60min, 21 meters
Not bad, since most of the structures at Mabul and Kapalai islands are built on water, it cant come as a surprise that some of them have sunk over time. This house reef has plenty of sunken reef houses, boats and all kind of junk that the locals have "sacrified" to the gods of the sea. All this provides great hiding places for the big groupers, sweetlips and jacks who have decided to occupy the area. The big fish really don't have so many places to hide, and even they are big, they are not exactly the attention whores you might expect. Quite the opposite, they prefer to stay in hiding too.
For example, I penetrate a small shipwreck and swim around the hull. Only when I decide to have a look at the top part, I realize there are three gigantic groupers chilling about a meter above me. These guys are all 1 meter plus fish and I am indeed happy I didn't bring any spearfisher with me. The biggest of them all is however not inside the wreck but a potato cod chilling inside one of the used to be houses, looking wrencky but reminding me more of a cow underwater than anything else.
A big variety of large fish here, not shy of divers, which makes this place pretty interesting besides the unusual structures which certainly kept quite a few secrets from us to be revealed the next time. Maybe!
This was btw my first dive as an official divemaster, having recently received the id number from Padi.
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