Mabul and Kapalai
Protected Area
Sipadan Island Park
Why dive here
With 119+ marine species recorded in the area - including blue-spotted stingrays, giant moray eels, grey reef sharks, pygmy seahorses and sea turtles - Mabul and Kapalai offers some of Mabul & Kapalai's richest diving.
What a great combination it is to add the macro wonders of Mabul and Kapalai to the big stuff of Sipadan! Diving in at its core, Mabul and Kapalai are all about the small, the strange, and the camouflaged. You’ll spend your dives finning slowly over sandy flats and shallow reefs, eyes peeled for ribbon eels poking from the substrate or a well-hidden frogfish. We’ve spotted seahorses clinging to bits of seagrass and, if you time it right at dusk, mandarinfish putting on their mating display. It’s a photographer's dream, suiting divers who love to linger and really observe the smaller inhabitants of the reef.
Nearest Dive Centres to Mabul and Kapalai
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Uncle Chang's Sipadan Mabul Dive Lodge
Seaventures Dive Rig SDN. BHD
The Buwan Dive Resort
Nemo and Friends
TB Sipadan Carib Dive Center
Seabunny Scubacations Sdn Bhd
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