Dive Review of
Kapalai in
Malaysia/Sabah

Palau,Yap,Philippines,Thailand,Indonesia,Red Sea,
Florida,Bonaire,Caymans,Bahamas,Mexico,Irian Jaya

Dive Conditions

no deco diving, come back with 300 PSI air or in about an hour (but not
rigidly enforced)  

Enthusiatic dive guides very good at finding requested subjects. All
cameras handled with care,good rinse tanks provided, no E-6 processing.
Between my buddy & I, we took over 9500 digital & slide images.   

Overall Rating

Kapalai is a beautiful water village, built on piers with no island.  It
offers great macro opportunities. Boat dives around the resort & at
neighboring Mabul island yielded frogfish, coral gobies, pygmy lionfish,
nudibranchs, mimic & blue ring octopus, tiny cuttlefish, ghost
pipefish, seahorses & many other exotic critters. Shore dives were
great for mating mandarins & fabulous night dives. 3 boat dives a day
& unlimited shore diving was available. If bigger fish were your
passion, you could take a 15 minute boat ride & spend the entire day at
Sipadan where endless turtles, barracuda, sharks & jack schools could
be seen. Accomodations & service at Kapalai were outstanding & far
surpassed the crowded, buggy conditions on Sipadan. Food was tasty, fresh
& plentiful. Dive boats were in very good condition, the dive crew
helpful & professional. Divemasters were alert to your experience level
& treated you accordingly. Those that needed handholding got it &
advanced divers were allowed to dive their own profiles. This was our 2nd
visit & we stayed a month this time. We'd go back in a heartbeat. Need
I say more?  

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