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	Sipadan divers, Sipadan island, Sipadan Dive Center
		Sipadan is the only deep-water oceanic island in Malaysia, the island itself is the tip of a precipitous sea mountain; an isolated column of rock rising 600 meters (2,000 ft) from the sea floor.
		Sipadan is perched on the northern margin of the Celebes Sea, a huge basin, which at its deepest point plunges to 6,200 m.
		Sipadan is unusual in that it is the only island in Malaysia where you can expect to encounter a large number of these harmless denizens of the deep.
	www.sipadandivers.com /where-we-are.shtml (608 words)

	Sipadan home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The name of Sipadan is simply legendary in diving circles, conjuring images of patrolling hammerhead sharks, millions of technicolored reef fish and, above all, dozens of sea turtles swimming peacefully everywhere.
		This description is not far from reality: it might even actually be down played a little as Sipadan is considered one of the five top diving destinations in the world.
		This small rainforest-covered tropical island rising from a 700 meter abyss in the Celebes Sea is a destination the committed diver cannot miss.
	www.sipadan-resort.com (164 words)

	Sipadan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia; rising 2,000 feet or 600m from seabed; it is formed by living corals that grow on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands years to develop.
		Sipadan is located at the heart of Indo-Pacific basin, which puts itself at the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world.
		This move is mainly to conserve a balanced eco-system for Sipadan and its surrounding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sipadan (766 words)

	Sipadan Island - Dive Packages
		First of all, its geographical position: Sipadan Island is in the center of the richest marine habitat in the world, the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin.
		Sipadan is well known for its unusually large numbers of green and hawksbill turtles which gather there to mate and nest.
		Sipadan also boasts a rich variety of corals; both soft and hard, among these Dendronephyta in delicate pastel colors and feather stars of all shades and hues.
	www.diveborneo.com /locations/sipadan.htm (361 words)

	SabahTravelGuide.Com, The ultimate travel guide to Sabah, Borneo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sipadan is an oceanic island and was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct undersea volcano, which rises 600m from the seabed.
		Sipadan is well known for its unusually large numbers of green and hawksbill turtles which gather there to mate and nest and it is not unusual for a diver to see more then 70 turtles on each dive.
		Another unique feature to divers visiting Sipadan is the turtle tomb, an underwater limestone cave with a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers that contain many skeletal remains of tribes that became disoriented and then drowned.
	www.sabahtravelguide.com /mapguide/default.asp?page=sipadan (436 words)

	Scuba Diving Malaysia Borneo Island Sipadan Dive Mabul Resort
		Sipadan is no discovery, it's been around for a while now, but the real discovery is the diving around Mabul itself, home to the world's best "muck diving".
		Although you can still walk around the entire island in less than an hour, Mabul is considerably larger than Sipadan, and boasts two resorts and a large village, mainly home to fisherman and employees (and their families) of the two resorts.
		If you're diving around Sipadan, then you're out for the whole day, but if you're diving around Mabul, then you will be coming back to the resort between each dive allowing you the opportunity to have a quick shower, change film, take a nap or lounge around the main house sipping cool drinks.
	amrnour.com /malaysia.htm (1791 words)

	Sipadan travel guide - Wikitravel
		Sipadan used to have resorts but to save the environment they are now closed.
		From the main beach of the original resort, it is a mere 20m wade over the reef to be reach the top of the reef wall dropping 600m.
		Note that a barge accident on 15 May 2006 did some damage to the reefs at Sipadan, crushing a portion of reef on the old pier and Barracuda Point and dumping its cargo of gravel in the area.
	wikitravel.org /en/Sipadan (416 words)

	Report from Sipadan Island
		The cabins at Sipadan are referred to as chalets, but perhaps are best described as "grass shacks on the beach." They are much improved from the camping days, but still relatively Spartan in design and accouterments.
		The underwater environment is quite different from that of Sipadan, in great part due to the years of fish bombing to which the reefs of Mabul have been subjected.
		Sipadan Squirrels - Some years ago coconut rats scrambled off a supply boat onto Sipadan Island and established themselves as part of the environment.
	www.explore-2100.com /sipa_rpt.htm (5541 words)

