Phuket Diving Safaris

The Similan Marine National Park Islands are rated in the top 10 of the world's best dive sites. Phuket Diving Safaris have great pleasure in guiding you safely to the best dive sites in the Similan Islands and beyond, taking the spectacular dive locations of Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock too.

The Similan Islands consist of 9 islands. Most of the islands are about 20 to 30 minutes from each other by liveaboard boat. By speed boat it's only 10 to 15 minutes.

On our diving safari, on board the M/V Dolphin Queen, you get 14 dives - 11 day dives and 3 night dives. (Read more about the M/V Dolphin Queen on our liveaboards page).

This way you get to dive all the major dive sites in the Similan Islands. Here are just some of the dive sites you will dives

• Coral Gardens, (5m to 25m) island #1
• Bird Rock (14m to 40m) island #2
• Barracuda point (10m to 25m) island #5 + 6
• East of Eden (5m to 33m, maybe the best coral reef in Thailand)
• Deep Six (10m to 40m) island #7
• Beacon Reef (7m to 33m) island #8
• Breakfast Bend ,Christmas Point, & Fantasy Reef (10 to 40m) island #9
• Hin Pusa is Elephant Rock (15m 40m), a maze of swim-throughs, you can also see Whitetip & Nurse sharks

Koh Bon

After some of the best dive sites the Similan Islands have to offer, we head 16 km north from Similan Island #9 to Koh Bon.

This island is famous for Manta Rays. The dive site (5m to 35m depth) has a steep ridge and wall with lots of soft corals. Here you can expect to find leopard sharks, octopus and barracuda.

Koh Tachai

16 km north east of Koh Bon is Koh Tachai. One of the best dive sites in Thailand, Koh Tachai is often visited by manta rays and, if you are lucky, whale sharks. This dive site has barrel sponges and Gorgonian fan corals with giant granite boulders scattered around the dive site. Schools of barracudas and bat fish, leopard sharks, and rays are regularly seen here. An excellent dive site.

Richelieu Rock

30km north east of Koh Tachai is the famous Richelieu Rock. Here is your best chance to see whale sharks.

The dive site (5m to 40m depth) is a pinnacle covered in soft and hard corals, with lots of schools of fish. Groupers linger on the bottom, Barracudas circle above, thousands of glassfish circle around the pinnacle. An superlative dive site.