Located of the mainland of Sabah near a town of Semporna is the legendary island of Sipadan. It is known as one of the best diving locations in the region and beyond. Not only do we see coral structures but more amazing are the marine caves, and Palau Sipadan has the largest variety of soft coral anywhere in the world.
It is a place where turtles swim freely in the warm waters of sipadan and scuba divers will find barracudas, lobsters, frog fish, many of the beautiful coral fish and sharks alike.
In total 12 dive sites can be found around the island of Sipadan, all the dive sites consist of wall dives which drop off shear from only 20 feet of the beach front. That will only stop at some 2,800 feet below. These staggering figures and the amazing coral and marine life as made Sipadan one of the top five beach dives in the world.
Below you will find some more details of the amazing Diving:
Temperatures are typically 6 to 30 degrees Celsius so a short wetsuit of three to five millimetres should be adequate and with 20 to 60m visibility will make the prefect dive.
As mentioned there are a total of 12 sites to dive on, ranging from Turtle Cavern where you will see hawksbill and green turtles a plenty, to south point where you will find plenty of sharks up to a shallow dive at lobster lair.
The marine life that can be seen are white and grey tip sharks, green and hawksbill turtles, jacks, barracdas, tigger fish, and mantis shrimp to name just a few.
Sipadan can be dived all year round and this makes it an amazing place.
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