2024 - 2025 Scuba Diving Holidays, Liveaboards and Learn to Dive Courses to the Maldives, Red Sea, Canary Islands, Far East, Caribbean and the Pacific.
Sipadan (Borneo) Dive Sites - ,
Sipadan - home to large Pelagics
Sipadan is reknowned as the best diving in Malaysia and offers world class sites. The key draws are the schooling Barracuda, funnelling into a tornado like formation, big pelagics, mantas, eagle rays, reef, hammerhead and whale sharks, close up views of mating Hawksbill and Greenback Turtles, and vortex of 1000s of big eyed trevally.
Barracuda Point, Sipadan Island (5-40m/16-131ft)
At the very far northern point of Sipadan Island is the famous diving site of Barracuda Point. This is where thousands of large pelagics come to feed in swirling and circling schools above the coral gardens. Mix with feeding schools of tuna, wrasse, groupers, batfish, parottfish and frogfish,reef sharks and hammerheads for a dive you will never forget. As strong, converging currents meet here this is an advanced divers site which provides a thrilling experience and photo opportunity without par. This is a wall and reef dive.
Mabul Island - macro heaven (5-40m/16-131ft)
Here you will find one of the world's best macro and muck diving locations. See Hawksbill and Greenback turtles, blue ringed octopus, lobsters, garden eel, stonefish, crocodilefish, frogfish, mandarin fish, devil scorpionfish, ghost pipefish, mantis shrimp, snake eels, seahorses and brightly coloured nudibranchs and cuttlefish.
Kapalai Island - photographers heaven (5-20m/26-66ft)
Here the shallow reef allows you to take time to view the amazing cuttlefish, rare invisibile frogfish and all manner of superb and beautifully coloured life that inhabits the sandy bottom. With no current and shallow depths, photographers will marvel at the kaleidescope of colours. See Greenback and Hawksbill turtles, huge giant morays,garden eel, blue-ringed octopus and lobsters.
Si Amil Island - more muck diving
The main diving sites are East Point, Celebes Reef, Maratua Reef, and Jeffery’s Reef. This is also excellent for muck diving and similar to Mabul island. Spot nudibranchs, pygmy seahorses, coral shrimps, sea dragons,frogfish, scorpionfish and unique trunkfish. Reef sharks can be spoted as well as colourful sea fans, hard corals and spectacular wall diving on the east side of the island.