Diving at dive sites in Thailand: Thailand

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  1. Hardeep : Hardeep is a spectacular wreck used by the Japanese during WWII as a supply ship for its troops.
  2. HTMS Khram : The HTMS Khram has become one of Pattaya's best wreck diving sites with excellent penetration opportunities and brilliant marine life.
  3. HTMS Kood : The HTMS Kood was a former US warship which was used for many years by the Thai government afterwards.
  4. Ko Chan : Ko Chan lies southeast of the busy shipping lane and is a dive site not many divers visit because of its very popular neighbour.
  5. Ko Chuang : Ko Chuang's most southern tip has a small cove with some excellent marine life.
  6. Ko Hu Chuang : Ko Hu Chang is a tiny island sitting in the middle of the Koh Phai Group only an hour west of Pattaya.
  7. Ko Khrok : Koh Khrok has a pretty wall full of anemones often dived as a strong drift dive because of its strong tidal flows.
  8. Ko Klung Badan : Ko Klung Badan is a shallow dive site known for its many shallow barrel sponges and boulders.
  9. Ko Lan Vak : Ko Lan Vak
  10. Ko Man Witchai : Ko Man Wichai is famous for its excellent southern wall and line-up of five coral heads looking like the fingers of a human's hand.
  11. Ko Rin : Koh Rin is probably the best place near Pattaya to dive as there are many fish, excellent miniwalls and brilliant coral formations.
  12. Ko Sak : Ko Sak
  13. Petchburi Bremen : The Petchburi Bremen or Kaeo Samud is Pattaya's best wreck dive but she needs a bit of planning to make it an excellent dive.
  14. Samaesan Hole : The Samaesan Hole is a dangerous, high current, trimix dive site but extremely exciting.
  15. Shark Fin Rocks : Shark Fin Rock is one of the best drift dives near Samae San along a sharkfin like coral ridge.
  16. Submarine Rock : Submarine Rock hosts groups of fish, but pay attention not to enter neighbouring Ko Khram as it is a restricted area for tourists.
  1. Hin Luk Bat : Hin Luk Bat is a popular dive site famous because of its many boulders swarmed with fish and covered in soft corals.
  2. Hin Rap South : Hin Rap South is diving among many scattered boulders and pinnacles famous because of its many juvenile inhabitants.
  3. Hin Run Tek : Hin Run Tek
  4. Hin Sam Sao : Hin Sam Sao
  5. Ko Kut or Ko Kood : Ko Kut or Ko Kood
    1. Koh Mai Si Lek : Koh Mai Si Lek
  6. Ko Lao Ya : Ko Lao Ya Nai and Ko Lao Ya Nok
  7. Koh Khlum : Koh Khlum is a shallow dive paradise perfect for trainees and snorkellers.
  8. Koh Rang : Koh Rang is an excellent chain of small islands with some excellent clear and shallow hard coral reefs around its shores.
    1. Hin Kuak Maa : Hin Kuak Maa is known for its wide variety of marine fish that inhabit the area.
    2. Koh Kra : Koh KraJust northeast of Koh Rang lies Koh Kra, which is a small chain of islands famous for its huge pieces of staghorn coral.
    3. Koh Rang Pinnacle : Ko Rang Pinnacle is Ko Chang's deepest dive site famous for its wall, steep pinnacle and pelagic species.
    4. Koh Thian West : Koh Thian West is a small island northwest of Koh Rang with still some excellent opportunities for close-up pictures of marine life.
    5. Koh Yak : Koh Yak is a small island northeast of Koh Rang famous by snorkellers and muck divers.
  9. Koh Wai : Koh Wai is a nice remote island with beaches a bit less white than neighbouring islands and its shores are not fully explored by divers yet.
  10. Secret Reef : Secret Reef
  11. Thonburi Wreck : The Thai warship named Thonburi sank during a French colonial attack in 1941.
  1. Ang Thong : Dive sites at Ang Thong Marine National Park
    1. Koh Chuak : Koh Chuak
    2. Koh Wao : Diving at dive site Koh Wao
  2. Chumphon Pinnacle : Chumphon Pinnacle is a huge pinnacle dive site being one of the most northerly located dive sites reachable from Ko Tao.
  3. Koh Pha-Ngan : Koh Pha-Ngan
    1. Koh Ma, Mae Haad : Diving at Koh Ma / Mae Haad
  4. Koh Samui : Ko Samui is known as a backpacker paradise where many tourists undergo their first steps into the world of diving.
    1. Ao Chaweng : Ao Chaweng or Chaweng Beach is the most popular shore dive off Ko Samui with some nice aquatic reef fish.
    2. Five Islands : Five Islands offers simple diving but is known for the bird nests that are created high up on the steep cliffs.
  5. Koh Tao : Koh Tao
    1. AOW Leuk : AOW Leuk
    2. Buddha Point : Buddha Point
    3. Green Rock : Diving at dive site Green Rock, near Ko Tao
    4. Hin Wong Pinnacle : Hin Wong Pinnacle is one twenty meter large coral head named after its many purple coloured soft corals.
    5. Japanese Gardens : Japanese Gardens has become famous for its coral gardens of plate coral.
    6. Laem Thian : Laem Thian Pinnacle on the most eastern point of Koh Tao is a fantastic wall dive ending along the bays shallow reef.
    7. Mango Bay : Mango Bay is like a family's day out with advanced diving, trainings, snorkelling and swimming.
    8. Nam Tok Point : Nam Tok Point
    9. Nang Yuan Pinnacle : Nang Yuan Pinnacle or Hin Deang is a nice large pinnacle often dived by spiralling up and enjoying all its life.
