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BEST DIVE SITES IN THAILAND
SAIL ROCK, KOH PHANGAN, ANTHONG NATIONAL PARK & KOH TAO
Every day we are going diving to the best dive sites in Thailand with our diving boat around Koh Phangan and to Sail Rock. Sometimes we are going as well diving at Koh Tao or at Anthong National Park (north part).
If you rather go on a private tour, Blue Horizon Diving can organise any tour (scuba diving & snorkeling) for you on a private speedboat. Just ask us if you want a customised tour.
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1. Koh Phangan
Whale shark
Sail Rock
Koh Maa
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SAIL ROCK
Sail Rock, located between Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, is one of the best dive sites in Thailand. This unique shaped granite pinnacle with amazing walls stretched down to 47 meters. The Rock has everything to offer from macro diving to whale sharks. The bio-diversity and number of marine life are really impressive. If you want to dive with thousands of barracudas, fusilliers, carangues and batfish, go there!
The Pinnacle of Sail Rock has an amazing chimney. You can go inside using one of the 3 entrances which are at 5, 13 and 19 meters deep.
Every divers, from beginners to advanced levels, can dive at Sail Rock.
SAMRAN PINNACLE
Samran Pinnacle is hidden between Sail Rock and Koh Tao. Its a huge rock that starts at 9m depth and drops down to 28m. You can go slightly deeper if you follow the other rock pattern along the bottom.
Around the rock you can spot schools of barracudas, fusiliers and trevalli’s. Encounters with whale sharks are also possible. Only advanced divers can dive at Samran Pinnacle.
HAAD YAO / HAAD SALAD
Had Yao is a shallow dive site where you really get long dives. An impressive diversity of marine life from the porcupine puffer fish to the flat worm is present at this site. Sting rays, anemone fish, cuttlefish… are species of this biotope. This beach dive can become a very interesting dive as you keep in encountering surprising stuff.
We go there for fluorescent night diving and snorkeling!
MAE HAAD & KOH MAA
The dive sites are around the small island oh Koh Maa, located in the north of Koh Phangan. You can easily do a second dive there. You will spot big groupers, blue spotted sting rays, school of rabbit fishes and much more. On the sandy bottom you find all kind of stuff. For instance: family of clark’s anemone fish, goby fisf, black common sea horse. This is a relaxing shallow dive.
Beach diving at Haad Yao, Haad Salad and Mae Haad. There you will dive on amazing coral reefs. Ideal for beginners and night dives. Sail Rock is famous for its amazing landscape and its whale sharks. Chumphon Pinnacle is famous for its sharks (grey, reef and bull sharks).
Koh Phangan is well-known for its legendary Full Moon party; What people usually don’t know is that Koh Phangan also offers very good quality of diving & snorkeling on the coral reefs of the north-west coast of the island.
2. Anthong National Park
Emerald Lake
Monkey Beach
KOH WOA BAY
Koh Woa Bay is a lovely shallow dive site offering perfect training conditions and really long dives opportunity. This dive site displays beautiful anemone gardens that stretch as far as the eyes can see.
All the usual companions are there. Koh Wao is a classic example of a well balanced dive site.
HIN YIPPON
Hin Yippon is mainly known for its 2 shallow swim-through. However this dive has an impressive numbers of fish. Schools of fusiliers and barracudas, banded sea snakes, white eye moray eels, nudibranches, reef cuttlefish and much more are swimming there.
KOH YIPPON
Koh Yippon is a huge island when it comes to diving.You can do many dives there without diving the same spot twice.
This dive site has a great diversity of fish and corals, beautiful Gorgonian sea fans, blue spotted sting rays and occasionally resident turtles can be spotted. Koh Yippon offer some swim-through, which makes the dive even more exciting!
3. Koh Tao dive sites
When we are going to Koh Tao, we are usually diving the wreck.Around Koh Tao, there are a lot of dive sites in the bays. There, it is very easy diving for beginners but you wont see as many fishes as in Sail Rock. Among the most known dive sites in Thailand, there are the wreck, the shark island and the pinnacles in Koh Tao.
CHUMPHON PINNACLE
Chumphon pinnacle, north west of Koh Tao is made up from one huge granite pinnacle and a series of smaller ones.
The top of the pinnacle is at 14m and drop off to 36 meters deep. It is covered with anemones. You will dive with thousands of barracudas, trevallis and bat fish. Some of the biggest groupers of the gulf of Thailand can be seen there.
This dive site is well known for the sharks that you spot. There you can dive with grey reef sharks and black tip reef sharks.
SOUTHWEST PINNACLE
Southwest Pinnacle, south west of Koh tao is a deep dive site.
Reaching 30m, Southwest Pinnacle consists of a series of steep pinnacles rising from the sandy sea bed. Zigzagging between pinnacles give you the filling to be in a little maze.
With a huge diversity of marine life, Southwest Pinnacle has a little bit of everything to offer. Watch out sometime the current is quite strong over there.
Wreck Sattakut-742
The wreck named “HTMS (His Thai Majesty Ship) Sattakut-742” voluntarily sank on June 18, 2011 near the west coast of Koh Tao. At 158 feet long (about 48 meters), the Sattakut now rests at a depth of 30 meters (30 meters at the stern and 27 meters for the bow). Its exploration is reserved to experienced divers (Advanced Open Water certification). Its recommended to be a wreck diver as the Sattakut has many points of entry …
KOH NANGYUAN
Koh Nangyuan constitutes 3 little islands united by a triangular sand bank. We usually see this place on post cards. These islands offer awesome snorkeling and diving opportunities.
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