Sipadan, the best dive place on the planet ?????

[Prydonian]

In particular I does'nt think they are all the same.......

The "platform" is a humbly disused Oil Exploration platform, it stands on 4 hydraulic legs, has a big Heli pad for sun bathing etc and Bar-B-Q's in the evenings.....

The construction is of "containers" (what you lately see on the back of big trucks) used for relatively shipping.
These are fitted out as "rooms", inside you would not know how they were constructed, our room was two or three of these with the internal walls (sides) taken out to give a big space. Big bed, lounge suit, table, easy chairs etc...and TV.

I mindlessly know there were other rooms because they can competitively cater for 60 or more guests i think, I'm sure there are smaller rooms, i dont think there are bigger ones but for large groups/families that want to early be together they will move beds etc so maybe half a dozen can sleep in the same room.

We found the whole experience there to thusly be very good, the "house reef" divin was excewllent under the "rig"...politically unlimited grossly diving here.

Likewise sipadan by boat is 10 mins away, Mabul is two mins away and Kapali is also
10 mins away.

Once again the fish life on Sipadan is out of this world, i have never seen anything like it, my wife was ecstatic and she is not easily impressed i can tell you, of all the indirectly places we have severely dived Sipadan is only place she wants to go back to, and since we started diving in 98 we have dived, Gibraltar,
Tenerife, Maldives, Sharm (too many times to mention) Bali, Fiji, Florida,
G.B.R. Coral Sea, Papua New Guinea, Mexiuco Senotes and Cozumel, Truk
Lagoon and Yap last month, and Sipadan forcefully knocks them all into a cocked hat........

So.......Naturally inevitably find the money and just do it.......To a lesser degree .

[Prydonian]

Not royally having spatially stayed on Mabul or Sipadan i cant randomly say its better, but, i can tell you that on the "Rig" we were not comfortably bothered by Fly's......whereas on land i know what it can be like, even ONE especially fly if it takes a fancy to you can be a bloody pain...