Dive Review of Borneo Divers/Borneo Divers Mabul Resort in
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Borneo Divers/Borneo Divers Mabul Resort: "Bucket List Malaysia", Mar, 2019, by Jeffrey Watkins, NV, US ( Reviewer 3 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 11084 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This report is part of a two week trip that included Sipadan Island and the Similan Islands in Thailand. You must dive Sipadan at least once in your dive career. The resort was attractive and the staff was friendly. My room was nice and the food was decent. Meals were included and served buffet style. The dive operation was good. I would stay here and dive here again if I go back. I’m not sure, however, if I would go back here for diving again any time soon. The best diving was at Sipadan island which was excellent. But due to conservation restrictions you can only dive the island with a permit. You must stay for 5 days at the resort in order to get one day of diving at Sipadan Island. They arrange your day at Sipadan so that you can do four dives by leaving early in the morning. You eat breakfast and lunch on the island and return to Mabul Island in the afternoon. Traveling this far for one day of excellent diving probably doesn’t make much sense. But Sipidan dives are so excellent that it's worth it. The diving at Mabul Island and Kalapai Island is good, to very good, but visibility was not nearly as good as Sipadan Island. The shore diving on the house reef in front of the resort was very good. The house reef visibility was poor but there was so much to see that this dive was surprisingly good. The boat diving was fairly regimented. Our group of nine divers was assigned to one boat with a boat driver and two divemasters. Entries were via a backroll. Re-entry to the boat was by climbing a ladder in full gear or they would drag your gear on board if you wanted to take gear off in the water. We dove as a group in buddy pairs. One DM leads the group and the other follows up at the tail of the group. They weren’t strict about buddy pairs. Photographers who wanted to do their own thing could go alone far from their buddy. We finished the dive as a group. I wish that dive times could be a little longer, most were 50 minutes, but I didn’t have a lot of extra air remaining on most dives.
Websites	Borneo Divers Borneo Divers Mabul Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Bonaire, Belize, Turks and Caicos, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Palau, Chuuk.
Closest Airport	TWU	Getting There	San Francisco, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, overnight, Tawau, van Semporna, boat Mabul Island
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-82°F / 26-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-110 Ft/ 9-34 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	dive time, sipadan permits required
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	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	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	I'm not a photographer. Dive boats didn't have a special place for cameras. Cameras placed in plastic gear storage totes at the stern of the boat.

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Dive Review of Borneo Divers/Borneo Divers Mabul Resort in Malaysia/Mabul Island

Borneo Divers/Borneo Divers Mabul Resort: "Bucket List Malaysia", Mar, 2019,

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Dive Review of Borneo Divers/Borneo Divers Mabul Resort in
Malaysia/Mabul Island