Malaysia scuba diving - pulau mabul island
dive sites of Malaysia.
Mabul island is located some 25 minutes north of Sipadan Island,
this island offers a different world of diving opportunities from
most other diving locations. Here is a macro
diving paradise where you will be able to find rare macro world
inhabitants hard to find at other dive sites.Among the
international diving community, the island's reputation as one of
the world's best muck diving site is no secret. Muck diving in
Mabul, a term used to describe limited visibility dives at
shallow sites with usually sandy bottoms, is one of diving's new
rages. It focuses on encounters with unusual little critters
popularly known as macro-life. Muck diving is a world away from
steep wall and coral reefs, with their almost limitless visibility
and easy-to-spot reef and pelagic life. In other words, muck diving
offers you the opportunity to flirt with the more bizarre and
unusual life marine life to be found.
Mabul island diving gives macro photographers some great
opportunities to capture some extremely rare ecological species
which have carved a niche for themselves in the underwater world
around here. Look out for species like multicolored nudibranches,
ghost pipefish, devil scorpionfish, stonefish, mantis shrimps,
mandarin fish, ribbon eels, snake eels, frogfish, seahorses and
crocodile fish, all of which make these sites their home.
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