	Scuba Dive Sipadan Island, Borneo, Malaysia - Diving Sipadan Island - Scuba Dive Travel, Dive Adventures Australia
		The name of Sipadan is simply legendary in diving circles, conjuring images of twirling tornados of barracudas and jacks, patrolling hammerhead sharks, millions of technicoloured reef fish and, above all, dozens of sea turtles swimming peacefully everywhere.
		Diving at Sipadan is rated as the best in the world not without good reason.
		While most divers are most impressed with the quantity of large marine life at Sipadan, it is a haven for tiny creatures as well.
	www.diveadventures.com /pages/destinations/Malaysia/Sipadan_Island.htm (448 words)

	Beautiful Sipadan: In Malaysia ~ by David Lavoie
		Sipadan was at the top of Scuba Diving magazine’s Gold List for The Top Dive Destinations of the World, a distinction it shared with two other destinations known for an equal diversity of their marine life - the Galapagos Islands and Truk in Micronesia.
		In fact, Sipadan lies right on the Indonesian border and was once claimed by both Malaysia and Indonesia in a dispute which had to be solved by the World Court.
		Sipadan can be dived year round because it is not affected by the Monsoon rains which seasonally close dive sites in western Malaysia, but it is not for everyone.
	www.escapeartist.com /efam/65/Travel_To_Malaysia.html (1382 words)

	CDC Divers Malaysia \| Dive sites of Malaysia - Pulau Sipadan island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sipadan is the legendary island of the turtles, Kapalai with a resort built on stilts in the middle of the sea, and Mabul - an enchanting island where every coconut tree has its own number.
		Sipadan is well known for its unusually large numbers of green and hawksbill turtles which gather there to mate and nest and it is not unusual for a diver to see more then 20 turtles on each dive.
		Another unique feature to dives visiting Sipadan in the turtle tomb, an underwater limestone cave with a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers that contain many skeletal remains of turtles that became disoriented and then drowned.
	www.cdcdivers.com /dive_sipadan.html (584 words)

	Scuba divng at resorts around Borneo, including Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan - Sipadan and Mabul
		In fact, Fred S. concluded that Sipadan would be ‘the safest’ place to go almost immediately after the incident, after analysing news clippings and information available on the extra security measures taken in response to the incident.
		Sipadan is located within the Indo-Pacific and offers one of the richest concentrations of marine-life in the world.
		The island of Sipadan is actually a rocky outcrop which rises dramatically from the ocean floor.
	www.borneo.com.au /diving/dive003.htm (786 words)

	CDNN Eco News :: Sipadan - Malaysia Orders Dive Industry To Leave Sipadan
		As Sipadan's reputation as an unspoilt wildlife haven began to tarnish, dive operators were driven to lighten their footprints on the island.
		All efforts to keep Sipadan pristine would be pointless if silty and polluted run-offs continue to wash into the sea from the mainland.
		Sipadan is also likely to be designated a marine reserve under Sabah Parks.
	www.cdnn.info /eco/e040629a/e040629a.html (1961 words)

	Sipadan Water Village, Mabul - Muck Diving
		Sipadan Water Village offers you the excitement of superb diving along with comfort and relaxation.
		Sipadan Water Village is located on the island of Mabul.
		Sipadan is well known for its unusually large numbers of green and hawksbill turtles which gather there to mate and nest and it is not unusual for a diver to see more than 20 turtles on each dive.
	www.sipadanwatervillage.com (612 words)

