Divesites Sipadan Island
The triangle between Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines is one of the most bio-diverse marine habitats in the world. This is also known as the ‘Coral Triangle’. Strong ocean currents, deep sea trenches and sea mounts, combined with active volcanic islands have created a complex oceanographic environment that is like a paradise for divers.
Dive sites Sipadan Island (Malaysia)
This is were the world-famous Sipadan Island is located, home to thousands of turtles, schooling sharks, swirling barracuda, and awe-inspiring coral walls dropping more than 600m straight down to the sea floor.
Sipadan is frequently voted as the worlds number 1 dive destination. The Sipadan Barrier Reef is the largest Barrier Reef in S.E ASIA and also has the Worlds highest marine biodiversity!.
Diversity is the beauty of this amazing reef: It offers wall dives with vertical drops to over 600m, Cleaning stations that attract Manta Rays, Devil Rays and all kinds of sharks! 1000’s of schooling fish and hidden away in the coral shallows are some of the world’s best macro life such as Pygmy Seahorses, and other marine life that is still to be identified.
This is truly one of the last unexplored frontiers on Planet Earth and it was a real privilege to dive here !!
We made 20 dives on Sipadan Island in 4 days.
The ‘must see’ sites are: Barracuda Point, South Point and the Drop-Off.
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