Diving in Phuket Divesites

Phuket has an incredible number of dive sites around the Island. The Andaman Sea with it's year round temperature of 28 C invites you to come and join diving, snorkeling and swimming activities. The sea life is fascinating, versatile and offers beginners as well as advanced divers an optimum diving experience. The visibility varies from 10 to 25 m, depending on season and weather.

Anemone-fields, gorgonia-walls, hard-/ and soft corals, shoals of fish, barracudas, blue-spotted-rays, mantas, turtles, reef-sharks, giant-morays, lionfish, octopus, lobster and even the famous Whale sharks can be found here and will give you wonderful, colourful memories of diving in Thailand...

Racha Noi
This uninhabited Island gives you a breathtaking underwater world with huge rock formations. Gorges and tunnels are reminiscent of the captivating Similan Islands. You can see mantas, barracuda-schools, whitetip-reef-sharks and sepias.

Hin Daeng
Its a red rock, witch actually consists 3 separate boulders, each 30 m high. Providing food for the marine life, it attracts lots of fish, because its the only source of nourishment in a big area. Sometimes bull sharks, mantas, snakes and eagle-rays can be found here.

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Hin Muang
Purple Rock. It has got its name because of the pink and violet colored soft corals covering it. 16 m depth and 300 m long this rock extends into the open sea and the right and left hand side offer the best drop offs. It also has the deepest sea bed in Thailand, 70 m. Big fish like barracudas, grey-/whitetip -sharks, stingray, tunas and other shoals of fish can be watched here.

Koh Ha
Five islands offer you something very special here, spectacular Cathedral Diving. Huge domes will give you enough light for extreme impressive underwater- pictures.

Anemone Reef
This is the best reef diving, only 1.5 hours away from Phuket. The colourful underwater spot is completely covered with anemones and soft corals. Many kinds of tropical fish are common . Leopard sharks, large schools of barracuda, morays, tuna fish and even whale sharks, can sometimes be encountered here.

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Shark Point
This group consists of a row of 3 reefs and offers more than just sharks. In the middle of the ocean, 500 m away from Anemone Reef, it is the first reef in Phuket to be put under nature conservation. Each rock has its own seaworld. In addition to the enormous variety of different corals, you can find giant-morays, snakes and lionfish.

Koh Doc Mai
This very interesting island is a huge rock that comes out of the sea and has caves and grottos in which you can dive. It is only 1 hour away from Phuket and has a depth of 35 m. The 30 m stiff walls and the location in the open sea mean that you can do amazing drift dives. Some rare species like seahorses are here at home.

King Cruiser
The wreck is a 1997 sunken car-ferry beneath the Shark Point and the Anemone Reef. About 60 m long and quite tall with 3 decks, it is lying upright in a depth of 28 m. The upper deck reaches from the surface to 17 m. You can explore the car-deck as well as the captains cabin.

Lots of aquatic life has settled here and big schools of fish surround the famous wreck due to the nutritious water.

Phi Phi Island
Beautiful landscape, both above and under the water makes this one of the best places in the Andaman Sea. Wall diving, and cave diving and explore this fantastic spot. You will wish that the dive would never end. Clear water and tropical scenery is waiting for you. Sunrise Divers offers more than just a day trip to Phi Phi Island. Try our overnight "Phi Phi Island Special"!

Similan Island
The 9 charming Islands of the Similans, 90 km north-west of Nai yang, offer 16 excellent dive spots for the experienced diver. Elephant Head, Shaks fin Reef, Boulders City, Christmas Point come with visibilities up to 40 m. Even the trip on our big speed boat is already some thing very special. Sometimes you can watch dolphins in the open Sea. The dives itself give you everything a diver's heart needs. Here are the big .Whale sharks, Mauta rays, Dolphins and Reef sharks are seen here . To go for diving here is a must and you should take the challenge.

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Surin Island
Like the Similan Islands also these 5 Islands, covered with tropical jungle are declared to a marine national park, Located north of Similan they approach the border to Myanmar.
Here you can discover turtles, rays warring with their wings and an incredible number of corals and calms. Best dives for nightdiving. Crabs and shrimps are active in the Light of the torches.

Koh Waeo
This tiny island, located to the south of Nai Yang and just 20 minutes away from our dive school, consists of 2 rocks, rising 8 10 m above the surface. An amazing, unexpected variety of marine life can be found around the rock formations. Even turtles and lobster can be seen here. At a depth of between 6 and 17 m, it can be a special pleasure to dive through the colourful coral garden. This fantastic island is suitable for every kind of diver and snorkeller.

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Tin Mining Wreck
The sunken Tin Miner lies protected, between the island of Koh Waeo and Phuket. Only 30 mins. away by traditional longtail boat, trips go there every day. Normally, we like to connect this trip with another dive on Koh Waeo. This unique wreck, at a depth of 14 m. is something very special. As the only settlement in this area, it gives plenty of sealife a home. Huge batfish, lionfish, kingfish stonefish and porcupine-fish live here, as well as shrimps and morays.

House-Reefs Nai Yang
Here in the Nai Yang National Park, where only a few fishermen are allowed to work on the reefs to provide the local restaurants with fresh catch, working from their Longtail boats, a lot of quite rare stone corals, nudibranchs, flatworms, rays and trigger fish can be found.
Our housereefs Turtle Field, Stone-Reef-Garden and Barracuda-Point are perfect for education. Also any kind of experienced divers will love the colourful underwater world at the Barracuda-Channel, Monkey Rock and Shark Point with its beautiful marine life!

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