	Sipadan, Malaysia, Sabah ~ Wannadive.net, The dive site atlas, maps, GPS location, photos of scubadiving sites.
		Sipadan ('Border Island' in Malay) is the only oceanic island in Malaysia; rising 2,000 feet or 600m from seabed; it is formed by living corals that grow on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands years to develop.
		Sipadan is located at the heart of Indo-Pacific basin (22 miles South of Semporna, off the South-East coest of Sabah), which puts itself at the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world.
		The Sipadan diving legend has passed through the world's dive community to the extent that all divers with an interest in visiting the best sites in the world, have this small island near the top of their wish list.
	www.wannadive.net /spot/Asia/Malaysia/Sabah/Sipadan/index.html (534 words)

	Sipadan
		There was always a chance of seeing bigger pelagics on a Sipadan dive (seeing five hammerheads on a sunrise dive at 35 metres was a real highlight) but the great beauty of the area is that divers can also head to Kapilai and Mabul island for some 'muck' diving.
		The visibility is not as good as Sipadan's but the macro life is amazing; we saw several huge frogfish, leaf scorpionfish, mantis shrimps, garden eels, fire gobies, and various pipefish.
		Some of our group had been to Sipadan several years before and were wary of returning, having heard rumours of coral damage and fewer fish and turtles.
	home.pacific.net.hk /~tag2000/sipadan.html (723 words)

	SCUBA Diving News: Barge Damages Sipadan
		Sipadan is a limestone pinnacle rising from 600 m.
		The owner of the barge that decimated the reef of Sipadan should be heavily fined and the money used to repair the reef which will take many years.
		Why on earth a barge of that size was even allowed to enter Sipadan water's is beyond me. Any diver with half a brain will tell you how shallow the water's are close to the jetty.
	www.scubatravel.co.uk /divingnews/2006/05/barge-damages-sipadan.html (1285 words)

	Sipadan Island \| Pulau Sipadan , Sabah : journeymalaysia.com
		The island looks pretty much like any other island found in our waters but the only difference is that, millions of years ago, Sipadan was formed by an undersea volcano, which means that it is a deepwater oceanic island.
		Sipadan is located some 35km(22miles) south of Semporna, on the southeastern side of Sabah in Borneo.
		Today, Sipadan is on a slow but hopefully progressive road to recovery.
	www.journeymalaysia.com /MI_sipadan.htm (661 words)

	Divester
		As if Sipadan didn't have enough to worry about right now, Malaysia's local news service is reporting that an increasing number of divers are traveling to Pulau Sipadan illegally.
		Claiming the damage caused by the Sipadan barge was "very minimum," he argued that the news was blown out of proportion by the foreign media.
		Recently, I mentioned the famous section of Sipadan's reef that was destroyed by a barge that devastatingly scraped against it.
	divester.com /tag/sipadan (2952 words)

	Borneo Diving: Sipadan · Divehappy.com
		Given that Sipadan is one of the world’s most well-known dive destinations, famous for its sheer walls which plunge directly from the island’s tiny beach hundreds of metres into the depths of the ocean, there were fears that the shutdown order meant the end of diving at Sipadan itself.
		Sipadan has continued to grow both in popularity and accessibility, thanks to its spectacular wall reefs where thousands of species gather to live and hunt.
		Given that Sipadan is effectively a finger of rock rising 600 metres from the depths of the ocean floor, it offers shelter and protection to manta rays, large schools of hammerhead sharks and occasionally whale sharks.
	divehappy.com /borneo/borneo-diving-sipadan (2008 words)

	Asia Dive Site \| Malaysia dive sites :: Sipadan
		Sipadan Island is considered the pinnacle of diving in Malaysia and one of the top diving destinations in the world.
		In order to preserve the rich marine diversity of Sipadan, the island has been declared as a protected national park reserve and as of 1st January 2005, all resorts based on the island of Sipadan itself closed down.
		The best way to dive Sipadan is from one of the local resorts on the neighbouring islands of Mabul and Kapalai.
	www.asiadivesite.com /malaysia-dive-sites/sipadan (331 words)

