http://divehappy.com/borneo/borneo-diving-mabul/ a personal guide to scuba diving in Thailand and South East Asia Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://divehappy.com/borneo/borneo-diving-mabul/#comment-17 Sipadan Island Reef Disaster - divehappy.com: Scuba Diving In Thailand and South East Asia Mon, 22 May 2006 03:38:03 +0000 http://divehappy.com/borneo/borneo-diving-mabul/#comment-17 [...] Divers already pay a premium to visit Sipadan and other Borneo dive destinations, and rightly so - but if this money isn’t being used to properly manage these dive sites, and the government authorises such grossly unevironmentally friendly schemes such as this restaurant, then it shows little respect for genuinely preserving Sipadan. Given that there are two other full-blown resorts only 15 minutes boat ride away from Sipadan, at Kapalai and Mabul, I simply cannot accept the necessity for a restaurant on Sipadan itself.  [...] […] Divers already pay a premium to visit Sipadan and other Borneo dive destinations, and rightly so - but if this money isn’t being used to properly manage these dive sites, and the government authorises such grossly unevironmentally friendly schemes such as this restaurant, then it shows little respect for genuinely preserving Sipadan. Given that there are two other full-blown resorts only 15 minutes boat ride away from Sipadan, at Kapalai and Mabul, I simply cannot accept the necessity for a restaurant on Sipadan itself.  […]

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