I AM a diver and I love the sea. The finest dive sites in Sabah have got to be none other than in the islands around Semporna.
During my recent dives there, it was disheartening to see floating plastic wares in the water.
From afar, they looked like jellyfish. I just hope that the turtles would not see them as yummy food.
Mataking Island was an eyesore with plastic bottles and white polystyrene lunch boxes decorating the beaches.
Plastic pollution is not new and it is currently one of the most tenacious environmental matters as the rapid increasing manufacture of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s capacity to deal with them.
Plastic wares offer cheap convenience for their usages, and these have led to a throw-away culture among the users.
Tour operators in Semporna offer a lot of packages for the visitors; scuba diving, island hopping, snorkelling and hiking.
These packages are usually inclusive of food and drinks f