| Name
of Divesite |
Max
Depth |
Current |
Max
Viz |
Rating |
Description
|
|
North
Point
|
35m |
medium - strong |
25m |
 |
Three rock arches. Giant boulder
formation, embedded on sand or gravel bottom, between them you
find coral gardens with mainly soft corals. |
|
Christmas
Point
|
40m |
medium - strong |
-30m |
 |
Boulder formation, swimthroughs
in the deeper sections of the divesite. mainly soft corals
on the walls.
Variety of parrotfish, surgeonfish, in the deeper part colourful
starfish, giant sea cucumbers.
|
|
Breakfast
Bend
|
25
m |
medium |
-25m |
|
For this site you have the
best sunlight in the morning. The shallow level has a sandbottom,
scatterd with coral boulders, further out you have a 45 degree
drop off to the sandbottom at about 30 meters. The drop off
- thats what its all about. Beautiful soft and hard corals and
a very abundant marine life on it. |
|
| Snapper
Alley |
28m |
mild - medium |
-30m |
|
Beautiful reef drop off, followed
by rock boulders scattered on the sand floor. Rich marine life. |
|
Donald
Duck Bay
|
20
m
|
mild |
-25m |
 |
Scattered coral heads spread
widely on a shallow sand bottom. The rocks on the west side
of the bay are a bit more interesting. They offer nice boulder
landscape and a good variety of reef fish. |
|
Turtle
Rock
|
25
m |
mild |
-20m |
|
Boulders offer a nice under
water landscape, dive with a lot of swimthroughs. Fairly good
marine life, surgeon- and parrotfish, featherstars. Sadly
you still can find some scars of anchors and dynamite fishing.
Still a good site and worth visiting.
|
|
Fantasy
Reef
|
40m |
medium |
-30m |
 |
Desccending on a rocky plateau
to about 15 meters, you will find a magnificant garden of
hard and soft corals with an adequate variety of reef fish.
Going North you come to a big boulder swimthrough which leads
you down to the sandbottom at about 30 meters. From there
you turn West to pass enormous boulders, pass a valley and
continue from there.
Very rich marine and coral life. sweetlips of all kind, schools
of jacks, surgeon- and parrotfish, lion- and scorpion fish.
|
|
Beacon
Beach
|
35
m |
mild |
-25m |
|
Starts very shallow with coral
boulders, than slopes down to about 34 meter. On the slope there
is a real beautiful coral garden. Hard- and soft corals, anemones
with their inhabitants, all sorts of shellfish, and a very rich
variety of other reef fish. Down on the sand, you can find blue
spotted stingrays, gardeneels, sand dwelling goatfish. |
|
Beacon
Point
|
40
m |
medium - strong
|
-25m |
|
Large boulders on a sandy bottom.
Be careful, here you can reach your depth limit of 40 meter
easily. Down there, are only a few hardcorals on the boulders.
On the sand bottom there are always blue spotted stingrays,
garden eels, goat fish, surgeonfish and if you are lucky you
will find reef sharks. At the end of the dive, you come back
to the coral garden where Beacon Beach starts. |
|
Beacon
Point
|
40
m |
medium - strong
|
-25m |
|
Massive
boulder formations and swimthroughs, arches and caverns. Thats
why we dive here, it's a breathtaking underwater scenery with
all those giant boulders laying there as if a giant dropped
a handful of pebbles. Good marine life, mainly hardcorals.
A vast variety of reef fish and in the most southern part
of the site is a group of pinacles where you often can see
reefsharks.
