Hanging Gardens

Hanging Gardens is one of the best dives of sipadan. It's great for snorkeling and underwater photography.

The reef wall is very colourful, covered in soft corals, seafans and large barrel sponges.
The coral gives home to a great variety of smaller fish including damselfish, chromis, sweetlips on black coral, clownfish, lobsters in cracks, tiny sea slugs, etc.

In one dive, you can often spot 50+ turtles along with reef sharks, whitetips and a big school of Bumphead parrotfishes.

Depth: 5-40m (16-131 feet)

Visibility: 30 metres (100 feet)

Location: South of Sipadan island.

	Dive site	Min depth	Max depth	Level	Dive Type
1	Barracuda Point	5m 16ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Wall, Reef
2	Coral gardens	10m 33ft	23m 75ft	OW	Wall, Reef
3	Hanging Gardens	5m 16ft	40m 131ft	OW	Wall, Reef, Sharks
4	Lobster lairs	25m 82ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Wall, Reef, Big Fishes
5	North Point	25m 82ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Drift, Wall, Reef, Sharks
6	South Point	20m 65ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Wall, Reef
7	Staghorn Crest	20m 65ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Wall, Reef, Sharks
8	The Jetty	3m 10ft	40m 131ft	OW	Wall, Reef
9	Turtle Cavern	14m 46ft	23m 75ft	AOW	Cave, Reef
10	Turtle Patch	5m 16ft	12m 39ft	OW	Wall, Reef, Sharks
11	Turtle Tomb	17m 56ft	23m 75ft	Divemaster	Cave
12	West Ridge	18m 59ft	40m 131ft	OW	Wall, Reef, Sharks
13	Whitetip Avenue	17m 56ft	40m 131ft	OW	Wall, Reef, Sharks
14	Midreef	5m 16ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Wall, Reef
15	The Drop Off	5m 16ft	40m 131ft	AOW	Wall, Reef

 

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