and TANKs showed
up for the airshow over Kabul, the USO and DoD sent out
people to entertain the troops. Here's the story of
a beautiful, hilarious dreamweaver. |
Created November 2001 |
| In
Memorandum |
Remembering our comrades
who have passed on and gone ahead to lead the way on the
journey we must all someday take. |
Unfortunately,
Updated on 13 January 2012 |
| Lost
and Found |
Is someone looking for you? Are you
looking for someone? Try this page. Also,
requests from people who are willing to pay CASH MONEY for
you to send them sourveniers, beach sand, license plates,
etc.!!! Also, any REUNION information that I receive
I'll post here. |
Updated 8 October 2009 |
| Lost
Ships of the Indian Ocean |
See photos of various ships condemned to
ride at anchor in Tuna Hunter Lagoon! |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Miss
America's 1974 USO Tour |
The girls bring genuine happiness to the
all-male SEABEE deployments of the time. |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Miss
Diego Garcia, 1990 |
Lisa Lewellyn Severino brings fitness and
order to Dodge! |
Created 17 February 2009 |
| Music
of the PPDRDG! |
Songs and MP3s home-grown on the island
and by our fellow travelers. Download genuine folk
art from fellow Diegoians! |
Updated 18 February 2008 |
| "Official"
History |
Of the Provisional Peoples' Democratic
Republic of Diego Garcia |
Created a LONG time ago... |
| Ownership |
It's all in the details - Who really owns
our favorite atoll? Become a claimant yourself! |
Created 3 August 2009 |
| Patches of Diego Garcia | From the earliest days until the present. |
Updated 21 March 2009 |
| Pirate
Radio?
Was it? Really? |
A very brief look at AFRTS/AFN/NBS
entertaining the troops! AFRTS = Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. AFN = Armed Forces Network. NBS = Naval Broadcasting Service. |
Updated 3 October 2006 |
| Plank
Owners |
Certificates
from ~~~ Well, from DG. Where
Else? If you built something on the island or were
there with the first of some op, you are what they call
a "Plank Owner". |
Updated
29 February 2005 |
| The
Planatation |
Tara in
the Indian Ocean! But where was Scarlet when we
needed her? |
Updated
31 Jan 2009 |
| Pop
Quiz! |
Think you know it
all? This little testie has questions that are
answered somewhere on this website... See just how
good a scholar of DG you are! |
New 23 November
2007 |
| Recipes
of the Republic |
Betty Crocker, watch
out! Citizens and emigrants provide their favorite
food and beverage concoctions for your enjoyment. |
Created a LONG
time ago... |
| RECRUITING
PAGES!!! |
Meet the members of your
Democratic Republic's Government! Sign up for a
Good Government Job for yourself too! |
Updated 19
February 2007 |
| San
Miguel |
The official Beer of the
Founding Fathers of the PPDRDG! Often available
even in the modern era! Also politically incorrect
humor guaranteed to offend someone. |
Updated When
Something Strikes My Fancy... |
| Souveniers |
Collected by
inmates over the years - not for sale. However,
there is a request from someone who wants to buy sand
from DG - you could strike it rich on the beach just
down the stairs from your dorm room! |
Created a LONG
time ago... |
| Stump
the Dummies |
A Test (not a
quiz). What is the real name of our favorite
atoll? Riddles for your consideration.
Alcohol-Related Incident Testing too. |
Updated 18 April
2007 |
| Sunset
Photo Page |
With photos of the best
sunsets in the world. Also, a sunrise or two (for
those of you who slept through them most of the time). |
Created a LONG
time ago... |
| Surfing
Diego Garcia |
Despite being outlawed
since the very beginning, it has been done by several
death-defying, free-thinking scofflaws. |
Updated 18 July
2006 |
| The
Temple of Doom |
Even Fantasy Island has
its dark secrets... |
Created a LONG
time ago... |
| Transition
Assistance |
For those leaving the
Navy, or a Navy-controlled atoll. |
Created a LONG
time ago... |
| The
Tropical Times |
The Official Propaganda
Rag of the Occupying Forces. It used to have all
sorts of cool and pertinent articles and reports.
