Dive Review of Borneo Divers/Borneo DIvers Mabul Resort in
Malaysia/Mabul/Sipidan

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Borneo Divers/Borneo DIvers Mabul Resort, Jul, 2005, by Jerry Tuttle, az, USA ( Sr. Reviewer 7 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 1935.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Borneo Divers does a great job of getting you from Kota Kinabalu to the the resort and back. The resort cottages and clean and comfortable, the resort staff is competent, friendly and helpful. The food however is repititious and bland and the menu seems to be built around some odd idea of what the western and european palates want. Except for fried noodles every morning there was very little malaysian cuisine. The dive staff was friendly and helpful, but certainly some divemasters are more familiar with the dive sites and for small critters that is essential. I had been to Sipidan in 1993 and stayed on the Island at the Borneo Divers Lodge there. That was a great experience. Although my memory may be slipping the fish life around the Island does not seemed to have suffered. Turtles are abundant. Whites Tips are abundant. We spotted a Hammerhead and several blacktips. The schooling barracuda are still there. Maybe the school is a little smaller. The school of bumphead parrotfish is not nearly as large, but we did find it. You would not be disappointed by the fish life. Unfortunately the Island is crowded with divers all diving the few dive sites simutaneously . Without no island accomodations all the day boats converge on the Island daily with maybe 150 divers in the water at the same time often on the same dive sites. Mabul is no Lembeh for critters but a good divemaster can find ghost pipefish, frogfish, blue ribbon eels and some interesting nudibranchs. We spent 8 days here. Thats too long. Four dive days is plenty of time.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Indonesia, PNG, Mexico
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-75 Ft/ 15-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No e-6 facilities, no separate charging facilities for UWP, boats used to transport to SIpidan and other dive sites have no special accomodations for UWP

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Dive Review of Borneo Divers/Borneo DIvers Mabul Resort in Malaysia/Mabul/Sipidan

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Dive Review of Borneo Divers/Borneo DIvers Mabul Resort in
Malaysia/Mabul/Sipidan