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Kuala Lumpur

Seaventures Dive Resort
Sabah, Malaysia.

2002, 2004, 2005.

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DAVE & JAN'S DIVING DIARY

and is updated constantly. 16 September 2006

Photo Equipment	Nudibranches	Australia	Sipadan Island	Bali	Yap
Chuuk Lagoon	Florida	Maldives	Shark's	Fiji	Tenerife
Gibraltar	Papua New Guinea	Manado	Lembeh 2005	Sea Ventures	U.K. diving
Yucatan	Frog Fish	Moray Eel's	Egypt Red Sea	Lembeh KBR 2006	Cozumel


Awang Marshall & Jan	Dave & Marshall	Janet & Marshall	Janet & Stefan	Jan, Marshall & Dave

Local Housing Mabul	Seaventures "The Rig"	Navy Patrol	Marshal, Jan & Franke	Guests & Marshall

Seaventures Dive Resort, a scuba dive heaven, 1km off the coast of Mabul, Sabah, Northern Borneo. The resort used to be a Oil Exploration Platform, These days it is home to divers from all over the world who want that little bit extra from their dives. Sadly, all the photo’s of any quality have been lost from the 2002 trip also lost are those from the Papua New Guinea trip of 2002 due to a hard disc failure. Our big trip of 2002 was Sabah, Australia and Papua New Guinea. We left the UK mid way through November and had a few days in Singapore to get over The long haul. We were now off on our way to dive one of The most famous dive sites in the world.


Banded Boxer Shrimp	Blue Ribbon Eel	Blue Ribbon Eel	Blue Ring Octopus	Blue Ring Octopus

Blue Ring Octopus	Blue Spotted Ray	Box Fish	Box Fish	Bubble Coral Shrimp

We flew from Singapore to Kota Kinabalu where we were met by May who gave me my onward and return flight tickets, then on to Tawau on the East Coast of Sabah, just North of the border with Indonesian Kalimantan, we were met at the airport by the staff of Seaventures, who then took us overland to Semporna where we boarded the boat for the dive platform. Our home for the next 8 days was to be an old Oil exploration platform that had been towed from Panama and moored about a kilometre of the Island of Mabul, check out The platform, it is situated off Mabul and about 10 minutes boat ride from Sipadan, Kapalai is also about 10 minutes away, Mabul and Kapalai are great muck diving sites, take your camera, the creatures are Fascinating.


Blue Ribbon Eel	Chromodoris annae	Chromodoris annae	Chromodoris annae	Chromodoris annae

Chromodoris annae	Chromodoris annae	Chromodoris annae	Chromodoris bullockii 3	Chromodoris dianae

The diving underneath the Rig reminded me of Stoney Cove except for the temp, a "cool" 30 C and the fish life is extraordinary. Lion Fish, Frog Fish, Scorpion Fish and the biggest Moray Eel I have ever seen. The evenings here were something that we always looked forward to, Me, Jan, Jerry, Awang, Marshall & Eddie eating and drinking on the rear sun deck, they were wonderful evenings, listening to Eddies story’s kept us entertained. Great memories. The accommodation on the platform was for us, excellent, we were the only guests on board and were treated like royalty, breakfast at 7am was a real treat and we dived when we were ready, a 10 minute boat ride out to Sipadan about 9am. As soon as we entered the water there were fish everywhere, big schools of Jacks and Barracuda, more Turtles than we could count, we watched a Shark prowling around a bommie and bump into a Titan, boy the Shark had a fright, he was soon gone.


Chromodoris kuniei	Chromodoris kuniei	Chromodoris kuniei	Chromodoris kuniei	Chromodoris kuniei

Chromodoris magnifica	Chromodoris magnifica	Chromodoris magnifica	Chromodoris magnifica	Chromodoris michaeli

We counted about 20 Bumphead Parrotfish in a herd slowly swimming passed us. The good thing about our dives was the lack of other boats and divers, we saw other divers only twice during our 1st week on our first ever visit here, and they were going deep. The muck diving we did on Mabul and Kapalai was fascinating, we had not done this before and did not want our dives to end.


Chromodoris reticulata	Chromodoris willani	Chromodoris willani	Chromodoris willani	Chromodoris willani

Chromodoris willani	Clownfish	Clownfish	Clownfish	Clownfish

Thanks to Eddie, Gerry and Marshall for a fantastic week of diving. We have since been to Seaventures platform a further 5 occasions, 3 times in 2004, and twice in 2005 such is our fascination with the little critters under the "Rig". A special thanks to May for organizing our trips in Malaysia, and also to Marshall for all his help over Christmas 2004 when we needed it most (he will know what i mean). The photos on the following pages were all taken underneath or around Seaventures platform.

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