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Phi Phi Scuba Diving Center offeriert Ihnen eine grosse Palette an verschiedenen
Tauchgaengen rund um Phi Phi Island. 
Mit unseren eigenen Tauchbooten absolvieren  wir zur Zeit Tauchgaenge an drei 
verschiedenen Oertlichkeiten.

	Tauchtrips zu den Lokalen Tauchplaetzen rund um  Phi Phi Island.
	Wir offerieren Ihnen drei Tauchgaenge beim King's Cruiser  Wrack in der naehe von Phuket.

Fuer tiefere und aufregendere Tauchgaenge bietet sich der Hin Muang / Hin Daeng Trip an, welchen  wir mit unserem eigenen Speedboot absolvieren.

 

Lokale Tauchplätze...

Phi Phi Scuba Diving Center offeriert Ihnen eine grosse Anzahl an Tauchgaengen
um Phi Phi Island. Entnehmen Sie bitte der folgenden Karte die Tauchplaetze um 
Phi  Phi Don und Phi Phi Ley!

 

Dive Highlights um Phi Phi Island...

Shark Point ***

Oertlichkeit: Dieser Tauchplatz ist ein kleines Riff, ca.8km suedoestlich von  Phi Phi Ley. 
Die Spitze des Riffs erhoeht sich bis ca. einen Meter ueber den Meeresspiegel.

Dieser leichte Tauchgang fuehrt entlang von Steinformationen, welche sich haufenweise
ueberlagern. Die maximale Tiefe geht noerdlich bis auf 18m, wo eine Sandflaeche den
Abschluss bildet. Beim Shark Point gibt es fuer Taucher viel zu sehen; farbenvolle
Riff-Fischschwaerme, wie blaue Snapper und Harlekin-Suesslippenfisch, farbenreiche
Plume-Wuermer und Federsterne. 
Der Name dieses Tauchplatzes kommt von der praesenz von Leoparden Haien. Es sind auch
viele Sepien, Kalmares und Titan Drueckerfische zu sehen. Grosse, goldene Moraenen,
Lobsters und Tintenfische, welche sich in den Oeffnungen der Steinbloecke verstecken.

Bida Nay / Bida Nog ***

Oertlichkeit: Zwei grosse Steinbloecke bilden diesen Tacuhplatz, direkt suedlich von Phi Phi
Ley.

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. As if this were not enough, this site
offers, over the sand, Leopard Sharks and various blennies and gobies. Another bonus is that
Manta Rays and Whale Sharks are often here.

Garang Heng ***

Location: This three star dive site is a submerged circular coral reef about 2km east of Phi Phi
Ley. 

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 ***

Location: This three star dive site is a submerged pinnacle off Koh Phi Phi Don's southwestern
headlands.

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 are evidence , including Lunar Wrasse, parrot fish, Honeycomb Groupers and
Spot fin and Indian Lion fish. There are Bearded Scorpion fish, too, lurking among the
coralline-encrusted rocks as they await their prey of tiny fish.

 

Cave Dive ***

Location: This three star dive site is a open cave behind Phi Phi Don called Wang Long.

You should have done this cave dive once in your live!
Follow us down to 16m depth, where the tunnel to the open cave starts. After a 30m dive you will
end up in an open cave, where you can breath fresh air, take a look around and remove the gear
for a short walk.
This dive, we do usually in the afternoon for those who wish to go after the local trip earlier the
day.

 

Night Dive ***

Come and enjoy a dive with us when it's dark. There is a complete different marine life in the
night time. Usually we do the night dive at Huraget.

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Kings Cruiser, Anemone Reef and Shark Point Phuket...

On 4th of May 1997, the King Cruiser car ferry bottomed on Anemone Reef. Some 
17 minutes later it was settling down for the remainder of its existence in 32m of water.

 

About the dive sites...

King Cruiser ***

The structure of King Cruiser attracts a high diversity of marine life and the formation of an
artificial reef is well underway; numerous invertebrates have taken to shelter beneath small
sheets of peeling paint and morays lie in wait under rows of seats, now acting as lairs.
Around the barnacle-encrusted frame are schools of juvenile fish which seemingly increase in
size and number with every visit. Daylight penetrates the majority of the wreck but there is still a
number of areas that would be better explored with the aid of an artificial light source. 

Shark Point Phuket ***

Shark Point consists of three pinnacles lying north to south which between them have a high proportion of both hard and soft corals in all depths. All manners of reef residents animate the otherwise fixed patterns of color. Sea anemones for instance sway back and forth in mild currents and wave erratically in stronger flowers. Between the pinnacles the seabed is fairly barren. The Leopard Sharks rest here and many a diver have had the wonderful experience of observing at close hand this harmless bottom feeder. A required interaction continues at the sites many cleaning stations which are hosted by a multitude of cleaning fish and shrimps. Regular customers include a variety of snappers, jacks, trevally, mackeral and the occasional barracuda.

