You're quite welcome. Yes, it had to be nearly 200ft to the skeletons, because I tied off my cavern reel at the cave entrance & know it is 140 ft long. My cave instructor went on to see the skeletons about another 50ft or so. I stayed on the end of my reel as he instructed me to do. I never got to see the turtle skeletons.
Boreo Divers Mabul Resort is where we stayed. Very nice resort, though the food left a little to be disired (but then, I'm a spoiled American). The staff was fantastic! The resort has a most awsome house reef! I saw my first ever octopus in the first 5 min. of our first check- out dive there. Facing the old oil rig Seaventure, if you dive going to your right near, the closest old pier or maybe just past it, there is a small coral head teeming with Mandarin fish & near that there is a flamboyant cuttlefish that hangs out. He looks like a living LED sign. VERY COOL! There are also usually a couple of turtles, cuttlefish, octopi, alagator fish, lion fish, nudibranches, Manta shrimps,.... Just so much to see. We saw something different on every dive on the House Reef right there. The only way I have been able to describe Sipadan (the shallow reefs anyway). Imagine the most stuffed aquarium you can imagine of fish of every size, shape & color,........ for as far as you can see. Expect to get tired of seeing turtles (J/K) around Sipadan, they're everywhere, also lots of white & black tip reef sharks, bumphead parrotfish. Watch for the large triggerfish. They can be VERY territorial, especially when nesting. They will attack. I have a small chunk missing from one of my fins from an encounter with one.
