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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,

by Jeffrey Watkins, NV, US (Reviewer 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 4 stars Food 3 stars
Service and Attitude 5 stars Environmental Sensitivity 5 stars
Dive Operation 5 stars Shore Diving 5 stars
Snorkeling N/A
Value for $$ 3 stars
Beginners 3 stars
Advanced 4 stars
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
Corals 4 stars Tropical Fish 4 stars
Small Critters 3 stars Large Fish 4 stars
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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