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Location: Mabul (Malaysia)
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Top Dive Sites (make sure you dive these!)
1 Oil Rig With 3 votes(s).
2 Paradise 1 With 1 votes(s).
3 Old House Reef With 1 votes(s).

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Reviews:

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Visited Comments
May 2008 Also saw clown frogfish, snake eel, pipefish, horned bannerfish, stonefish, lionfish, nudibranch, porcelain crabs, spotface moray!
Date posted: 12-Jun-2008 06:51 by: samjay23
October 2007 Only did one dive in Mabul but it was really fun. The Old House Reef is the local resort's attempt at an artificial reef. The big highlight are the frogfish.. they were everywhere on the artificial reef (always on the top 'rung' of the scafolding).. they really make up for the fact that there is almost nothing else there! I would go back -- Just for the frogfish! We also saw a totally massive Queensland Grouper hanging out there.. but it was an isolated fish.
Date posted: 24-Oct-2007 11:07 by: southernseas
June 2006 One of the best places i have been. The site is a haven of macro (muck) diving. everything you see in the rest of the world in miniture, full of juvenile species
Date posted: 07-Nov-2006 19:29 by: Merman
June 2006 Great place for small stuff - leaf fish, frog fish, mandarinfish. Marvellous in combination with Sipadan.
Date posted: 16-Oct-2006 14:25 by: owenk77
September 2005 Like diving in an aquarium. Amazing diversity. Can pretty much guarantee the weirdest and rarest fish on every dive. Huge shoals of baracuda. Lion fish, frog fish, crocodile & scorpion fish. Lost of very small, multi-coloured sea slugs. Tiny manadrin fish seen on night dive.
Date posted: 15-Oct-2006 11:57 by: Paul
March 2005 Overcrowded. Good for macro, but too many divers. resorts very plush. Day-trips to Sipadan
Date posted: 07-Jul-2005 22:03 by: Dee
May 2004 Wonderful for macro. Many unusual critters: frogfish, cuttlefish, juvenile batfish (black with orange rim), mandarin fish, crocodile fish, lots of nudi-branchs (shell-less snails), ghost pipefish
Date posted: 02-Jun-2005 05:53 by: Mary


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