Sipadan-Kapalai Resort

Location

Located just a few minutes away from the Sipadan and Mabul islands in its own oasis. Accessible through Semporna, Sabah.

Dive Overview

Shallow, accessible dives in a colorful underwater world. Dive spots are nearby and easily reached by motorboat, and offer a variety of spectacular sights.

[Read More: Sipadan Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

All 59 wooden chalets offering twin and triple sharing accommodation are attached with a cleverly thought-out balcony which offers the total sought out privacy by the lovers of sunbathing and sun tanning. Chalets are also equipped with bathrooms with shower and bathtub, basic toiletries, coffee and tea making facilities and 220 volts electrical points.

Food & Drinks

Meals are served buffet-style in a central open area.

Dive Information

Dive Sites

Dive spots are extremely close and can be reached in just a few minutes by speedboat and some of them, actually, just by swimming from the dive center pier. For those who are ready to explore more than the tiny marvels of Kapalais macro life, can, in just a few minutes, dive in Sipadan (where big fish and turtles abound) or in Mabul (where silky and muddy bottoms offer different and equally pleasant experiences and opportunities to the lovers of "muck diving")

Diving At Kapalai

• Diving around Kapalai is exceedingly easy and shallow but quite spectacular: the sandy bottom and the spare coral heads host an amazing array of small, often yet-to-be classified, shamelessly colorful subjects, making the diving here an unforgettable experience.
• Home to the weird and techno-colored flamboyant cuttlefish rumbling on the bottom like a miniature tank rippling with fluorescent waves of vermilion, purple, chocolate brown, bright yellow and blinding white, all the time waving and flourishing its paddle-shaped front tentacles like some samurai of yore, looking more like a sensuous orchid than a predatory cephalopod ; it is the domain of the invisible frogfish found in Kapalai in all sorts of shapes, sizes and
• colors- which despite sometimes being as large as a melon will often escape even from the most trained of wildlife spotters.
• Swimming, creeping, crawling or just simply lying still on the surrounding sand bottoms, hiding among the branching colonies of the shallow surrounding coral reef, ambushing their unwary prey from the hideouts offered by the resort stilts and a few artificial reefs dotting the bottom, an amazing number of rare and unbelievably colorful species play their game of life and death, offering visitor unsurpassed opportunities for interesting observation and macro photography for any discerning photographer

Sipadan-Kapalai Dive Resort Dive Center Overview

The dive center provides diving, snorkeling and kayaking equipment for rent. Their PADI Dive Instructors offer a variety of PADI courses.