Deep Six is located on the Northern end of
Similans island 7; as the name already indicates you can dive here till
over 60 meters deep. The dramatic underwater boulders have created
lovely swimthroughs, tunnels and canyons. But in the soft coral garden
you will find the biggest gorgonias of the Similans. With an occasional
manta ray gliding by, this is a very nice divesite. Maximum dive! depth
40 meter, medium to strong current.
West of Eden comprises giant granite boulders that create nice canyons,
with walls covered with colourful soft corals and giant sea fans. Some
areas are characterised by rubble and sand slope falling to a depth of
30 to 35 metres. The shallow is a fringing reef and is home to many reef
fish, and have stacked granite boulders covered with hard corals, soft
corals, gorgonians and feather stars. This is a favourite site for local
guides as it has both types of Similan sites in one place. It´s a great
place to see Ribbon Eels, Frogfish, Ghost Pipefish, Seamoths and many
other colourful critters. Maximum divedepth 35 meter, medium to strong current.
Princess Bay Here we find a sandy bottom with smaller
coral blocks. Nothing too exiting, good for a nightdive, especially the
Western part of the bay. Maximum depth 15 meter, slight current.
Barracuda Point This divesite, also called Anita's
Reef, starts at a depth of 6 meters and slopes down till around 28
meters. Coral gardens, soft and hard corals we will find everywhere in
the sand and they look lovely. Here we will find all varieties reeffish.
Maximum depth 28 meter, slight current.
Hideaway Bay or Hideaway Reef is a lovely
divesite for a checkdive or nightdive. With a depth of 20 meters maximum
this reef has some beautiful coralblocks on offer. Covered in soft
corals the colours are magnificent and one of the best places for macro
photographers with different species of ghost pipefish. In the sandy
bottom lots of garden eels, sticking their heads of the sand together
with the Thai flatfish to feed in the current. On the reef itself lots
of surgeonfish, butterflies and porcupines. Maximum depth 20 meter,
slight current.
Honeymoon Bay is a lovely bay situated on
Similans island number 4. With an excellent beach this is the perfect
place to go snorkeling or a sunsetdive on the gently till 24 meters
sloping reef. In the shallow part you can spot octopus, crab and mantis
shrimp hunting for food. With and occasional hawksbill seaturtle and
whitetip reefshark the reef will keep you occupied all through the dive.
Maximum depth 24 meter, slight current.
Bird Rock Situated on the South side of Similans island
number 4 has big boulders till 40 meters. Not much marine life, but
lovely boulder formations and swimthroughs. Maximum depth 40 meter,
medium current.
Shark Fin Reef From the surface we can see three rocks
breaking the watersurface. The dive you can make on either side of this
extensive rockformation. The Southwest side consists mainly of a steep
drop off. On the Southeastern side of this formation is a large
swimthrough through which you can reach the other side of the reef.
There we will find lionfish and scorpionfish in sheltered corners,
surgeonfish and a great variety of other reeffish. The corals are mainly
hard corals. Maximum depth 40 meter, medium to strong current.
Boulder City is completely submerged with
two mooring lines, one South and one North. Following the Northline we
descent till 20 meters, follwing the Southline till 30 meters. The whole
dive we will remain inside these depths or even deeper, preventing this
from being a long dive. But the underwater views are spectacular with
big granite boulders, some bigger than a house, with swimthroughs and a
really good chance to dive with big pelagics. Eaglerays and mantarays
swim round the rocks while giant stingrays rest in the sand. With a big
family of humphead parrotfish and napoleons living in the area plus the
beautiful soft corals and gorgonia seafans this is an eye opening
divesite, especially if a whalesharks comes around and takes a peak.
Maximum depth 40 meter, medium to strong current.
Coral Garden Lovely relaxed reefdive. Beautiful hard
and soft corals, rich in species of fishlife. Maximum depth 24 meter,
light to medium current.
Rocky Point Big, spread out rockboulders with sand
patches in between. A very healty fish population. Mainly hard corals,
but also seafans, whipcorals and sponges. In the deeper part of the
divesite a good chance of seeing barracuda and other pelagic fish.
Maximum depth 35 meter, medium current.
Koh Bon Wall Beautiful wall on the Southside of Koh
Bon, sloping down till about 30 meters deep. Covered in mainly hard
corals. Lots of different fishspecies, mainly of the bigger varieties.
Further to the West the boulders continue up to about 35 meters, where
we will also find whipcorals and other kinds of soft corals. In this
area we often see mantarays. Maximum depth 40 meter, medium to strong
current.
Koh Bon Pinnacle has no buoy line so
location is by GPS. When the captain signals it's time to jump into the
blue and descend down to the pinnacles.
The top is around 18 meters and
continues to run down to over 50 meters to the sand bottom were the
docile leopard shark sleeps while white tip reef sharks patrol the reef
in search of a meal.
These amazing pinnacles are covered with colourful soft coral trees,
large gorgonian sea fans and barrel sponges running down the walls. With
five species of clown fish in the magnificent anemones and their shrimp
and porcelain crab hosts its difficult to keep your eyes of the
pinnacles but a look out in to the blue can be rewarding with manta rays
gliding around and the occasional whale shark.
But don't forget to keep
a check on your air supply as its time to head back to the surface and
leave these beautiful creatures behind. Maximum depth 50 meter, medium
to strong current.
Koh Tachai The buoy line at Koh Tachai descends down
to 16 meters to reach the top of the plateau. From here you decide
which way to go North or South. North takes you over the plateau to the
beautiful coral garden at around 22 meters to 26 meters with some of the
best soft corals and sea fans in the area, which will keep underwater
photographers busy. South takes you down over the large boulders to
between 36 meters and 40 meters to reach the sandy bottom looking for
the docile leopard shark and large stingrays. Up above schooling great
barracudas with tunas and trevallys darting down to catch the baitfish
hanging around the reef. With a multitude of small creatures to look at
try not to forget a look into the blue to see the manta rays gliding
past and the occasional whale shark make Koh Tachai a spectacular dive
site. Maximum depth 40 meter, strong current.
Richelieu Rock Probably Thailand's best divesite, Richelieu Rock is horseshoe shaped and just breaks the
surface at low tide, descending down to around 33 meters to the sandy
bottom. The Northern side has an excellent wall with lots of cracks and
holes for you to look inside. The wall is covered with coral and zig zag
oysters where you can find over ten species of moray eels like the
commonly spotted white eyed, giant, yellow edged, and bartail morays or
the shy dragon, leopard, honeycomb and zebra morays.
The wall is also home to many species of shrimps from the cleaners,
anemone, saron, squat and the colorful harlequin shrimps. The West side
contains mostly soft corals and sea fans with ghost pipefish and
tigertail sea horses hiding in between the branches. But its here where
we all so encounter large schools of silver jacks and bluefin trevallys
with chevron and great barracudas too.
Richelieu Rock is also home to the gentle giant the whale shark
anywhere from 2 meter babys to 8 meter subadults. The walls seem to move
with so much life or look closely at the camouflaged scorpion, stone
and lionfishes that blend in to the rock. A truly spectacular dive site
no matter what the visibility. Maximum depth 40 meter, slight to strong
current.
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