Legendary Pulau Sipadan, Malaysia

Old Story. In May 2010 one of my dream came true as a diver. I had a diving day on legendary Sipadan island. Sipadan is 30min by boat from Pulau Mabul in East Borneo, Malaysia. Nowadays only 120 divers can dive at Sipadan per day. There has been also possibility to stay over night on Sipapan before, but not anymore for long time. All the places had to close the doors permanently last day of December 2004. Now divers can do only day trips to Sipadan.
Sipadan is only oceanic island in Malaysia. It means island is not connected to mainland at all. Sipadan rise directly from the ocean. Walls continue all the way from the surface to 500m. Most of the dives are wall dives.
Visibility unfortunately was not the best possible. Storms and rains had mixed the water and visibility. Immediately on the first dive I anyway realized why Sipadan is so famous. There are turtles everywhere.
And more.
Sometimes I was taking a picture from one turtle. When I continued forward I could see 2-3 new turtle in the same time just turning my head. During the 3 dives I saw tens of turtles. Here divemaster with two turtles and jacks.
Biggest one was huge. Look at the fins and tail of this guy! It's almost like Volkswagen Beetle.
Lunch break on the island.
Barracudas.
Clown triggerfish.
Huge puffer with big belly.
Whitetip reefsharks are also very common in Sipadan. Especially on the third dive we saw many sharks.
This one was laying on the bottom and I went very carefully just next to her. Remora is also with the shark.
Whitetip reefshark swimming around me.

Very interesting diving day. Even though the visibility was not so good on my diving day, Sipadan is great diving place!

Cheers,
Mika