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Dive sites

 

Koh Tao offers 25 dive sites all within close proximity to the Island. The average depth is 14-18m, with offshore sites reaching 30m+. Check it out...

 

Shark Island

Max depth:28m
Visibility:5-30m
Av. depth:15m
Level:Open water +
Features:huge boulders & rock formations, stunning soft corals. Drift diving for the experienced.
Marine life: resident turtle, great barracuda, titan and clown triggerfish.

 

 

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Hin Wong Pinnacle

Max depth:40m
Visibility:15-20m
Av. depth:17m
Level:Open Water+
Features:tabletop rock formation covered with a variety of hard and soft corals.
Marine life: Hawksbill turtles, snappers, sweetlips, porcupine pufferfish, juvenile boxfish.

 

Mango Bay

Max depth:16m
Visibility:5-20m
Av. depth:10m
Level:beginner+
Features: only accessible by boat, perfect dive site for 1st timers with a sandy bottom and shallow reef.
Marine life: reef fish, puffers, moray eels
 Yellow box fish 

White Rock

Max depth:20m
Visibility:10-30m
Av. depth:12m
Level:Open Water+
Features:a wide band of coral reef with an impressive diversity of hard and soft corals.
Marine life: wrasse, butterfly fish, angel fish, morays, clown fish and triggerfish.

 

Nang Yuan Pinnacle

Max depth:19m
Visibility:5-30m
Av. depth:10m
Level:Open Water +
Features:a large boulder with swim-through arches and to the West a large cave to explore.
Marine life: giant whiptail rays, morays, pipefish, crabs, triggerfish and reef sharks.
 Titan trigger fish at a Koh Tao dive site 

Twins

Max depth:22m
Visibility:10-25m
Av. depth:12m
Level:Open Water +
Features:2 groups of granite rocks covered in corals and sponges, divided by sandy patches and a backdrop of colourful coral garden.
Marine life: blue spotted rays, juvenile blue-ringed and six-barred angelfish, clownfish, scorpionfish and pink anemones.

 

Green Rock

Max depth:28m
Visibility:10-30m
Av. depth:16m
Level:Open Water+
Features:a maze of swim-throughs, canyons, caverns and caves created by giant boulders.
Marine life: yellow-margin and titan triggerfish, trevalies, cobias, stingrays, occasional reef shark sightings.
 Scorpion fish 

Japanese Gardens

Max depth:14m
Visibility:10-15m
Av. depth:10m
Level:beginner+
Features:hundreds of hard and soft coral formations creating the impression of an oriental garden.
Marine life: abundance of small coral fish and a variety of nudibranchs.

 

 

Chumphon Pinnacle

Max depth:40m
Visibility:20-30m
Av. depth:24m
Level:experienced Diver
Features:4 granite pinnacles carpeted with anemones.
Marine life: whale sharks (seasonal), giant grouper, barracuda and bat fish.
 Butterfly fish 

South West Pinnacle

Max depth:33m
Visibility:10-30m
Av. depth:20m
Level:Advanced+
Features:a collection of pinnacles with a unique topographical arrangement, giant fan corals.
Marine life:  whale sharks, giant grouper, barracuda, occasional leopard sharks.

 

Sail Rock

Max depth:45m
Visibility:15-35m
Av. depth:30m
Level:all levels
Features:huge rock chimney with an amazing vertical swim-through that ascends from 18m to 8m.
Marine life: large pelagics, king mackerel, kingfish, tuna likely for sightings of whale sharks.
 Christmans tree worms 

The Unicorn Wreck

Max depth:48m
Visibility:0-25m
Av. depth:44m
Level:Decompression divers
Features:Medium sized cargo vessel with forward mast, open cargo holds and rear bridge.
Marine life: Soft fan corals, giant grouper, crabs and occasional whale sharks on ascent.