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After a pretty grotty breakfast, and finding out that the company I'm diving with take you deeper than they should, i got my gear together (which had certainly seen better days!) and we set off in the boat to Sipidan Island. Typically i'd picked one of the roughest days they'd seen for a while and we all got soaked and cold on the journey there....

A restless night, mostly caused by the indeterminate transfer issue and we were waiting for the alarm clock at 4.00am. Too early for breakfast but we had been given some orange juice. Still dark, we waited in reception and chatted to the night security guard. Just before 5am a pair of headlights appeared at the end of the drive, then disappeared...

Sipadan. Sipadan. Sipadan. That is all you hear in these parts. "You must go to Sipadan."(in a European accent) So we went to Sipadan. The famous dive spot with barricuda schools, sharks, beautiful coral, giant sea turtles and too much more to mention. The resorts on this island got kicked off and it's now a national park. We stayed at a neighb...

Aujourd'hui direction l'ile de Sibuan ! Dans le genre 'Ile paradisiaque', je crois n'avoir pas encore vu mieux. Je suis sure que vous avez encore en memoire un des reportages de Nicolas Hulot pour Ushuaia... Laissez-moi vous planter le decor : vue d'un helicoptere, une ile solitaire se detache du bleu marin, et l'on peut uniquement apercevoir sa...

Apres un rapide petit dejeuner au marche (il est inclus a la guesthouse, mais j'ai un peu de mal avec la bouffe occidentale maintenant, surtout les oeufs le matin...), depart pour 3 plongees sur Mabul et Kapalai ! Mabul fait partie des sites les plus connus pour le muck-diving. Le muck, c'est la sorte de sediment en suspension qu'il y a bien sou...

After our last breakfast at Uncle Tans we hopped on the boat for the last time and headed off to Semporna. We got a minibus with Leigh & Matt (from South Africa and Zimbabwe) and Matej & Yvana (from the Czech Republic) as they were headed the same way. After a few hours drive we arrived hot, sweaty and in desperate need of a shower. We didn't kn...

After our jungle adventures we headed down through the billions of hectares of palm oil plantations to, yet another, concrete jungle called Semporna. Why did we go here? For world class diving! Although I had already booked, I was a bit early, but I managed to start my open water course the next day. I was with two lovely people, a Welsh girl (S...

Well, i spent the last three days doing my advanced scuba, it was pretty easy just alot of diving, we did six. They were mostly like fun dives. I have seen so many turtles it is unbelievable. And I never get sick of them. We saw sharks too. It is so cool swimming underneath and looking up and seeing them in silloette from the sun. One of the gir...

So yeah.. best diving eeeever! Soooo sooo good. I figured I was going to have a good dive, when, not having even descended into the water, I could see a turtle floating just under me in the water... and then a shark! That was pretty much a small glimpse of what was to come in the amaaazing dives I had today. First diving spot (all of these aroun...

Rescue Diver Training Course September 29 to October 2, 2007 Kay and I have been thinking about doing our Rescue Diver course for a while now and finally decided to do it here in Semporna. Emergency First Responder (CPR, Primary & Secondary Response) is a prerequisite 1-day course. Both classes combined take about 4 days to complete and cost...