    10. Sairee Reef : Sairee Reef
    11. Shark Island or Red Rock : Shark Island or Red Rock has excellent colourful soft coral formations, large groups of fish and chances of meeting different species of sharks.
    12. Twins or Aow Sam : Twins is an excellent and colourful dive site around two large pinnacles.
    13. White Rock or Hin Khao : White Rock or Hin Khao is a popular night dive where barracuda's have learned that our torches illuminate fish which makes easy preys.
  6. Sail Rock : Sail Rock is one large pinnacle that features a spacious chimney of more than ten meters high.
  7. Samran Pinnacle : Diving at dive site Samran Pinnacle
  8. Southwest Pinnacle : Southwest Pinnacle consists out of a sequence of rocks that can be visited drift diving and from one to another and sheltering behind them to take a quick look.
  1. Ko Bon : Ko Bon is a small limestone island famous as it earned the status of best manta ray view point in Thailand.
    1. Ko Bon Bay : A brilliant boulder night dive can be done inside a shallow bay where live aboard tours spent the night.
    2. Ko Bon Pinnacle : Ko Bon Pinnacle is a huge pinnacle that drops to depth exceeding forty meters deep encircled in pelagic species.
    3. Ko Bon Western Ridge : There is a line of divers waiting along the western ridge and wall for spotting mantas.
  2. Ko Chi : Ko Chi is popular because of the many species of turtles that are seen here including leatherback, green and hawksbill.
  3. Ko Tachai : Koh Tachai is a very small island known for diving at Twin Peaks or the Plateau.
    1. Dome or Ko Tachai Plateau : The Dome of Ko Tachai Plateau is diving at huge boulders, excellent marine life and great coral growth.
    2. Twin Peaks : Twin Peaks is one of the best diving sites known in Thailand and all over the world.
  4. Ko Torinla : Ko Torinla's northeast side offers an excellent healthy sloping hard coral reef with many different marine species.
  5. Richelieu Rock : Richelieu Rock is known all over the world as one of the best dives where you will meet and can swim with whale sharks.
  6. Swift Passage : Diving at dive site Swift Passage
  7. Torinla South : Diving near Ko Torinla at dive site Torinla South
  8. Turtle Ledges : Turtle Ledge is a long time favourite for spotting turtles and other colourful marine life.
  1. Anita's Reef : Anita's Reef is an easy and relaxing dive site known for its many common reef fish and overwhelming amount of colors.
  2. Batfish Bend : Batfish Bend is a dive site which is patrolled by a group of more than fifty longfin batfish.
  3. Beacon Beach or Beacon Reef : Beacon Reef or Beacon Beach is the only wreck dive in the Similans as of August 2002 when live aboard the Atlantis 2000 sank here.
  4. Beacon Point : Beacon Point is known for its huge boulders dotted on a white sandy ocean floor creating swimthroughs, arches and caverns.
  5. Bommies : Diving at the Similan Islands, Ko Bangu, dive site Bommies
  6. Boulder City : Boulder City is a large dive site where you dive at huge rocks, pinnacles and coral heads.
  7. Breakfast Bend : Breakfast Bend received its name from the bright sunrays that literally light up this dive site in the early morning.
  8. Christmas Point : Christmas Point is a maze of swimthroughs, arches and rocky terrain surrounded with fish and covered in the best colours.
  9. Coral Gardens : Diving at the Similan Islands, Ko Huyong, dive site Coral Gardens
  10. Coral Reef : Coral Reef
  11. Deep Six : Deep Six is a ridge featuring a huge boulder surrounded with smaller rocks creating excellent swimmthroughs.
  12. Donald Duck Bay : Donald Duck Bay is a gem for snorkellers named after a rock that resembles the cartoon character.
  13. East Of Eden : East of Eden has one of the largest single coral bommies with a size of more than ten meters high.
  14. Eastern Shallows : Eastern Shallows is the most southern dive site in the Similans, just of Ko Huyong.
  15. Elephant's Head Rock : Elephants Head or Hin Pusar is a submerged boulder just reaching the surface just south of Ko Similan.
  16. Fanfare Point : Diving at the Similan Islands, Ko Payu, dive site Fanfare Point
  17. Fantasea Reef : At Fantasy Reef you can see many hugged boulders separated by valleys full of coral and marine life.
  18. Hideaway : Diving west of Ko Bangu you can find a wicked dive site named the Hideaway
  19. Hideaway Bay or Barracuda Point : Hideaway Bay is a great wall dive and an excellent example about what diving in the Similans is like.
  20. North Point : North Point
  21. Rocky Point : Rocky Points, one of the southern most dive sites in the Similans, is a ridge formed out of rock formations swarmed with fish life.
  22. Shark Fin Reef : Shark Fin Reef is an amazing dive spotting many reef and leopard sharks while drift diving along a narrow ridge.
  23. Snapper Alley : Snapper Alley is an area with many boulders famous for the many snappers that hover around.
  24. Stonehenge : Stonehenge has become famous because of its boulder formations resembling the famous stones in England.
  25. Turtle Rock : Diving at the Similan Islands, Ko Similan, dive site Turtle Rock
  1. Anemone Reef : Anemone Reef is one of the most colourful dive sites near Phuket filled with anemones.
  2. Coral Island Ko Hi : Coral island is because of its proximity from Phuket and being sheltered from the monsoon a dive site that can be dived all year long.