|
|
Deep
Six
|
40m |
moderate |
-25m |
|
At the beginning large boulders
and arches, good for spectacular swimthroughs. Hard and softcorals
and a good variety of reef fish. In the deeper section of the
site large fields of whip corals and a number of other soft-
and hardcorals. Large sea fans, turtles and leopard sharks. |
|
East
of Eden
|
40
m |
medium |
-40m |
|
One of the most beautiful reefs
at the Similans. Mainly covered with hardcoral, it's also home
for a great variaty of fish. Schools of fusiliers and snappers,
single napoleon wrasses and sea turtles. In about the middle
of the divesite there is a stunning coral head, coming up from
25 and reaching 10 meters, it is home of an excellent marine
life. |
|
Stonehenge
|
40m |
medium - strong |
-25m |
|
This is a deep dive, towering
rocks with large seafans and sponges between them. All the small
reef fish are present. Leopardsharks, schools of tuna and travelly
are frequently seen here. |
|
| Princess
Bay |
15m |
mild
|
-20m |
|
Sandbottom with occasional
small coral boulders, nothing really exciting, good for nightdives,
special the western part of the bay. |
|
| Hideaway
Bay |
20
m |
mild
|
-20m |
|
Nice quiet bay. Sandbottom
with fairly big coral boulders, rich of marine life. The southtip
of the island drops down to about 25 meters. There you often
can see some ghostpipe fish. This site also is good for excellent
night dives. |
|
| Barracuda Point |
40m |
mild |
- 40m |
|
This divesite is also know as Anita's Reef. The reef is sloping down from 6 to about 28 meters. Coralgardens, soft- and hardcorals are scattered thoughout the sand and are painting a great scenery. You will all kind of reef fish. |
|
| Honeymoon
Bay |
26m |
mild |
- 25m |
|
On the westside of island No
4 you find a nice reef, dropping down from about 10 meter to
the sandbottom at 30 meters. Mainly hardcoral (staghorns) and
coral boulders can be found there. Sadly some areas are destroyed
from past tense anchoring. Still a good site, special for night
dives. |
|
Bird
Rock
|
40m |
medium |
-25m |
|
Large boulders, reaching down
to 40 meters. Not much marine life, but beautiful rock formations
and swimthroughs at 16 m (53 ft). |
|
Shark
Fin Reef
|
40m |
medium - strong |
-30m |
|
Three reef outcrops are seen
from the surface. The dive takes you along either side of that
vast outstretched rockformation. The southwest side is mainly
a steep dropoff. At the southeast side of this formation is
a large swimthrough where you can change from one side to the
other. There you can find big lionfish in sheltered corners,
surgeonfish and a variety of other reef fish. The corals there
are mainly hardcorals. |
|
Boulder
City
|
40m |
medium - strong
|
- 30m |
|
Mountainous submerged boulder
formations, running from southeast to northwest. Descending
on the southeast mooringline you swim over scattered rocks,
between them is a enormous seafan garden. Beside it there is
a large plateau, rising 2 meters above the seabed. It is dotted
with smaller hard and soft corals which is home to a rich variety
of reef fish. |
|
Coral
Garden
|
24m |
mild - medium |
-25m |
|
Easy
reef dive. Beautiful hard and soft corals, rich on a great
number of reef fish.
|
|
Rocky
Point
|
35m |
medium |
-25m
|
|
Large scattered boulders, intersepted
by patches of sand. Healthy fish population. There are mainly
hard corals, but you can also find seafans and barrel sponges.
Towards the deeper part of the site is a chance to see barracudas
and other pelagic fish. |
48 NM due West of Ranong Province on the West
coast of Thailand. Comprises five granite islands, covered with
evergreen forest. The dive sites are located on a fringing reef,
and submerged pinnacles.
About 13 NM of Tap Lamu the Bonsoong wreck lies on sandy flat bottom in a maximum depth of 20 meter. This tinminer platform sank about 10 years ago. A fairly easy divesite where also beginners can go. The wreck serves as an artificial reef for big schools of fish. The site is famous for big and curious lionfish and all kind of moray eels.
Deutsch 
This page gives a brief description of some of the dive sites
that you are likely to
visit. 'Koh' means 'island' in Thai, so most of the divesites
are named Koh ...
While diving, you are likely to discover an abundance of hard
and soft corals, diverse
marine life: large pelagic, including occasional whale
sharks, mantas or eagle rays. On the protected eastern sides of
the islands you'll find gentle sloping reefs, anemones, hard and
soft coral, and plenty of marine life. 
