{"id":3505,"date":"2013-06-03T00:07:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T16:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2021-01-15T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:15:09","slug":"snorkeling-in-sipadan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/snorkeling-in-sipadan-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Snorkeling in Sipadan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

Being described as an “Untouched Piece of Art”<\/strong> by Jacques Cousteau, Sipadan Island is always high on the chart of best dive sites and frequented by scuba divers from all over the world. To promote Sipadan, travel agents like to use underwater photographs of divers, as if the only way to see the beauty of Sipadan is to wear over 30 pounds of diving gears and sink to the sea bottom.<\/p>\n

So, is swimming and snorkeling in Sipadan just a waste of time? Read on, you will see that Sipadan is also best for snorkeling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Sipadan
\nSipadan is the only oceanic island of Malaysia and its reef is built on a volcanic seamount which rises steeply from a surrounding seabed more than 500 Meters in depth. In brief, Sipadan is a mushroom-like island in the deep ocean. This 13.5-Hectare island, which takes only 20 minutes to walk one round, looks like an ordinary tropical island, but there is a lot of going on under its water.<\/p>\n

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\nPic: the deep blue seawater is the 500 Meters drop. Sound scary, but a lot of corals bloom on its steep wall and become “hanging garden”, which is famous for Wall Diving.<\/p>\n

\"snorkeling<\/p>\n

In my last visit to Sipadan, I snorkeled in 3 sites, which are only 3 to 6 Meters deep and not far from the island.<\/p>\n

If you prefer to watch video, the following is the 2.5-min video of my snorkeling tour in Sipadan:<\/p>\n