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Scuba Diving in Thailand
from: Maxx Adventue TravelOf all the places you can travel to in the world, Thailand is one of the most exciting, especially for scuba diving adventurers. The country is world famous for its shopping, elephant rides, sight seeing and naughty shows. For scuba divers, Thailand offers great diving areas including the stunning Andaman Sea off the southern coasts, and the Similan Islands further north.
Octover to April is the best time of year in Thailand since the rainy season could play havoc with your scuba diving trip any other time of the year. If you insist on going diving from May to September, your best bet is the Gulf of Thailand on the eastern coast, but you're not likely to see the same beautiful corals found on the its west coast.
Since this is a tropical country, sea temperatures for Thailand don't change as drastically as temperate climates, with the average temperature 28 degrees Celsius.
Here's some of Thailand’s most popular scuba diving spots:
Koh Kraden Wreck: is just off Koh Kraden Island’s coast and is famous for a sunken Japanese destroyer. Though the ship may not be recognizable, it's now a major breeding ground for great flora and fauna. You'll catch sea horses, giant morays, soft corals, lion fish, and great schools of fish at this location.
Koh Dok Mai: is popular for night scuba diving. This rocky island has a very colorful view of small as well as huge caverns. There are a great many lobsters, moray eels, leopard sharks, sea snakes at this diving site’s sloping reefs.
Hin Mouang: the area is famous for its pelagic fish, featuring breathtaking underwater peaks, large fish shoals, beautiful carpets of anemone, gigantic corals, gorgonia, and other spectacular sights. This area is notorious for its large bryazoan, which could impede your diving enjoyment, so beware.
Hin Daeng: is close to Hin Mouang and so has similar features. Common sea creatures are morays, octopi, shrimps, crayfish, gray reef sharks, leopard sharks and barracudas. There may also be manta rays, whale sharks and nurse sharks if you are lucky.
Breakfast Bend: is a most famous site at Similan Island known for its turquoise and crystal clear water that provides amazing visibility of copious schools of fish. It's called breakfast bend because people usually make this their first diving site, usually after breakfast. You'll see leopard sharks, barracudas, surgeon fish, morays, trigger fish, scorpion fish, glass fish, emperor angelfish and other schools of fish.
For adventurous scuba divers, Thailand is the place to visit.
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