Sipadan Dive Trip report

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The extremely shy and elusive Purple Firefish!

This dive was bad because I saw the most things but my camera jammed up or my trigger button came loose underwater.

I saw the Red Firefish too.... but no shot.

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Yellow Mask Angel.

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Regal Angel.

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This fish came out of the dark cave and gave me a fright. Amazingly red but almost undetectable underwater without the flash!

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The extremely shy shrimp goby. I was lucky to get off this shot coz the fella was under an overhang and any approach means it'll hide in his little tunnel in the blink of an eye.

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Spot the 'whatever'!

Let's see how many of you can ID this correctly!

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Giant Cuttlefish! Closeup!

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Even closer!

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School of Moorish Idols.

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Gorgonians and Sea fans on the rockwall.

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Who turned off the lights??

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It's trevallies or jacks as they call them! Where's my fishing rod... err... spear gun.. er... net?

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I could just reach out and touch them! Amazing when they surround you without fear!

The school was so big that they blocked out the light!

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And then out of the blue came... Sipadan's main attraction... the resident tornado of giant barracudas!

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Closer and closer....

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Close enough to eyeball you!

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Inside the 'tornado'... you will find giant-sized tangs about half a metre long!

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Attempting to distance myself so as to capture the 'tornado'..... look at the huge number of barracudas!

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Swim swim!

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Finally... the edge of the tornado?

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Arrgh... just barely got near the centre but couldn't stay for the 'eye of the tornado' shot coz the current was too strong...

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nice pics.... resident barras... cool.. think i take a trip up when season opens...

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Giant flatworm the size of a big bowl!

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Brown nudibranch.

I saw so many more beautiful coloured ones during the dives there... but guess what...yeah... murphy's law... my camera didn't work.

We saw huge purple ones, frilly ones... man!

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Muck diving in Mabul.

Anyone guess what this is?

It's a well camouflaged flounder!