Interactive dive map of Phuket and the Andaman Sea
All 18 dive sites, by area.
Every site on the map, from the Racha Islands an hour off Chalong Pier to Richelieu Rock on the Myanmar border. Depth, level and type at a glance; open a site for the full brief, marine life and the trips that dive it.
Racha Islands
Racha YaiThe training ground of Phuket. Gentle slopes, sun-drenched sand, and hard coral so shallow it glows. Racha Yai is where most divers log their first Andaman dive — and it still rewards the hundredth.
Racha NoiRacha Yai's wilder sibling. Boulders the size of houses drop into deep blue at the South Tip; when current runs, the big animals arrive. This is a dive for divers.
Phi Phi Channel
Shark PointHin Musang to the locals. A marine sanctuary of three pinnacles smothered in soft coral and gorgonian fans, with leopard sharks napping in the sand at the base.
Anemone ReefHin Jom — 'submerged rock'. Every inch of this limestone pinnacle sways with anemones, and every anemone has a family of clownfish. A macro photographer's fever dream.
King Cruiser WreckA car ferry that struck Anemone Reef in 1997 and became Phuket's signature wreck. The upper decks have collapsed, so this is a swim-around dive — but the fish life inside the shell is astonishing.
Phi Phi
Koh Bida NokThe best of Phi Phi in one rock. Wall on one side, sloping reef on the other, sharks patrolling the shallows at dawn. If you dive Phi Phi once, dive Bida Nok.
Koh Bida NaiBida Nok's calmer neighbour. Same limestone drama, softer current, and a turtle that seems to be on every second dive.
Hin Bida'Phi Phi Shark Point'. A pinnacle that barely breaks the surface, with a plateau where leopard sharks rest in the sand like discarded rugs.
Similan Islands
Elephant Head RockHin Pusar. The Similans' signature — a jumble of granite boulders you thread like a three-dimensional puzzle, with sharks resting in the shade.
East of EdenThe prettiest reef in the Similans, built around a bommie so smothered in soft coral it has its own weather.
Christmas PointBoulders stacked into arches at the north of Island 9. Sea fans the size of doors, and the odd eagle ray gliding beneath them.
Koh BonThe Andaman's most reliable manta site. Hang on the West Ridge in 20 m, look out into the blue, wait.
Koh TachaiA submerged plateau that funnels current — and everything that rides it. Tachai is where the liveaboard crowd gets its whale shark stories.
