Sipadan Island
Sipadan was dubbed '"an untouched piece of art" by Jacques Cousteau. This tiny island, 20 miles off the east coast of Sabah, is famous for its huge population of green and hawksbill turtles. The island is actually the tip of a precipitous sea mountain which rises 2,000 metres from the depths of the Sulawesi Sea. Divers also frequently encounter massive schools of barracuda and jacks, while whiteptip reef sharks patrol the vertiginous walls. Mantas and bumphead parrotfish are often sighted too.
These images were obtained as frame captures from a video taken by one of our divers on the trip, City Divers divemaster Alan Wright.
