Sipadan Water Village

Location

Located on the island of Mabul, about a 35-minute boat ride from Semporna, on the east coast of Sabah.

Dive Overview

Boasting some of the best macro diving in the world, the waters surrounding Sipadan and Mabul hold a colorful kaleidoscope for divers to enjoy. Sipadan Water Village's on-site dive center offers a large range of dive options and courses, placing careful emphasis on eco-tourism.

[Read More: Sipadan Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

Sipadan Water Village offers 45 water chalets comprising of standard, deluxe, junior, and grand deluxe options.The chalets are spacious with wide sliding doors that open onto the room's private deck. Each chalet features:

• Balcony offering sea or island view
• Tea/coffee maker
• Private bathroom and toiletries
• Hair dryer
• Hot/cold showers
• Ceiling fans
• Minibar (consumption is charged to guest's room account)
• Settees
• Dressing table/chair
• Wooden wardrobe
• Electrical light and power point (220-240V)

Food & Drinks

Meals are served in buffet style featuring a mixture of local and continental cuisine.

Dive Information

Dive Sites

Due to the fact that the marine life found around Mabul Island varies greatly from that of Sipadan Island, a combination of the two islands for diving make a diver's diving holiday more complete. Mabul and Kapalai is heaven for studying the micro aspects of marine life and guarantees hours of fascinating fish watching with ample opportunities for photography. At world-renowned Sipadan Island, divers get a different experience as one dive amongst the giants of the sea and it's only 20 minutes away from the comforts of Sipadan Water Village.

Mabul And Kapalai

There are about 17 dive sites in Mabul and about 13 dive sites in Kapalai. It takes less than 15 minutes to get from the resort to any of the Mabul dive sites by the dive boat and less than 15 minutes to Kapalai. Most of the diving in Mabul and Kapalai is very shallow with depths from 60 feet to as shallow as 10 feet. These places are "macro heaven on earth". On one given dive, divers may get to see as many as 25 or 30 remarkable photo subjects including squid, cuttlefish, anemone shrimp, gobies with blind cleaner shrimp, porcelain crabs, juvenile batfish, harlequin ghost pipefish, mushroom coral pipefish, mandarin fish, dragonets and many more.

Sipadan

There are about 13 dive sites in Sipadan. On a good sea condition, it takes about 20 minutes from Mabul to Sipadan. Most of the diving in Sipadan is a combination of wall and drift diving. The walls are covered with hard corals, soft corals, gorgonians, sponges etc. You can see more turtles on one dive here than in a lifetime of diving anywhere else. Divers may also get to see a huge resident school of barracudas, which make beautiful circling patterns on top of the reef, in 10 or 15 feet of water at the South Point.

Dive Center Information

Sipadan Water Village Dive Center Overview

The Dive Centre is responsible for all in-water activities and scuba training and education. The center opens from 0700hrs onwards and is equipped with lockers, showers, toilet and a common area for resting between dives with complimentary snack, hot coffee and tea.

It carries 5 Bauer compressors for refilling tanks, over 300 aluminum 3000 psi / 80 cubic foot tanks with American style "K" valves, rental sets of scuba diving equipment that is mainly Scuba Pro.

The center equipped with custom-built fiberglass dive boats that carry 12 passengers each. Each boat goes out 3 trips daily accompanied by a boatman and a Dive Master.

All Dive Masters are specially trained in the marine ecology of Mabul Island and will not only show divers the attractions but also impart their knowledge of the marine life so that guests may return from their memorable holiday with a better understanding of the environment.

Practical Information

• Electricity: 220-240V
• Time zone: UTC+8
• Accept Credit Cards?: Yes
• Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Italian & Malay