Sipadan Diving

Sipadan Diving @ Diverse Borneo

Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising 600 meters from the seabed. It is located in the Celebes Sea east of the major town of Tawau and off the coast of Borneo. It was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands of years to develop.

Sipadan Island is located at the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 3,000 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem. Sipadan has been rated by many dive journals as one of the top dive destinations in the world.

Normally, rare diving scenes are frequently seen in the waters around Sipadan like schools of green and hawksbill turtles nesting and mating, schools of barracuda and big-eye trevally in tornado like formations, pelagic species such as manta rays, eagle rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and Whale Sharks.

A turtle tomb lies at the drop off dive site which is formed by an underwater limestone cave with a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers that contain many skeletal remains of turtles that become lost and drown before finding the surface.

Jacques Cousteau once said "I have seen other places like Sipadan, 45 years ago, but now, no more. Now, we have found again an untouched piece of art"