Dive Review of Sipadan Water Village in
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Sipadan Water Village, Mar, 2008, by Victor A. Bary, NJ, US ( Contributor 13 reports). Report 3952.
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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	The best organized dive operation I've ever encountered. As well as having lots of room and thorough briefings, dive masters asked in advance where we had dived in their covered area and where we wanted to go and what we wanted to see. Friendly and knowledgeable. We dived with another couple we've been diving with for 5 years (both are marine scientists with innumerable dives in challenging California waters). Dive masters quickly assessed our capabilities and allowed us to dive our own pace and profiles. Fabulous marine diversity. Muck diving provided nudis galore, ghost pipe fish, pygmy sea horses, frog fish, leaf fish, cuttle fish. Wall diving provided turtles galor, some sharks and bump head parrots, schools of jacks and barracuda, lots of soft coral, giant clams and other mollusks.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Aruba, Bermuda, Bahamas, Bonaire, Cayman Islands (Grand, Brac, Little), Fiji, Tursk & Caicos
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas
Water Temp	84-86°F / 29-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	0
Water Visibility	20-60 Ft/ 6-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	General time and depth, with considerable latitude for the experienced divers
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
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	Clean, camera-only rinse tanks. Dive masters attempted to find subjects photograhers were interested in. All carried pointers and nearly all 'Etch-a-Sketch' writing tablets.

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Dive Review of Sipadan Water Village in Malaysia/Mabul Island/ Sipadan Island

Sipadan Water Village, Mar, 2008,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of Sipadan Water Village in
Malaysia/Mabul Island/ Sipadan Island