Diving the Rice Bowl Wreck

Wreck Diving Day Trip, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Borneo

Borneo Dream ran a wreck diving day trip to the Usukan Bay WWII wrecks last week.

The Usukan Bay wrecks are located 31nm NNE of Kota Kinabalu. We set off nice and early and 7:30am for our two hour boat transfer onboard Borneo Dream 3. The weather and sea conditions were good and we made good progress doing a steady 15nm per hour.

Friendly Bat Fish

We arrived at the Rice Bowl Wreck for our first dive. The shot line was accurately dropped, with expert skippering by Joanne. The visibility and current were checked by Billy, the lead dive guide (who was diving using an APD Evolution Closed Circuit Rebreather). The six divers were then dropped upstream of the surface current and drifted on to the shot line ready for their first descent.

During their first dive the divers saw the largest Group we have seen along the West Coast of Sabah – it was around 1.2 metres long! As usual, there were large shoals of Yellow Snapper, friendly Bat Fish, Moray Eels, Lobster, Nudibranches, Shrimps, Moorish Idol and lots more. The resident Nurse Sharks were not around for this diving day trip. The second dive was just as enjoyable with the large Group still hovering around the bow of the wreck. So another great day diving the Usukan Bay wrecks, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo!

Thanks to Kelvin Roberts for sharing his photos from diving the wrecks with Borneo Dream.

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