1 Day Scuba Diving Program

Our main diving venue within Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park (TARP), located just 8 min boat ride from the Sutera Harbor Resort.

The fun however does not stop here, we love to explore, so our Dive Club regularly journeys to farther afield locations such as Pulau Tiga and Pulau Mengalum, these special trips are available on request and follow a different itinerary to that given below.

For beginners to the sport of Scuba Diving and professionals alike TARP offers a great deal - Tropical waters abundant with diverse and fascinating marine life, sheltered reefs with year round dive access, idilic island paradise settings to snorkel and while away surface intervals - all this within view of the KK city centre and Mt Kinabalu.

Mamutik and Sulug Island are often our base for the day with all dive sites minutes from the tropical island paradise.

Dive sites within the park are predominantly sloping coral reefs, mangrove areas and sand slopes with plenty of fish life and macro subjects - ideal for photographers both beginners and those more advanced.

Two of our favorite dives sites are North Sulug Reef and Mamutik Shore. The former directly faces the South China Sea, a sloping reef to 25m with some stunning corals coral blocks and schools of snapper, pufferfish, lots of butterfly and angelfish, the occasional turtle and sometimes home to a handful of Frogfish.

Mamutik Shore Dive is a true "Muck Dive" and nearly always produces a few macro surprises and photographers can be sure of finding interesting subjects not worrying too much about bottom time as its pretty shallow with a maximum depth of 12m. Recent discoveries include, Cockatoo Waspfish, Cuttlefish, Robust Ghostpipefish, Stonefish and demon Stingers.

Night dives are very popular, various crustaceans, octopus and seahorses are some of the creatures to be found at night rather than during the day.



Daily Dive Itinerary


08.15 hrs  Hotel pickup (KK City)  transfer to Sutera Harbour Jetty
09.00 hrs Boat to Mamutik Island
10.00 hrs 1st Boat Dive
11.00 hrs Tea/coffee surface interval on Mamutik
12.00 hrs 2nd Boat Dive
13.15 hrs Lunch
14.00 hrs 3rd dive - shore
15.30 hrs Boat Transfer to Sutera Harbour
15.40 hrs Return to Hotel

Program Includes:
Full diving equipment, park entry fees, boat and land transfers, lunch and refreshments - there are no extra hidden charges.




Underwater Camera Rental

We offer a range of rental cameras, both still and motion. We also offer a digital photo downloading service. for more information please see our Photo and Video section.

For the beginner to advanced level underwater photographer we recommend the Cannon A640 with Cannon U/W housing a 10 megapixel camera with fully controllable functions.

Rental Costs:

Cost - 1st Day MYR 130 - GBP 20.00 approx
Everyday thereafter MYR 110 - GBP 16.50 approx per day 
Including photo download to cd.

For booking information please contact us

For information on Padi Courses please visit the Dive Courses link to the right.



If you want to learn more about our underwater world, why not enroll on a Conservation Program or try your hand at Underwater Photography.


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