Now, it's an e-pub that is so sterile it will keep you
dog from having puppies. But before 2007 it was
great. You can go to the latest issues here:
https://www.cnic.navy.mil/DiegoGarcia/NewsAndCurrentInfo/TropicalTimes/index.htm |
Updated 12
September 2007 |
| Tsunami
Tour 2004 |
Why weren't we all
drowned in our beds? Why? |
New 15 August 2005 |
| Warning
Letter |
Your Wild Man is coming
home soon. Be Prepared! Siempre Listo! |
Updated 3 October
2006 |
| What
are you afraid of? |
There are lots and lots
of things to worry about in the PROPEOPDEMREP.
Here's a very short list... |
Updated 21 July
2012 |
| WIKID-LEAKS
- Top Secret! |
Wiki-Leaks has nothing
on your investigative reporter! Learn how the UK
plans to destroy energy in the archipelago! |
New 7 March 2010 |
| The
Yacht Club |
Where the Elite
Meet! Several pages of photos and news, plus
information on how to join this exclusive club! |
Updated 8 January
2011 |
HISTORY |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MAPS,
CHARTS, & DIAGRAMS
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
NATIVES
"However
elegant
and memorable, brevity can never do
justice to all the facts of a complex
situation.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NATURE
STUDY MERIT BADGE
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If
you are really interested in mind boggling
amounts of information about the natural
history and current status of DG and the
Chagos, be sure to read the Chagos
Conservation Trust's biennial
newsletters. Click
here for links to PDFs of the "Chagos
News" from 2000 - the present are
available for download from their website.
Check out
Wonderful Nature Videos
of
DG and the Chagos !
By Jon Slayer, Royal Marine and
DG alumni.
Here are a lot of PDF files you will want to digest: Here's a special pitch for the helping the environment of our favorite island:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PHILATELY
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
POST
CARDS FROM THE EDGE
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
SOUVENIERS
YOU CAN BUY WITHOUT GOING TO DG!
 STUFF
FOR SALE - Find
links to Dan Urish's artwork, Northwest
Embroidery (they make polos and caps for the
Yacht Club and others on the island), the
official BIOT post office (to buy stamps
& stuff), Larry Bowman's site (where you
can buy and sell Indian Ocean books, prints
and maps), and the CafePress stores of the
Diego Garcian Society, Tom Lawson (DG '79),
The Chagos Conservation Trust UK, the CCT
US, and mine as well. BTW, I don't get
paid to plug these site, damn the luck... I
do it because so many people ask where they
can get DG stuff. Oh, did I mention
there's a link to my store too? Did I?
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE'S ESOTERICISMS 
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| WAGING
WAR FROM PARADISE (or Beer, Beaches, and Bombers) 
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
YOUR
WARSTORIES |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Entries are posted by the year the writer arrived, so be sure to check either side of the year you're looking for to find your old buddies, shipmates, and sweethearts!  You
can contribute to a book about DG too!
Maggie Mae Clay is writing it, and was pretty
far along when, poof, her hard drive crashed. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Counter Added On 1 Aug 09: |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diego Garcia, British
Indian Ocean Territo
Want
to
use something from this site? See
the TERMS OF
USE. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Links About Diego
Garcia & the Chagos
(sorry, but I don't review these
on any sort of schedule to see if they're still
there, but if you try one and get the feared 404
code, and you really, really want it corrected,
just drop
me
a line, and I'll do it!)
 If you've never been there, you
probably want to know,
 Besides the wealth of information you'll find on
this site (ahem! back-patting! praise
and adoration!),
OPWPs
(Other Peoples' Web Pages)
Don't forget to check
facebook and those kind of sites for Diego
Garcia groups! Click
here for one of them. THE BELOW WERE LAST ACCESSED ON 28 AUG 2010
VIDEOS: Be sure to search YouTube for the latest and greatest - most of the youngsters out there share DG that way, rather than with old fashioned websites like this... Here
is
the premier video - taken by Jon
Slayer, ex-RM on DG and now a world-class
undersea videographer. RAF
Diego Garcia - 1945! The
Arrival of a Sunderland Flying Boat. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37287159865
- Approach to the island from the cockpit
of an inbound C-5. |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Get a Haircut, and Get a
Real Job!
If you are REALLY serious about joining the People's Revolution on Diego Garcia, the USN has contracted for the Base Operations and Support on the atoll to G4S Parson Pacific. G4S Parsons is the successor to DG21, which held the contract from 1999 - 2012, which is an eternity in contract years! DG21 was the successor of IPAC (BOS Contractor from 1989-1994), BJS International Associates (1994-1999), IPAC (1989-1994), and the granddaddy of DG BOS contractors, FEBROE (1984-1989). G4S Parsons Pacific is a
conglomerate of G4S and a subsidiary
of Parsons
Global. GS4
specializes in services, while
Parsons is basically a construction
company.
