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Location: King Cruiser

• Distance: 33 km (18 Miles)
• Boat Trip: 1,5 Hour / Speedboat 45mins
• Depth: 12-30 Meters (40-100 ft)
• Visibility: Fair to good
• Currents: Fair to moderate
• Type of Dive: Wreck Dive

Ideal for Nitrox, Multi Level, UW Photography, Naturalist, Deep Diver

Details:

Built in Japan 30 years ago, King Cruiser was a comfortable catamaran-hull passenger-cruiser with 4 decks until she sank on the 4th May 1997 by straying several miles off course and hitting the Anemone Reef in near perfect weather conditions. With a huge hole ripped in her hull the ship went down in less than an hour. The absolutely ideal weather conditions at the time of the accident no doubt greatly aided the rescue efforts and fortunately the several hundred passengers and crew on board at the time all managed to escape to safety. An easy pe, King Cruiser has large openings that allow easy access to the spacious interior. With its multiple decks and spacious open areas the King Cruiser wreck is providing sheltered living quarters for large numbers of fish and crabs. The propellers (deepest point) rest 30 meters deep with the most interesting areas around the passenger decks between 10 and 20 meters.

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Location 2: Anemone Reef

• Distance: 29 km (16 Miles)
• Boat Trip: 1,5 Hour
• Depth: 5-24 Meters (20-80 ft)
• Visibility: Fair to excellent
• Current: Fair to moderate
• Type of Dive: Site is complete submerged, starts about 5m./ Soft Coral

Details:

This unique dive-site is soars 30 meters up from the seafloor to just beneath the surface then abruptly ends and drops back to a bottom of sand and oyster shells.

This barely submerged reef is located less than a mile north of Shark Point. The Thai name for this site is Hin Jom (underwater rock). Although not as colorful as Shark Point this site is famous for its huge fields of sea anemones covering every conceivable surface and swing and sway with the current creating an illusion of it being a giant living rock.

The profusion of sea anemones and the nutrient-rich water are a magnet to a constant parade of reef fish seeking food and shelter. Enormous shoals of tropical fish, snappers, groupers, and colorful clown fish, along with larger game-fish like jack and barracuda, and the occasional leopard shark can be seen passing by. Anemone Reef is also famous as a site for to viewing lionfish sometimes encountered in groups of dozens or more at a time.

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Location 3: Koh Dok Mai

• Distance: 18 km (10 Miles)
• Boat Trip: 1 Hour
• Depth: 5-28 Meters (15-91 ft)
• Visibility: Fair to excellent
• Currents: moderate, there is always a sheltered side.
• Type of Dive: Wall dive, caverns

Details:

This small, jungle topped island is located on the way to Shark Point from Phuket and is considered one of the best wall dives in the area. Doc Mai is a huge limestone rock that rises steeply out of the sea.On three sides the sheer walls occupied with a different creature in every nook and cranny drop straight down to the sea floor. The west side is a gently sloping hard coral reef with an abundance of colorful sea life decorating its underwater cliffs. This dive is noted for its variety of reef fish and an opportunity to view some of the resident Moray Eels. The east-side of the island is a virtual garden of yellow tube corals and you can explore some of the small caves along the base of the wall.