Shark Point Marine Sanctuary

Shark Point Marine Sanctuary consists of Shark Point and Anemone Reef which is 1km to the north-west. Designated a Marine Sanctuary in 1992, the sheer profusion of marine life here is justification enough for protected status. The marine park zone extends of a radius of 2.5km around the western limit of Shark Point and all commercial fishing, collecting of marine life, or other harmful activity is prohibited. Official mooring buoys have been installed but if they are in use (which is often the case, given the popularity of these sites), divers must utilize a live-boat dive. On no account should anchors be dropped here.

 

Anemone Reef ***

Next to Shark Point Phuket is a completely submerged pinnacle referred called Anemone Reef.
The pinnacle is now only the half the size of what it used to be, but the marine life has stayed put
and relocated to host a different sea anemone, or slithered into the confides of another rocky
ledge or crevice; the concentration of marine life throughout the site has seemingly increased
two-fold.
The shallowest part sits in a mere seven meters below the water's surface and is literally covered
in sea anemones hosted by numerous species of clown fish, though closer inspection reveals
even more symbiotic residents including tiny Anemone crabs and clear Cleaner shrimps, only
visible by their translucent internal organs. As far as the corals go enormous healthy Gorgonian
sea fans backdrop hovering prides of Indian lionfish and large clusters of radiant soft corals
more than adequately disguise paired Harlequin ghost pipe fish. 

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Hin Muang and Hin Daeng

These two undersea mountains received their names from the hues of red corals and 
purple sea anemones that adorn their rocky faces. The two open ocean sites act as natural
magnets to an expanse of pelagic fishes as they are attracted into the area by a variety of 
reef inhabitants.

 

 

 

 

About the dive sites...

Hin Muang*****

The best way to describe this rocky mass, which in English, translate as Purple Rock, is as the
submerged sister of Ayres Rock, Australia. A series of six pinnacles is interconnected in depths
ranging between sixteen and eight meters beneath the surface a rich garden of purple sea
anemones carpets the top of the predominant pinnacle, this not only gives this rock its name but
provides one of the most enjoyable sections of the site.
Hin Muang is renowned as being one of the best diving destinations in the country and for that
matter the deepest. A sheer wall descends to reach a narrow platform at forty meters below the
waters surface before it plummets down further, to more than seventy meters. The walls
themselves are fairly barren and are really highlighted by scattered sea fans and orange
encrusting sponges. There is a number of narrow valleys breaking the otherwise solid
infrastructure, where the rocks' appearance changes for the better, as the walls are almost
completely obscured by soft corals and sea fans which take advantage of these narrow avenues
of current by extracting a higher quantity of nutrients from the flowing waters. The corals are not
without their attractions, the likes of Long nose hawk fish, Dendronephthya crabs and in deeper
waters Black coral shrimps all abound.

A prominent cavern measuring around fifty meters is found about halfway along the center and
longest section of the structure. This does not cut the through the rock as the others do, but it
follows along its length, splitting the infrastructure, rather than dividing it. When mooring lines
secure to this point and can usefully serve as guidelines in the stronger currents, which can rage.

This is the divers preferred section of the site, not because it is the only part of the site that can
be reached, but because of the marine life and corals found in the gorge especially at night, and
especially invertebrates.
Painted rock lobsters guard narrow shelves and tunnels in the walls, and the eyes of cleaner
shrimps and minute reef crabs throw back the light in the form of tiny red dots. On a lager, or
more accurately, longer scale, giant morays cause a temporary increase in divers air
consumption as they abandon their lairs to participate, along with the motionless Bearded
scorpion fish in nocturnal hunting. 

Hin Daeng*****

A mere five hundred meters separates this site from Hin Muang. Unlike its neighbor, Hin Daeng,
or in English Red Rock slightly breaks the water's surface, but only at low tide. Its name comes
courtesy of the hues of red Dendronephthya soft corals blanketing its upper slopes and walls.

There are regiments of charging Titan trigger fish in the shallower waters to avoid; its as if they
haven taken it upon themselves to act as guards to the rock, watching out for any would be
intruders that might touch or attempt to touch with intent of damage. Beyond, the rock continues
its journey as a series of walls with intermittent shelves at varying depths; these descend to a
sand substrate floor averaging thirty five meters and in some places dropping well beyond the
reach of any sensible, safety conscious diver. A point to note at this site are depth gauges; clear
water magnifies the actual position of the bottom, making it seem nearer and therefore shallower
than it really is.

The diversity of every day reef life is grand and includes tiny invertebrates, many of which tend to
a variety of moray eels, picking out trapped scraps of food from between their teeth; others
concentrate on removing unwanted parasitical intruders. Sweeping schools of Red, Yellow and
White snappers. Resident juvenile Nurse sharks can be occasionally observed in a small cave at
a depth of ten meters in the southwest wall. Other sharks seen around the rock, especially the
shallower southern section, include Leopard sharks. Small groups tend to chase after one
another, cat and mouse-style around and between the pinnacles. A good concentration of
invertebrates and cephalopods also share this somewhat restricted area including a variety of
moray eels, mantis shrimps and cuttlefish.  

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