Course overview

Take your first breath underwater with the SSI Try Scuba experience at Sipadan, a guided introduction on the calm, shallow reefs off Mabul Island. With an instructor at your side you learn a handful of basic skills and then dive among corals, turtles and tropical fish, no certification or experience needed. It is a simple, safe taste of diving in one of the planet's most famous reef regions.

What you’ll learn

• Breathe underwater on scuba for the first time
• Use the mask, fins, regulator and BCD
• Clear your mask and recover your regulator
• Equalise and descend gently with your instructor
• Control your position in shallow water
• Follow basic safety rules and hand signals

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• No experience or certification required
• Comfortable in the water
• Basic health questionnaire (medical clearance if any condition applies)

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Try scuba

   Equipment and safety briefing, basic-skills practice in shallow water, then a guided dive on the Mabul house reef among corals, turtles and reef fish.

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