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“The head person, Tom, was a delight with a funny personality and wonderful attitude. ”
The 29m liveaboard, M/V Celebes Explorer, is the only vessel who schedules year round diving cruises to the best sites in Sipadan, Malaysia. Sipadan is home to thousands of species of flora and fauna, many of which are found exclusively here. Celebes Explorer offers 8 basic cabins equipped with private bathroom and spacious wardrobe. Guests may relax in the lounge with mini bar and the spacious, partially covered sun deck with wooden chairs, tables and a beach mattress.
The food served onboard is a mix of Malay and Chinese influences, served buffet style. The MV Celebes Explorer offers guests up to 4 dives per day. Dives are typically relaxing drift dives and remarkable wall dives. A Celebes Explorer sea safari in Malaysia’s Sipadan takes you to places that are best visited via liveaboard. Regarded as one of the world's best dive areas with hundreds of coral gardens, sloping reefs, and unforgettable underwater landscapes, divers are guaranteed to see thousands of vibrant fish and corals.
A Celebes Explorer Malaysia liveaboard diving holiday is a fantastic adventure. Reserve yours today.
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Included: VAT
Excluded: Dive and snorkel equiptment rental (full set approx RM 200 per day), Nitrox (USD 17 per fill), Semporna jetty fee (MYR 10.60 per person), Sipadan permit fee - MYR 42.40 per dive day (from August 2018 this will increase to RM 148.40 per dive day), International and Domestic Air tickets, Alcoholic and canned beverages Transfer outside recommended flights (approx USD 150 - car for 5 guests)
Book now, pay later: You can easily place your booking online. We will then hold the spaces for you and you can confirm with a payment later.
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Celebes Explorer Reviews
- 7.2 Good
- Vessel 5.1
- Crew 6.9
- Food 8.1
- Diving 8.7
- Value 6.9
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- 9.6 Exceptional
- carolyn P
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United States
Wonderful diving and superb crew with friendly, uplifting attitude
The food was plentiful and delicious with lots of seafood. The guide was good at spotting critters in the ocean and was a good photographer when he took pictures of me while diving. All the staff were very friendly and most learned your name. The head person, Tom, was a delight with a funny personality and wonderful attitude. He made everything such fun! Cabin 3 still has some funny smells however. Grab one of the others instead!
- Recommended for
- Diving, food and crew members
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- 8.8 Fabulous
- YuenMee W
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Netherlands
Great fun with a good crew and some great divings.
Dive @ sipadan ;-), @ baraccuda point, awesome dive when seeing a group of sharks (more than 6) swimming arround. Also the jackfishes and baraccuda group in circle was pretty amazing.
- Recommended for
- Friendly crew, dive sites, people
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- 7.6 Good
- Vincent C
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France
Unique façon de découvrir réellement Sipadan
Barracuda point
- Recommended for
- Faune sous marine, guide expérimenté et flexible, convivialite du groupe
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- 7.6 Good
- Vincent C
- France
Unique way to truly experience Sipadan
Barracuda point
- Recommended for
- Underwater wildlife, experienced and flexible guide, group friendliness
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- 7.6 Good
- Kenneth M
- United States
Celebes Live Aboard
Trip was a good value, you get to dive Sipadan four times most every day. Resorts in the area will likely let you go every third day or so. The boat needed some maintenance work, though, the generator cut out several times during the week I was on board. Boat crew and divemasters did a good job. One thing to note, though, is that night diving is not permitted at present due to curfew. (The itinerary I received said night dives at Mabul would be included, but this is not the case at the moment...)
- Recommended for
- Daily Sipadan Diving
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- 8.4 Very good
- GuangHui C
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Australia
Great liveaboard Experience, made possible with the great crew
For me this was my first ever liveaboard experience, and I must say I'm hungry for the next one. The Celebes Explorer, although a bit old and run down, is more than certainly made up for by the liveliness and hospitality of both the boat crew and Divemaster Basher. He was knowledgeable about the dive spots we visited everyday and made sure we were able to best experience the various sights around Sipadan island. Three square meals a day were provided, no complaints and it was a nice touch having fresh cut fruit provided with every meal. Be prepared to ratchet down your plates when eating during choppy seas! Also, bring your hard drive with movies on it to share with the crew, as they have a penchant for good old action movies whilst eating meals. Other than that, a very good experience aboard the boat and would love to return again. Also, email communication with the Dive operator was superb, Tania was able to respond in a timely matter to whatever queries I had about the trip. Highly recommended!
- Recommended for
- Dive Master, Food, Adherence to schedule
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- 8.8 Fabulous
- Angela W
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China
A great week of Sipadan daily
The boat is currently under maintenance, so we've been arranged into hotel accommodation with daily dive trip to Sipadan. Overall it's still convenient and comfort. A week of 3 dives daily in Sipadan has been gorgeous.
- Recommended for
- big school of Bumphead parrotfishes, barracuda shoal, nudibranchs
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- 7.2 Good
- adria G
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Spain
Amazing Sipadan!
One of the best ways to dive in Sipadan!
- Recommended for
- Divemaster guide - Area - value for money
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- 6.4 Review score
- Siu Cong M
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Hong Kong
celebes explorer under repair
1) the experience in south point is magnificent where v see a school of giant humphead fish passed by, high visibiliy, no other divers 2) in my 4 days daily trip to sipadan, 3 days are grouped with other day trip divers which limits our dives to 3 only. in view of the charge, we are expecting 4 dives each on the 2nd and 3rd day
- Recommended for
- because celebes explorer under repair, therefore accepted the alternate arrangement of daily trip to sipadan and stay in hotel in semporna
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- 8.0 Very good
- Robert S
- United States
AWESOME dive guide but the livaboard boat the celebes was falling apart!
we were SO dissappointed to find out that there was to be NO NIGHT DIVES allowed AT ALL in the last two years, you would think that they would say something about this on ANY website, but i guess because of the kidnappings, then it would just scare tourists off. but if you are into ANY night diving, we wish we could get a comp trip because of THAT idssappointtment. alone as the site still promises night dives. even though the boat was belching rust chunks out of the smokestack, and it was puking gobs of oil which caused oil slicks larger than the exxon valdez spill which we had to keep outrunning, we were told that there was a new one being built. ready in two years! the generators were turned off about 3 times a day and you had to re start the air con every time. the dive runabout boat was in the same condition of being ready to take a dive. or a dump....but the guides were awesome and the boatman was great and professional. the condition and maintenance was deplorable. we had to walk in a pool of piss water everytime we went to the bathroom because the ship was overweighted on one side where it did not drain. but if you want to dive dive dive the sipadan sites, you are in for a treat we went every morning to pick up the flag that announces we HAVE A PERMIT TO DIVE 3-4 DIVES PER DAY!!! the food!!! it always smelled really great, but then they added too much sauce to drown out the garlic flavor that you could smell in the beginning stages... the cleavered chicken left a lot to be desired. the chicken ALWAYS almost was cleavered and then battered or put in the soup and if the back ribs excite you then you got no bones to pick! they end up in your mouth and throat. if they coul dONLY stop cooking the food until it is burned to non recognition we would have been happier. but we love to dive so all the rest is piddly. this is NOT a comfort boat! but the staff is very freindly and obliging! and raf , the dive guide was super at finding all sorts of
- Recommended for
- RAF the dive guide was great, the boatman was super and the food was the same but cooked different and disguised with lots of sauce.
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