South Point

South Point sits at the southernmost tip of Sipadan, Malaysia's only oceanic island, positioned at 04°06′N 118°37′E where the Celebes Sea meets the reef edge. The seabed drops away from a wide shallow plateau into a sheer limestone wall that falls 600 metres vertically into open ocean, making it the island's premier site for deep pelagic encounters and dawn drift diving.

The terrain begins with a wide plateau before stepping down to a prominent ledge at around 20 metres, where the reef ends abruptly in the vertical wall. Maximum depth reached on a dive is 40 metres, though the wall itself continues far below. The shallow reef top above the ledge carries healthy hard coral and rubble habitat, providing a sharp contrast to the blue-water wall below.

South Point is best known for large aggregations of grey reef sharks patrolling the drop-off and for early-morning encounters with schools of scalloped hammerhead sharks deep in the blue. Green turtles and hawksbill turtles rest on the shallow reef top, and blue-ringed octopus move through the rubble in that same zone. The first dive of the morning at dawn is the primary window for hammerhead sightings before thermoclines shift and sharks retreat deeper. Visibility runs 20 to 30 metres and is at its best between March and October, with water temperature between 26 and 30°C; noticeable cold thermoclines are felt at depth.