	Sipadan
		Sipadan's varied marine topography makes it an astonishing place to dive, with caves, walls, canyons, plateaux and overhangs.
		Green, Hawksbill, and Leatherback Turtles are regular inhabitants of Sipadan Island, coming ashore in season to lay their eggs on the island's pristine beaches.
		Sipadan Water Village on the island of Mabul, offers you the excitement of superb diving along with comfort and relaxation.
	www.diveworldwide.com /holiday/sipadan.html (536 words)

	Diving in Sipadan Island, Sabah, Malaysia
		Sipadan attracts divers from all over the world simply because it is the best diving spot in Malaysia and among the best in the world.
		Sipadan was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct undersea volcano.
		A legend in diving circles, the name Sipadan conjures up images of Barracudas and Jacks moving about, Hammerhead sharks patrolling the waters, colourful fishes darting around the reefs and sea-turtles gently swimming with the currents.
	www.myoutdoor.com /sabah/sipadan/index.htm (311 words)

	Report from Sipadan Island
		Borneo Divers' Sipadan Diving Lodge - The Borneo Divers (Ron Holland, Samson Shak, Randy Davis, Clement Lee) literally discovered the diving at Sipadan Island, and over the years have developed it from overnight camping trips to a full service, fifty guest dive resort; celebrating the tenth anniversary of Sipadan Diving Lodge in 1994.
		The cabins at Sipadan are referred to as chalets, but perhaps are best described as "grass shacks on the beach." They are much improved from the camping days, but still relatively Spartan in design and accouterments.
		The underwater environment is quite different from that of Sipadan, in great part due to the years of fish bombing to which the reefs of Mabul have been subjected.
	www.divetrip.com /sipa_rpt.htm (5541 words)

	Channelnewsasia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Sipadan is considered to be a world treasure for its dramatic undersea landscapes, steep drop-offs and abundant wildlife," said WWF-Malaysia Marine Coordinator Ken Kassem in a statement released Sunday to AFP.
		Sipadan island sits at the crown of a limestone spire rising hundreds of metres from the bed of the Celebes Sea and has been lauded worldwide for its thriving marine life.
		Sabah officials have said Sipadan might be closed indefinitely to allow the corals to recover.
	www.channelnewsasia.com /stories/afp_asiapacific/view/209474/1/.html (571 words)

	Sipadan Mabul :: SMART (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sipadan is the tip of a mountain with steep underwater walls all around it.
		Diving on Sipadan is all drift diving, divers drop in and cruise with the current along the walls.
		MABUL in contrast to Sipadan, is a continuation of the Borneo landmass rather than the top of an underwater mountain.
	www.diveinfo.net /trips/overseas/smart.htm (1746 words)

	Coral reefs wiped out at Sipadan :: Wetpixel.com
		Hundreds of meters of coral and turtles have been wiped out at Sipadan in a tragic accident involving a large barge and the local irresponsibility of whoever is managing the island.
		It is incredible ironic that dive resorts were pushed off of the island in an attempt to preserve Sipadan’s amazing marine life, only to result in the destruction of the very resource they were trying to protect.
		Sipadan is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been, both topside and in the water.
	wetpixel.com /i.php/full/coral-reefs-wiped-out-at-sipadan (877 words)

	Godzilla Diving in Borneo's Sipadan Island, An Ideal Yacht Charter @ Yacht Vacations & Charters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A lot of Sipadan’s shallow coral reef has been damaged over the years, due to divers and boat anchors, but the fish and green turtles are still there, as are the big fans on the deep walls at 30 to 40 metres.
		Last year, all the accommodation on Sipadan Island was closed down, in a move by the Malaysian Government, to give the island a break from tourism, and to help have it declared as a ‘World Heritage Site’.
		Sipadan Island is one of the most spectacular places I’ve dived for large marine animals, and I hope that its green turtles in particular, are given the highest possible protection.
	www.yachtchartersmagazine.com /read/160896.htm (2051 words)

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