Dive Review of Pulau-Sipadan resort & touring/Lankayan Island Resort in
Malaysia/Lankayan Island,Sabah

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Pulau-Sipadan resort & touring/Lankayan Island Resort, Mar, 2005, by Sally Schroeder, Fla, USA . Report 1661.
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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 $$	N/A
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Comments	I do long dives and was not told up front about the 45 min limit. Which did not go over well at all. I had in person chats with the booking folks prior to this trip. The resort is very nice, clean cabins on the beach, nice private balconies, clean hot water showers/ baths w/ flush toilets, baby blacktip reef sharks all over the shallows under the pier were nice to watch. Good food & friendly resort staff. Nice buffet food service in beach front local with a good breeze. Dive operations were another deal altogether. The 1st, 2nd & 3rd tanks I put my gear on were filled to over 4,000 pounds. Dive staff did not seem to think this was unusual or a problem. Super silty dive sites (I only saw 2+ the pier) really poor for photos and very few fish. Again I did not stick around to see more. So this is very limited commentary. Got on the 1st boat only 2 other divers. The guide, when asked what interesting things we should look for said "follow me". I put gear on in the water. When the boat driver went to hand my gear down to me, it crashed to the floor of the boat as he had left it standing on a seat for a moment. The dive guide showed me not a single thing while underwater. After 45 min I got tapped on the shoulder and told to surface....I had more than 2,000 pounds in a 63 size tank. Night dive was alone under the docks where there were maybe a dozen fish. 3 other divers did a 25 min dive and left. I stayed in over an hour just to give things a really look about. Second boat dive was the next morning. Dive was briefed for 45 min. I asked what the deal was on the 45 min and was told I needed to charter my own boat, driver and private guide for who knows how much additional $$'s if I wished to be in the water over 45 min. During this, my last dive with these folks, there were 9 dynamite blasts during the dive. None of the other 3 divers seemed surprized. After some serious discussions with the dive operator I have reached an agreeable settlement with them. Sabah itself is a really beautiful state to visit. I did lots of land things after this aborted diving episode. Big green lush mountains, jungle, waterfalls, hiking, canopy walks, orang Utangs, in all a great adventure place to visit. I know it offers great diving, I just did not find it this time. Yes I'll return to Sabah anytime.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	8 trips to Indonesia, 15 places in the Caribbean, Red Sea, Thailand, Hawaii
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm, noCurrents
Water Temp	76-82°F / 24-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-30 Ft/ 6-9 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Follow the leader only, 45 min max bottom time even with bottom being 18-20 meter depths max.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	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	Nothing on the boat specifically for camera gear. Wash bin for gear & separate for camera on the pier where you board the boat. Nothing special for camera area on the pier that I saw. Wet bins of gear in 1 room seemed to be the only on the pier gear area. Rooms were a 50 meter walk away so close by.

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Dive Review of Pulau-Sipadan resort & touring/Lankayan Island Resort in Malaysia/Lankayan Island,Sabah

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Dive Review of Pulau-Sipadan resort & touring/Lankayan Island Resort in
Malaysia/Lankayan Island,Sabah