Dive in Koh Similan

Adjacent to islands #5 and #6. Fine reef with hard and soft corals. Also sand bottom where you can find Kuhl's stingrays and Garden eels. The special attraction of this site is a bommy called "Hin Muan Daew" (literally "Whole roll of film rock"). It is located on the south-east and depth is between…

This site features an initial sandy reef flat at 8m followed by a steeply dipping hard coral reef to 30m, and lies 100m offshore. It runs parallel to the eastern coast (southern section), and is named after the navigation beacon that overlooks it. The reef is not as scenic as at other sites, but…

This is a good multilevel dive with interesting features at every depth. This south easterly reef is actually an extension of the lengthy sloping dropoff running parallel to the eastern coast (Beacon Beach), and very comparable to the latter except that the coral at Beacon Point is superior. There…

This site is a further 1.5km south east of neighbouring Shark Fin reef. Although part of the same underwater ridge as Shark Fin, the main dominant feature of Boulder City are the huge granite boulders providing interesting archways and swim-throughs. Depths from 12 - 35m. Visibility 18 - 25m. The…

This is a dive site which in many ways typifies Similan Islands scubadiving since it is dominated by the enormous granite boulders, archesand swim-throughs that make diving here unlike anywhere else. Using thewalls as substrate, soft corals and huge sea fans proliferate and act asthe backdrop to the…

One of the most beautifull beach of all Similan Islands. This large fringing reef stretches the length of the long sandy beach on the north east of the island. The reef gradually slopes down to a sandy bottom at 24m, from a near-surface depth where some corals are even exposed at low tides. Depths…

This site off the northly tip is an underwater ridge extension of the island. Depths from 10 - 42m. Visibility 18 - 24m. Quite a good multilevel dive with excellent marine life. There are interesting passageways between the large granite boulders, which are covered with large barrel sponges, wire…

This picturesque bay, with it's beautiful white beach backed by rock formations and dense vegetation, is a popular anchorage for live-aboards. The site is known by several names including Shoe Bay (Ao Guakin Thai), or Campbell's Bay, and the eastern side of the bay (The Boulders) is the most…

Also known as Morning Edge, this site borders the easternmost point of the Koh Payu island for a few hundred meters, and is probably one of the most spectacular sites within the Similans. Despite it's relatively compact size, it offers very beautiful underwater scenery, with an excellent blend of…

Very nice corals.

Named after the rock that sits out of the water and, to the imaginativemind, resembles an elephant cranium, this is another Similan divesite where the stunning topography is the chief feature. It is quite an extensive site and features huge granite rocks, clad with thorough growths of hard corals,…

This dive rates as one of the best in the Similans, and lies about 150m off the North West coast. A series of massive granite boulders, at depths of 10m to 30m, provide numerous caves, arches and swim-throughs. Aside from the excellent gorgonians and sea fans and a host of critters, the abundant and…

Situated off the south east of the Koh Miang Song, island #5, it features wire corals and sea fans cover the granite boulders of the seabed at 30m, where large stingrays are to be found. The shallower depths have hard corals, and many varities of reef fish. Batfish are common. Drift diving is…

Big rocky boulders sea ground. Go N at a depth of 30m, there are three rock arches. In the area, there is also a pinnacle rising from 40 meters to 25 meters.Fish schoals, and occasional sharks and rays.

This site is located just off the most southeasterly tip of the island and offers a submerged ridge of jumbled granite boulders from the surface down to at least 40m. There are numerous ledges, archways, caves and crevices. Depths from 12 - 40m. Visibilty 18 - 24m. Hard corals and feather stars…

This reef begins at 1.5km south east of island #3, and actually encompasses two quite different sites (Shark Fin Reef and Boulder City) at each end of the reef. The reef is a long rocky ridge running in a northwest to southeast direction. Shark Fin reef derives it's name from it's resemblance to a…

Located at the southerly most tip of the island, where a heap of granite boulders slope steeply into the sea. Thriving soft corals, wire corals, sea fans, sponges, feather stars and black-coral trees are to be found amongst the deeper rocks. Fish life is only fair, but includes schools of five-lined…

This is a relatively deep site a couple of hundred meters off the northern tip of Ko Miang. Large granite boulders are strewn over a white sandy floor at an average depth of 30m. The best parts of the site lie between depths of 18 to 40m. At 20m one encounters hard corals, sponges and feather stars.…

Lying off the north of the island, this is a fringing reef at the southwestern edge of Campbell's Bay/Donald Duck Bay. It derives it's name from a giant rock formation on the surface, resembling a turtle. Granite boulders slope down to a sandy bottom, in the shape of a canyon. Anemones, fields of…

Typically to the dive sites on the west side of Similans, this dive site is characterised by giant granite boulders creating nice canyons. The walls are covered with colourful soft corals and large sea fans. This is a great site to look for smaller things like nudibranchs, pipefish and fire gobies.…

Off the southern tip of Elephant Rock lies a granite pinaccle, often referred to as Elephant pinaccle, stretching from a depth of 15m down to 42m. This is another interesting site with a varied and rich selection of fish life, hard and soft corals including a pink carpet of soft tree corals, feather…

Small site off the southern tip of the island. The hard corals are near pristine and very healthy, and the reef slopes gradually down to a sandy bottom at 24m. Abundance of colourful reef fish even at shallow depths of only 3m, including various parrotfish and convict surgeonfish. Look out for flame…

This is a small bay on the east of the Ko Miang island, and adjacent to Bungalow Bay which contains the National Forestry Department bungalows. Depths from 5 - 20m. Visibility 18m. Interesting at dawn/sunset/night dive. The reef slopes down to a sandy base at 20m. Quite extensive and numerous corals…

Off the southern tip of the island there is an underwater ridge which drops sharply to 40m. Depths from 18 - 40m. Visibility 18 - 24m.The sea fans are very large here. There are occasional sightings of leopard sharks at 35m. This site is not visited by many dive companies.

Another interesting drift dive site, off the north west of the island. Depths from 10 - 20m. Visibility 18 - 24m. There are large areas of hard coral, with highlights of sea stars, red sponges and feather stars in the mid-section. Golden damselfish, fusiliers, scorpionfish and batfish are plentiful.

Situated off a small cove on the south west of the island, the site takes it's name from five coral heads (bommies) at depths of 20m and makes for a good night dive, when the bommies really come alive with many nocturnal players including moorish idols, brittle stars, decorator crabs, spindle…

Located in Koh Bangu (#9), this site consists primarily of hard corals but also has a few healthy soft corals, gorgonians and black corals. It is a good multi-level dive , and also an excellent night dive. The site lies off the eastern coast, and begins to the east of where Snapper Alley ends. There…

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