I believe Air Asia now flies to Tawau direct from Kuala Lumpur. This should make traveling to Sipadan cheaper. Check out their web site www.airasia.com for detail.
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Snoopy
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I was there in Mar-April for 6D/5N dives, dived with Borneo Divers who also owned the only chambers in that area.
It was worth the effort of travelling there. The water vis is 40 - 50m !!! So rich are the wall corals, trutles and whitetips, that I am happy just being stationary in the waters to let the fishes pass me. Your bouyancy skills will sharply improve there too. With a 2000m depth, I rather practise hard.
We managed to talk our way out to do the turtle tomb cave dive. A senior instructor took our group (all advance divers), only after day 3, after being observed by the resort director and other senior staff. There are bones of dophines, trutles, and caves formations. (I have never been in one).
You can arrange boat trip to Mabu, Kapalai island for a small fee. I dived of the surrounding of a retired oil rig off Mabu island. Muck diving, vis dropped to 10 - 15 m, but lots of microlife. A real test of my patience and observation skills - graden eels, ribbon moray etc etc....
At night, the night dive off sipadan (a shore dive) offers a lot of interesting stuff too. HUGE bumpheads Zzzz away, while you go up close and pat them....
One can hit up to 4 -5 dives daily, if your dive profile allows. Well, we did about that daily.... "while we are still young and energitic". It is unlimited shore dives.... That means that our DC are on us all the time. Realise how bulky Aladin Pro are....
I dun have the u/w pix to share but here are some party stuff....
....Sipadan Pix
...... I will return
It was worth the effort of travelling there. The water vis is 40 - 50m !!! So rich are the wall corals, trutles and whitetips, that I am happy just being stationary in the waters to let the fishes pass me. Your bouyancy skills will sharply improve there too. With a 2000m depth, I rather practise hard.
We managed to talk our way out to do the turtle tomb cave dive. A senior instructor took our group (all advance divers), only after day 3, after being observed by the resort director and other senior staff. There are bones of dophines, trutles, and caves formations. (I have never been in one).
You can arrange boat trip to Mabu, Kapalai island for a small fee. I dived of the surrounding of a retired oil rig off Mabu island. Muck diving, vis dropped to 10 - 15 m, but lots of microlife. A real test of my patience and observation skills - graden eels, ribbon moray etc etc....
At night, the night dive off sipadan (a shore dive) offers a lot of interesting stuff too. HUGE bumpheads Zzzz away, while you go up close and pat them....
One can hit up to 4 -5 dives daily, if your dive profile allows. Well, we did about that daily.... "while we are still young and energitic". It is unlimited shore dives.... That means that our DC are on us all the time. Realise how bulky Aladin Pro are....I dun have the u/w pix to share but here are some party stuff....
....Sipadan Pix
...... I will return
Folks, I have several friends whom have dived Sipadan and they have extremely good comments on this particular one place - Sipadan Water Viilage Resort. Check you their website and from what I know, a dive center in Singapore - Living Seas does organise trips to that resort.
Snoopy
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U can book direct with the resorts. Easier to make arrangements too esp if U are coming in from out of town or this region.
Here something that I used last year, when planning for my trip.
Sabah
Sabah II Sabah III Sabah IV - I stayed with them last April. The famous drop off point in Sipadan is just right in front of their dive shop Sabah V
Here something that I used last year, when planning for my trip.
Sabah
Sabah II Sabah III Sabah IV - I stayed with them last April. The famous drop off point in Sipadan is just right in front of their dive shop Sabah V
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