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A PARADOX, which seems absurd at first, proves true in the end. Clement Lee, Sabah’s top dog dive guru, cited the case of Sipadan.
“Strangely, and ironically, Sipadan was saved twice by moving in and moving out,” he quipped.
“Before moving in there were fish dynamiting, but once dive operation started in 1983, fish bombing stopped!”
“So why did we decide to vacate Sipadan in 2004?” he asked. “The environment was saved from disaster after vacating the island in 2004.”
At a cost of multiple millions to Borneo Divers, however, without a sen in compensation, Clement claimed.
Between 1983 and 2004, Sipadan rapidly climbed to world fame as a top 10 dive site in the world, which however got the State Government to worry about something.
By 2003, the State Government was sending out feelers to put a break to rising man-made structures