G4S handles the hiring and you can go to their Career
Center on line and find out
what (if any) jobs
are available on our favorite island. So, if you play your cards right, G4S Parsons will actually PAY YOU MONEY to spend years on the Provisional Peoples' Republic of DGAR! Remember, if you get out there, and find that they need somebody to run the airport, or wash your cars, or just sit around the Expat Club and tell war stories, and are willing to pay me LOTS of money to do it, let me know! Here's the official DoD contract announcement made at 5 pm ET, August 13, 2012:
G4S Parsons Pacific, L.L.C., Palm Beach Gardens,
Fla., is being awarded a $55,446,631 fixed-price
award-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity
contract for base operations support services at the
Navy Support Facility, Diego Garcia. The work
to be performed provides for general management and
administration services; command and staff
(information technology services, information
technology support and management, telephone
services, telecommunication services, antenna
maintenance); public safety (fire protection and
emergency services); air operations (ground
electronics, airfield facilities, and passenger
terminal and cargo handling); port operations;
supply; morale, welfare and recreation support;
galley; bachelor quarters; facilities support;
utilities (electrical, compressed gases, wastewater,
steam, hot water and demineralized water, and
potable water); base support vehicles and equipment;
and environmental to provide integrated base
operating services in support of its mission in the
British Indian Ocean Territory. The maximum
dollar value, including the base period and four
option years, is $282,181,556 ($194,423,424
fixed-price award-fee, and $87,758,132 estimated
indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity). Work
will be performed in Diego Garcia, and is expected
to be completed by August 2017. Contract funds
in the amount of $19,689,852 are obligated on this
award and will expire at the end of the current
fiscal year and $18,343,769 is subject to the
availability of funds for the next fiscal
year. This contract was competitively procured
via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website,
with six proposals received. The Naval
Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, is the contracting activity
(N62742-12-D-3601.)
There are also several other
contractors for various other
organizations. The USAF has a
couple.
Unfortunately, I think they're afraid of advertising (which is a free public service) on this web site... Chickens... buck buck buck buck-keeb... Don't forget your
opportunity to lounge around on ships in
the Lagoon for 120 days at a stretch...
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You Can't Get There From
Here....Too bad, how sad.
You could TRY by contacting the Administrator of the BIOT, but you won't have any luck... C/O Foreign and Commonwealth Office; London SW1; Tel: 0044 207 270 2890. If you've got your own yacht, you can get close & stop in at one of the atolls NW of DG. Here're the new rules (a/o 2007):
British Indian Ocean Territory Diego Garcia BFPO 485 NOTICE TO ALL MARINERS OF THE NEW PROCEDURES WITHIN THE BIOT As of 1 January 2007 anyone wishing to visit the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) by yacht will need to apply for a permit in advance from the British Indian Ocean Territory Administration (BIOTA) in London. e-mail: mailto:BIOTAdmin@fco.gov.uk The mooring fee will also be increased from USD $ 100 for 3 months to GBP Pound 500 for 1 month, payable in advance. On receipt of a request for a permit (sent by email, Fax or post) a Visit Permit Request form will be sent. Once the completed form and mooring fee (by bank transfer) have been received by the BIOTA office a Permit, Laws & Guidance for Visitors and maps and co-ordinates showing where yachts may be moored will be issued. Please note, that under BIOT law any person who enters the Territory, including its 3 mile wide territorial waters, without a permit is liable to imprisonment for up to 3 Years and/or a fine up to 3000 Pound. Mariners are also reminded that BIOT Customs will be enforcing British India Ocean Territory "The Imports and Exports Control Ordinance 1984" and "The misuse of drugs Ordinance No5 of 1992". The BIOT Drug dog will be deployed on future BIOT Patrols of the area. You are reminded that any breach of these ordinances may result in a fine or imprisonment. D G HowardBritish Representative British Indian Ocean Territory Fax: +44(0)20 7008 1589 Tel: +44(0)20 7008 2961 or 2890 Address: British Indian Ocean Territory Administration King Charles street London SW1A2AH |
| The Yacht Club |
Created a LONG time ago... |
