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A PARADOX, which seems absurd at first, proves true in the end. Clement Lee, Sabah’s top dog dive guru, cited the case of Sipadan.
“Strangely, and ironically, Sipadan was saved twice by moving in and moving out,” he quipped.
“Before moving in there were fish dynamiting, but once dive operation started in 1983, fish bombing stopped!”
“So why did we decide to vacate Sipadan in 2004?” he asked. “The environment was saved from disaster after vacating the island in 2004.”
At a cost of multiple millions to Borneo Divers, however, without a sen in compensation, Clement claimed.
Between 1983 and 2004, Sipadan rapidly climbed to world fame as a top 10 dive site in the world, which however got the State Government to worry about something.
By 2003, the State Government was sending out feelers to put a break to rising man-made structures
Published on: Sunday, July 11, 2021
By: Kan Yaw Chong
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Pulau Sipadan – note dark water foreground, known as the ‘Big Drop’.
FROM mountain high to ocean deep. There is no fight, is there? Sabah beat them all, be it in mountain high or ocean deep.
I think Tengku Adlin meant that 100pc in his heydays as Chairman of Sabah Tourism Board. Here’s voice for the ocean deep which cannot speak for itself.
Everybody knows Clement pioneered diving in Sabah along with Randy Davies, the late Ron Holland and Samson Shak in 1983, from which he retired in 2012.
Resurfacing with stunning pictures of Sabah’s birds, this dive patriarch makes a perfect conduit for what “From Mountain High to Ocean Deep” means.