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Diving in Malaysia: Tioman Island
You have decided to travel to Malaysia or are considering it? One of your activities to go for or even the main activity you want to do is diving?
Then this blog entry is a good one to read. I will tell you about my diving experience on Tioman Island, Malaysia.
Remember, my feedback is subjective, and always in comparison to what I have experienced so far, but I try to base it on a scale from 0-10 (very bad - very good)
General…
Travel time: August 11th - September 2nd 2017
Route region: East coast and Borneo
City route: Kuala Lumpur (also called KL for locals), Tioman Island, Cherating, Dungun (Tenggol Island), Kota Kinabalu (Borneo), Mabul (Borneo, Sabah, Semporna Archipelago)
Feedback on travel time: 7 points, quite good, except of KL where there are a couple of Monsoon rains. Apart from that, always good weather (but clouds every now and then are normal). Note: during this time the Malaysians have school holiday, so has Singapore. A lot is booked out, so you do might want to book some dives or schools in advance to be site. At lest check. Also considering accompanied. A lot is booked out and super spontaneous ‘let’s see when we get there’ might not make you super happy or get you far unless your expectations are well managed by yourself upfront.
Tioman Island Diving:
- Tekek is the ‘main city’ on the island. There are 2-3 more cities that I did not go or heard a lot about from others so can’t really say a lot. But for sure there are also other dive schools in the other cities.
- Tekek has a few dive schools (like 3-4) but except of one all were booked out. As I did not make a reservation I had to deal with the dive school that had availability: East Divers Tioman Island
- It turns out the school gets 10 points! Why? It’s a small school, great equipment, small groups, very flexible, very accurate, personal, conscious about safety and education of students/ divers. Also the dive masters were very nice and regarding diving of good quality under and above water. Also, as it was not as popular as another one in Tekek, so it did not feel so hyped and so busy, but rather unique.
- Courses: I did my advanced open water with them and it went really great. I saw many people also doing open water courses and it seemed also there very good.
- Price: 10 points. The school just meets the average for the advanced course. 5 dives, 1000 RM/ ~ 200 €. Considering the average fun dive in Malaysia is about 150-175 RM/ ~ 30-35 €.
- Dive sites: points 8. Reason for 8 points are the fact that you can do shore dives and see beautiful and nicely treated coral and already nice fish just after a couple of meters. They offer e.g. deep diving, wreck diving, boat and shore diving. Visibility was OK, probably approx 10 meter. Another highlight was a dive at around 18 meter with 6 sharks (black tip reef sharks) that just constantly kept being with us for the whole dive circling around us. There was minor current at the dive sites we went to.
Questions? Comments? Let me know
Cheers Karin
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Diving in Malaysia: Tioman Island
You have decided to travel to Malaysia or are considering it? One of your activities to go for or even the main activity you want to do is diving?
Then this blog entry is a good one to read. I will tell you about my diving experience on Tioman Island, Malaysia.
Remember, my feedback is subjective, and always in comparison to what I have experienced so far, but I try to base it on a scale from 0-10 (very bad - very good)
General…
Travel time: August 11th - September 2nd 2017
Route region: East coast and Borneo
City route: Kuala Lumpur (also called KL for locals), Tioman Island, Cherating, Dungun (Tenggol Island), Kota Kinabalu (Borneo), Mabul (Borneo, Sabah, Semporna Archipelago)
Feedback on travel time: 7 points, quite good, except of KL where there are a couple of Monsoon rains. Apart from that, always good weather (but clouds every now and then are normal). Note: during this time the Malaysians have school holiday, so has Singapore. A lot is booked out, so you do might want to book some dives or schools in advance to be site. At lest check. Also considering accompanied. A lot is booked out and super spontaneous ‘let’s see when we get there’ might not make you super happy or get you far unless your expectations are well managed by yourself upfront.
Tioman Island Diving:
- Tekek is the ‘main city’ on the island. There are 2-3 more cities that I did not go or heard a lot about from others so can’t really say a lot. But for sure there are also other dive schools in the other cities.
- Tekek has a few dive schools (like 3-4) but except of one all were booked out. As I did not make a reservation I had to deal with the dive school that had availability: East Divers Tioman Island
- It turns out the school gets 10 points! Why? It’s a small school, great equipment, small groups, very flexible, very accurate, personal, conscious about safety and education of students/ divers. Also the dive masters were very nice and regarding diving of good quality under and above water. Also, as it was not as popular as another one in Tekek, so it did not feel so hyped and so busy, but rather unique.
- Courses: I did my advanced open water with them and it went really great. I saw many people also doing open water courses and it seemed also there very good.
- Price: 10 points. The school just meets the average for the advanced course. 5 dives, 1000 RM/ ~ 200 €. Considering the average fun dive in Malaysia is about 150-175 RM/ ~ 30-35 €.
- Dive sites: points 8. Reason for 8 points are the fact that you can do shore dives and see beautiful and nicely treated coral and already nice fish just after a couple of meters. They offer e.g. deep diving, wreck diving, boat and shore diving. Visibility was OK, probably approx 10 meter. Another highlight was a dive at around 18 meter with 6 sharks (black tip reef sharks) that just constantly kept being with us for the whole dive circling around us. There was minor current at the dive sites we went to.
Questions? Comments? Let me know
Cheers Karin
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