Sabah Parks concedes twin blue holes discovery to local diver
Sabah Parks director DrJamili Nais and local dive instructor, Glen Hapirulla shake hands at a press conference on the discovery of twin blue holes in Lahad Datu, at Riverson in Kota Kinabalu, today. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Irwan Majid, March 15,2019.
A DISPUTE over who discovered the twin blue holes in Lahad Datu’s Darvel Bay ended today with Sabah Parks conceding the find to local dive instructor Glen Hapirullah. Sabah Parks director Dr Jamili Nais said while there were many divers in the area, it was “Glen and his team who had taken aerial photos and found the blue holes first”.
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