Fun Dive - 3 Dives in Mabul & Kapalai
Mabul is located 15 km from Sipadan consists mostly flat grounds and aerial view is oval-shaped offers some of the best macro diving around. Crazy creatures and tiny, interesting-looking critters can be found at Mabul Island.
Kapalai is not quite an ‘island’. It has shallow crystal waters of the lagoon with a small sloping reef approximately 15m deep which contains many strange and beautifully ugly critters.
Mabul is a good place when underwater photographers are around and there are always a few scuba diving here at Pulau Mabul, so you can be sure that there are a wealth of interesting marine creatures lurking in every nook and cranny in many dive sites of Mabul. Diving in Mabul, which is surrounded by gentle, sloping reefs 2 to 40m deep, is quite different from what one would normally experience in Sipadan.
Kapalai is truly unique because it is not quite an ‘island’. It is actually a large sandbar with a scenic resort built on stilts over the shallow crystal waters of the lagoon. Kapalai consists of a small sloping reef approximately 15m deep which contains many strange and beautifully ugly critters. Diving the house reef of Kapalai reveals a submarine world of large and small wrecks, covered with colourful feather stars, sponges and corals, and providing shelter for schools of sweetlips, fusiliers, batfish, as well as a myriad of critters on the sandy bottom. Indeed, Kapalai is an underwater photographers’ paradise.
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