A Diver's Paradise: Sipadan Island in Sabah
SIPADAN ISLAND Sipadan is now officially eligible to be considered for nomination as a Unesco World Heritage site. The nominee for the World's New Seven Wonders of Nature is famous for its abundance of turtles, schooling barracudas, white tip reef sharks, bumphead parrotfish and its teeming reef. The island will be judged by a scientific panel alongside other world-renowned diving destinations, such as the Raja Ampat, Banda islands and Bunaken National Park in Indonesia, the Tubbatha and Apo Reefs in the Philippines and hundreds of other islands in the world . The water around Sipadan Island is so clear, with the living of healthy colonies of fish, turtles, corals and other marine life. The Drop-Off at 600m straight to the bottom is what makes Sipadan unique. Sipadan is an oceanic island which is not connected to any continental shelf but rises straight from the deep ocean floor. Popular for wall diving, where all the coral reefs are vertical. Great plac...