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Mabul Island
first became popular due to its close proximity to Sipadan Island. However, in the last few years it has gained its own recognition as
one of the best "muck-diving" sites in the world.
Mabul Island
is a small oval shaped island surrounded by sandy beaches and
perched on the northwest corner of a larger 200-hectare reef. The
reef is on the edge of the continental shelf and the seabed
surrounding the reef slopes out to 25m-30m deep.
There are two
resorts on Mabul Island, Sipadan Water Village and Sipadan-Mabul
Resort and one resort on a nearby refurbished oil rig called Sea
Ventures Dive Resort.
Mabul is
arguably one of the richest single destinations for exotic small
marine life anywhere in the world. Flamboyant cuttlefish,
blue-ringed octopus, mimic octopus and bobtail squids are just a few
of the numerous types of cephalapods to be found on Mabul's reef.
The sight of harlequin shrimp feeding on sea stars and boxer crabs
waving their tiny anemone porn-pours are lust a small example of the
endless species of crustaceans. Many types of bodies can be found
including the spike fin goby, black sail-fin goby and metallic
shrimp gory. Frogfish are everywhere giant, painted and clown
frogfish are all regularly seen Moray eels and snake eels of many
types can be seen along with almost the whale scorpionfish
family.
It would be
quicker to list the species not found at Mabul - crazy critters are
in abundance at this magical macro site!
Source -Sabah Tourism Promotion (STP)
Picture Source - Sipadan Water Village Resort
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