A list of the best rated dive movies in Thailand.
Richelieu Rock
Diving Richelieu Rock in Thailand has become world's top location for diving with whale sharks. The best season for diving with whales is from March to May when these majestic gentle but huge creatures pass by. A sighting of the largest fish living in the ocean has a ten percent success rate. These amazing creatures are rare almost everywhere in the world so consider yourself lucky if you have the opportunity to dive with them. The whales are attracted to this horse shoe shaped splintered rock p...
Dome or Ko Tachai Plateau
Ko Tachai Plateau or the Dome as she is often called as well is one of the best dive sites near this small island. She is located at less than one kilometer south and consists out of a large plateau at thirteen meters deep and drops to depths of thirty five meters. She is a submerged crowned reef of sheet corals with many boulders at its base which have created excellent swimthroughs. The large round rocks are often used as shelter for the heavy current that always prevails. Several other grea...
Ko Bida Nai
Ko Bida Nai is translated to inner father and is as beautiful as its neighbour Ko Bida Nok, just a hundred meters south. Most divers start their dive by using one of the mooring lines that is attached to a rock which makes an excellent swimmthrough. It actually is an archway filled with silver glassfish that opens the door to a spectacular hard coral garden once you use your fins to swim through it. Nearby is a large coral outcrop called Fantasea Reef which is where most divers spend all their t...
Ko Tachai
Koh Tachai Island is a small uninhabited island roughly halfway between the Similans and Surin islands. At 165 kilometers north of Phuket and 65 kilometers northwest of Khao Lak most boat tours that come here are live aboard tours travelling from and to the Surin Islands and Similans. It is however possible to reach this area in an eighty minutes speedboat ride from Khao Lak. Morning tends to be the most crowded time to dive here but doing a sunset dive doesn't mean all the action is gone. The ...
Hideaway Bay or Barracuda Point
Hideaway Bay is a shallow quiet bay at the southern most tip of Koh Payu just south of Anita's Reef. Its underwater landscape is full of isolated rocks and boulders situated on a sandy ocean floor. It is a perfect example to describe what diving in the Similan islands is like. Reef fish have a healthy life along the coral topped bommies and coral heads and you will see many clown triggerfish. The south of this dive site features a wall reaching depths of 25 meters. Barracuda's are common...
