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Racha Noi, Banana Bay (★4.4)

Banana Bay is located on the east side of Racha Noi island. It consists of a sandy bottom and with hard coral. Depth inside the bay is 5-20 meters. If you swim away from the beach you can find 50 meters of depth.

Sea Bees Diving, 83130 Phuket

Racha Yai, Bay 1 (★4.5)

Bay 1 is located on the east side of Racha Yai Island. There are three wrecks to be explored at this dive site. Depths are between 5-25 meters and the white sandy beach is calm.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., Kamala

Koh Waeo North (★4.5)

Koh Waeo is a small island about 3 km out from the north end of Bangtao Beach. The island is small with little top-side vegetation. Underwater, however, the island is about 100 times larger than what you see from the surface. Around the site are many buoys installed to moor the boats.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., Kamala

Tin Lizzy (Wreck) (★4.5)

About 2 kilometers straight out from the middle of Bangtao Beach lies an old tin mining dredger or excavator. The wreck is surrounded with concrete blocks, making a huge artificial reef. This site is considered one the best dive sites along the west coast of Phuket.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., 83150 Phuket

Tai Pau (★4.3)

Tai Pau is very close to Kamala and consists of a bay with shallow sandy areas and a maximum depth of 12m. It is ideal for Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water courses and a reef lies just to the North with a maximum depth of 18m.

Sea Bees Nai Yang, 83110 Phuket

Stone Coral Garden (★4.3)

Stone Coral Garden is a shallow dive site that features a huge variety of hard corals from a depths of 12 meters all the way up to secret beach. Lots of fish are found here. Sun rays play between huge coral formations in an almost magical way.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., Kamala

Kamala Rock (★4.2)

Ten minutes northwest of Kamala Beach and only 300 meters from the shoreline is a group of boulders and rocks visible at low tide and completely submerged by high tide around full or new moon. The reef surrounding the rocks stretches almost 200 meters to the south. On the north side, you can reach 16 meters deep.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., Kamala

Koh Waeo South (★4.2)

Koh Waeo is a small island accessible from Kamala in 40 minutes by boat or a shorter ride from Bangtoa Beach. This little island offers a huge underwater reef and plenty of fish. Currents are moderate to light year round - a perfect site for beginners. To the south, you will find fields of soft coral.

Hobo-Ya Phuket, 83130 Phuket

Racha Noi, Marina Bay (★4.2)

Marina Bay is a dive site located on the western side of the North Island of Racha Noi. As you enter from the bay and head south, you'll see a dynamic landscape of rumbling megaliths overlapping each other. This is a popular dive site with swim-throughs dotted among the boulders to stimulate divers' sense of adventure. It is not uncommon for manta rays to appear.

Hobo-Ya Phuket, 83130 Phuket

Kata Beach North Reef (★4.2)

Kata Beach North Reef divers can avoid expensive boat trips to remote destinations throughout the diving season as this site is close and easy to get to. Different creatures move into different areas at different times; no two dives on Kata are ever the same.

Hobo-Ya Phuket, 83130 Phuket

Koh Doc Mai (★4.2)

Dock Mai Island is an island headed southeast from Phuket. You can dive on the east and west sides of the island. Depths are around 30 meters, and it is a wall dive all along the island. There are two large and one small cave on the east side at depths of 22M and 18M.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., 83150 Phuket

Nakaley (★4.0)

Nakaley reef is about 200 meter long. About 10 meters from the beach starts the reef stretching out into the sea 50 meters and running exactly from north to south. The reef gradually drops to 12 - 14 meters depth in front of a sandy bottom. The reef is good for beach diving or boat approach by sea.

Hobo-Ya Phuket, 83130 Phuket

Racha Yai, Bungalow Bay (★4.2)

Bungalow Bay is a calm dive site and very good for beginners, try scuba, and open water students. Depth ranges from 5-20 meters. There is no current or waves. An artificial reef is built here as well.

Merlin Divers Co., Ltd., 83150 Phuket

Koh Pu (★4.3)

Koh Pu (Crab Island), is a popular, accessible dive site suitable for all levels. Depths typically range from 10-20m. The east side features vibrant coral reefs, while the north and west offer dramatic large boulders. Expect to see abundant reef fish, elusive moray’s and Nudibranchs

Scubapro, Stephen Frink

Koh Hey/Coral Bay (★3.8)

This is a small bay with a small wreck at 8 meters. There are nice corals, and the dive slopes deeper toward the sand. Visibility can be from 3-5 meters, but on good days +20 m. It can be a nice drift dive to the south where the depth is up to 40.

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