Dive Site – Phuket

Nestling like a pearl, set in the centre of the Andaman Sea, Phuket’s location sets it apart from and elevates it above Thailand’s other diving destinations, and this is one of the reasons why so many divers come back to the area year after year. Simply put, this island is the only resort area from where you can go diving at all of Thailand’s chief attractions, with regular Phuket liveaboard tours to the famous Similan Islands, Hin Daeng, Richelieu Rock, as well as Burma.

You can dive Phuket for a wide range of interesting local adventures too – discover the sunken treasures of the King Cruiser car ferry wreck, or if you are a keen photographer then you can take underwater photos of the leopard sharks at Shark Point or Koh Phi Phi. Then there’s the chance to dive with manta rays and view whales at Racha Noi South Point. With unbeatable access to all of the best diving in Thailand, its own varied and fascinating underwater worlds, plus its legendary topside attractions of fantastic beaches and thumping nightlife, Phuket diving proves very popular with both young holidaymakers and experienced dive travellers.

Anemone Reef
Depth: 6 – 25m
Level: Open Water & Advanced Divers

• Lemon sea fans. Barrel sponges
• Scorpionfish
• Common lionfish and spotfin lionfish
• Snapper, grouper and fusiliers
• Splendid soldierfish congregate
• Yellow tiger-tail seahorses
• Giant morays, undulated morays and white-eyed moray eels, honeycomb, yellow-edged and spot-faced moray eels
• Tomato, skunk, pink and Clark’s anemonefish
• Leopard sharks
• Hawksbill turtles

Koh Dok Mai
Depth: 5 – 30m
Level: Open Water & Advanced Divers

• Dive down to 30 metres
• Caverns and caves
• Yellow tiger-tail seahorses
• Gorgonian sea fans
• Ghost pipefish and harlequin ghostpipefish
• Lobster, crabs, zigzag clams, pencil urchins, oysters, squid, and white-eyed moray eels
• Leopard sharks, grey reef sharks and Indonesian bamboo sharks

Racha Yai
Depth: 5 – 25m
Level: Open Water

• Water is always clear
• Titan triggerfish, moray eels, cuttlefish, octopus and giant pufferfish
• Trumpetfish
• Cornetfish
• Twin-spot snapper, dog-eyed pufferfish and parrotfish
• Blue-spotted stingrays
• Garden eels
• Yellowtail barracuda

Racha Noi
Depth: 5 – 40m
Level: South Point – Advanced divers only, all other sites – intermediate

• Manta rays and whales
• Tuna and jacks
• Blue-spotted stingrays
• Red octopus
• chevron barracuda

Shark Point
Depth: 5 – 22m
Level: Open Water & Advanced Divers

• Leopard sharks
• Bamboo sharks
• Lionfish and scorpionfish
• Yellow boxfish, Moorish idols, bannerfishes
• Blue-ringed angelfish and emperor angelfish
• Potato groupers
• Schools of fusiliers
• Glassfish
• Moray eels and banded sea snakes
• Yellow seahorse
• White-eyed morays, banded boxer shrimps and hinge-beak shrimps