Thursday, April 12, 2007

More about Tioman


The island is about 24 miles from the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, with three of its peaks rising to about 1,000 metres and visible far out in the South China Sea. Much of its 44 square miles is covered with tropical rain forest. A narrow coastal strip is partly cultivated, and on it are found small villages and settlements, with a local resident population.

Tioman has some of the best dive sites in the South Asian region, With 18 dive sites to choose from. They can offer exiting dive sites for newcomers as well as more challenging dive spots for experienced divers. In the close range, there are 12 spots where you can go to on your daily dive trips.

Waters around the island can have visibilty ranges between 8m-25m and temperature of 26C-32C.The underwater landscape is of granite rock, a perfect ground for coral growth which provides shelter and food for fishes and other marine life. Tioman offers you a large diversity of hard, soft corals and spounge corals. The shallow, calm waters of dive sites near Tioman, such as Pirate Reef and Renggis Island, are ideal for training and less experienced divers, as well as photography.

Explore the swim-throughs at Labas along the dense fan coral garden at Fan Canyon or enjoy the soft corals on one of our wrecks. With extensive coral reefs teeming with a wide variety of tropical fish large and small, Tioman also has over a dozen wrecks offering something for every level of divers.

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