Layang-Layang Island

Layang-Layang Island

The Isle of Layang-Layang is situated in the South China Sea, approximately 300 km north off the coast of Sabah. The surrounding seabeds offer excellent dive sites, characterized by shallow depths with extraordinary coral gardens teeming with reef microfauna, full of steep drop-offs into the abyss and the presence of open sea species.

Dive Site.
a) ‘Gorgonian Forest’;
b) ‘Wreck Point’;

‘Gorgonian Forest’This site is characterized by a strong current along the wall, thus creating a visibility of more than 50 metres. The dive begins on a shallow seabed about 5 metres deep, from the drop-off, which then plunges steeply to about 40 metres.
The seabed is covered with bommie and coral towers, and a forest of gorgonians.

Marine life here includes the scarlet whip corals, barrel sponges, surgeonfish, barracudas, batfish, bumphead parrotfish, butterflyfish, dogtooth tuna, grey reef sharks, fox sharks, large stingrays, nurse shark, bigeye trevallies, whale sharks, and leopard sharks.

Wreck Point’

This site takes its name from an old freighter, of which only a few scrap of iron remains. Instead, of doing a wreck dive, this site offers a relaxing and medium depth tour of a coral garden.

Marine life here includes the dogtooth tuna, bigeye trevallies, nurse shark, lettuce corals, parrotfish, butterfly fish, Moorish idols, batfish, ocean pikes, enormous giant clams, peacock flaunders, hawkfish, and barracudas.

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