Dive Safari Phuket Phi Phi
The spectacukar Phi Phi Islands lie around two hours from Phuket. White limestone crags splashed with greenery jut vertically upwards out of the clear turquoise waters to tower over magnifcent white sandy beaches.Ko Phi Phi was made famous by the movie "The Beach"
The Phi Phi Islands offers a lot of many good dive sites, which are good for diving all year round.
Dive Highlights around Phi Phi Island :
Bida Nay / Bida Nog
The prime two spots in the southwest section, where large rocks form a mountainous terrain, featuring walls that drop to elevated ledges. There are many Gorgonian Sea Fans, Sea Whips and colorful Soft Corals. Lots of Bearded Scorpion Fish disguise themselves amid the rocks, and various species of Lion Fish hover between. Varying sizes and species of colorful Parrotfish and Wrasse, along with large shoals of Moorish Idols, seem to be at all depths. The higher ledges have numerous Sea Anemones well populated by Clownfish. On top of all this you can very often find Leopard Sharks over the sand and various Blennies and Gobies. Even Manta Rays and Whale Sharks are often found here!
Garang Haeng
It is one of the favorite dive sites around Phi Phi Island . It is famous for it's large shoals of Fish, Soft Corals, Hard Corals and there is a 99% chance to see Leopard Sharks!
Hin Dot
This, conditions permitting, is a great multi-level dive. The pinnacle is dominated by three interesting shelves- at 3m, 12m and 15m. This provides ample and varied underwater scenery at all levels as you spiral upwards. There are good Soft Corals at all depths. The Hard Corals are represented by tubes and laminates. The deeper sctions of the walls have numerous oysters and calms clinging to, and embedded in, the craggy surface.Many Reef Fish can be seen including Lunar Wrasse, Parrot Fish, Honeycomb Grouper, Spot Fin and Indian Lion Fish. Bearded Lion Fish lurk among the coralline-encrusted rocks awaiting their prey of tiny fish.
Dive Sites betwen Phuket and Phi Phi Islands
Shark Point, a small rock, is a marine sanctuary due to its tremendous variety of marine life. Particular attractions you should look out for are the colorful soft corals and sea fans decorating the limestone pinnacle, the great range of tropical fish and the famous leopard sharks.
The Anemon reef will be amazed at its extensive fields of sea anemones. Harmless leopard sharks are also to be found together with some massive schools of smaller fish and some larger pelagic such as tuna and barracuda.
The King Cruiser Wreck, a 85 m catamaran passenger ferry, with it's multiple decks, great open passages and depths between 12 and 30 meters is an ideal wreck dive site for all divers.
Ko Doc Mai provides some of the best wall diving in the area with sea fans, soft corals and colorful sea life decorating its underwater cliffs.
