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Location: Phi Phi

• Distance: 49 km (26 Miles)
• Boat Trip: 2, 5 Hour / Speedboat 40 mins
• Depth: 3-26 Meters (10-90 ft)
• Visibility: Fair to excellent
• Currents: slight to moderate
• Type of Dive: Soft Coral/Wall Dives/Caverns

Ideal for Multi Level, UW Photography, Naturalist

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The Phi Phi Islands are one of the most dramatically beautiful locations in the world. The scenery from the surface is absolutely stunning; emerald green overgrown limestone monoliths rising straight from the sea and soaring to heights of more than 500 meters. Underwater, these shapes are rugged, interesting formations for scuba divers, and over time the elements have created caves, overhangs, and swim-troughs’ in the soft limestone rock. Other dive profiles include vertical walls that plunge from the surface to over 25 meters. On these walls grows a profusion of soft corals, large orange-colored fans, black corals, and long stringy sea whips. There are several unusual types of coral that can only be found in the waters surrounding the Phi Phi Islands.
The Phi Phi Islands offer a remarkable variety of dive sites concentrated in a small area. One of the most popular dive sites is located at the Southern tip of the small island of Ko Bida Nok. In a shallow bay on the Eastern side of the island are found huge gardens of stag horn and star corals and incredible numbers of colorful reef fish. In spite of diving visibility often being limited to 15-25 meters the Phi-Phi Islands are likely to remain among the most popular diving locations Southeast Asia.

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Location 2: 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

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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.