Phuket & Andaman Sea Dive Sites

South Thailand Daytrips and Liveaboards Dive Spots

Discover the most famous dive sites around Phuket. Most of them are about a 1h30 boat trip. They offer different underwater's seascape (wall, soft or hard coral, boulders, sandy bottom) at different depth (from 10 to 40 meters.)

Phuket Daytrips Dive Sites

Phuket West Coast

An inexpensive way to get your feet (and everything else) wet, Phuket's west coast offers some surprisingly interesting dives. Although nowhere on the scale of he offshore islands, there are some nice reefs located just off the tourist beaches, particularly Kata. Hire an inexpensive local longtail boat and see what you can see. Read more...

Koh Dok Mai

An island located one hour east of Phuket. A walldive where you can spot everything, however look especially for the sea horse hanging on to the gorgonias and the many species of moray eels peeking out from their cavities. Here you also have the option of cave exploration. Read more...

Anemone Reef

This submerged reef located close to Shark Point has extensive fields of beautiful sea anemones. Harmless Leopard Sharks are also to be found together with some massive schools of smaller fish and some larger pelagics such as Tuna and Barracuda. Read more...

King Cruiser Wreck

The ship sank in May 1997 with no loss of life and the subsequent wreck is providing a new home for a variety of marine creatures. Conveniently resting in an upright position, divers who have never dived in a wreck before can enjoy the fascination of exploring this site. Read more...

Shark Point

Shark Point, a small rock outcropping about 1½ hours east of Phuket, is a marine sanctuary with a great variety of marine life. Particular attractions are the colourful soft corals and sea fans around the limestone pinnacle, tropical fish, and of course, the Leopard Sharks, found on the sandy bottom. Read more...

Diving at Koh Racha Yai

Located about 1 ½ hours south of Phuket, Racha Yai's hard coral reefs, shallow water coral gardens and sloping rocks provide enjoyable drift diving. There are several excellent dive sites which are particularly suitable for beginners and snorkellers. Read more...

Diving at Koh Racha Noi

Rachaa Noi offers some truly spectacular sites with giant underwater boulders and scenery almost like the Similan Islands further north, plus a great chance to see some of the bigger fish like Manta Rays and Whale Sharks. Read more...

Phi Phi Islands

The Phi Phi Islands are famous for their beauty above the water, but underwater, the landscape is also just as stunning. As a diver, you'll find that the spectacular limestone cliffs above the water become sheer drop-offs below the water line. The craggy coral encrusted landscape attracts a huge variety of colourful and diverse marine creatures. Read more...

Phuket Liveaboards Dive Sites

Similan Islands

The Similans Islands located about one hundred kilometers North-West of Phuket, are composed of nine granite islands washed by a clear blue tropical ocean and blessed with some of the world’s finest beaches. Read more...

Koh Bon and Koh Tachai

Located north of the Similan Islands, these two islands offer some variety on liveaboard trips to their more famous cousins. Koh Bon is the home of one of the few vertical walls in Thailand and is an excellent place to encounter manta rays. Koh Tachai, features one of the finest reefs in all of Thailand. Read more...

Richelieu Rock

The Surin Islands are famous for some spectacular isolated beaches, bays and coves. For divers, the real attraction is a little rock 18 km (11 miles) off the coast of Phuket. For some mysterious reason this rock draws whale sharks like cops to a donut factory. Read more...

Surin Islands

Located just below the border with Burma on the northern end of the Thai coastline. There are five islands in all, but he two most popular are Koh Surin Neua (north island) and Koh Surin Tai (south island). The Surin Island chain are a series of jungle covered granite outcrops that are ringed with coral reefs to a depth of 25-30 meters. Read more...

Hin Daeng

Hin Daeng (Red Rock) is located just a few hundred meters south of Hin Muang (southwest of the Phi Phi Islands) and is visited by live-aboard boats operating from Phuket. Only the extreme tip of this huge pinnacle protrudes about the surface. Read more...

Hin Muang

Hin Muang, (Purple Rock) is totally submerged and is located just a few hundred meters north of Hin Daeng. This unique dive site is so completely covered with lush purple soft corals that it actually seems to glow, and it attracts the most incredible amount of marine life you will find anywhere. Read more...

Burma Banks

These flat topped underwater plateaus are one of the best places in Southeast Asia to have some serious shark encounters. The Banks are known primarily as a big animal hot spot and the mounts are frequented by large numbers of nurse sharks and sliver tips. Read more...

Mergui Archipelago

The Mergui Archipelago, of which the Burma Banks are a part, has only become known to divers in recent years. After nearly 50 years of total isolation, the 800 islands of the archipelago have started being explored by intrepid divers looking for a new experience in Southeast Asian waters. Read more...

Andaman Islands

Still fairly unexplored, the Andaman Islands lie between Phuket and India in the Bay of Bengal. These islands have only been open to diving for a relatively short period of time after 50 years of near-total isolation. Read more...

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