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A corridor opening through a wall of silver fish at Sail Rock.

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Diving photos
from Koh Phangan

This is what diving in Koh Phangan actually looks like: turtles, whale sharks and smiles underwater. Every photo here was taken on our own trips out of Chaloklum.

Sail Rock & the whale sharks

The big blue

A whale shark gliding through open blue water at Sail Rock.
Sail Rock · whale shark
A whale shark passing above a group of divers.
Sail Rock · eye level
Snorkellers at the surface above a whale shark and a bait ball.
Sail Rock · from above
A tornado of barracuda spiralling overhead.
Sail Rock · barracuda
A corridor opening through a wall of silver fish.
Sail Rock · bait ball
Barracuda hanging beside the granite of Sail Rock.
Sail Rock · the pinnacle
An enormous school of jacks circling in open water.
Oil Platform · jacks
Two divers swimming into a dense wall of trevally.
Oil Platform · into it

Koh Ma & Little Sail Rock

The small stuff

Healthy hard-coral bommies with clouds of reef fish.
Koh Ma · coral garden
A pair of clownfish in a carpet anemone.
Koh Ma · clownfish
A yellow boxfish over anemones and soft coral.
Little Sail Rock · boxfish
A hermit crab crossing pale sand.
Koh Ma · hermit crab
A translucent jellyfish trailing long tentacles.
Blue water · jellyfish
Reef rock crowded with fish and a bait ball above.
Little Sail Rock · reef
Fish moving over a pale sandy bottom.
Koh Ma · the sand

Which fish is which? See our marine life guide

The boat and the people on it

Above water

The red dive boat Rungworawan with divers in the water beside her.
Rungworawan · on station
Sail Rock breaking the surface, seen over the bow of the boat.
Sail Rock · from the bow
The dive boat at her mooring under a cloudy sky.
Chaloklum · mooring
Four student divers holding position together in mid-water.
Training · together
A diver surrounded by a dense school of silver fish.
Sail Rock · surrounded
A diver following a rock wall with a torch.
Little Sail Rock · the wall
A diver hovering above pale sand in shallow water.
Koh Ma · first dive
A smiling person lying in the shallows on a bright beach.
Chaloklum · after the dive

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Rent an underwater camera for 600฿, or have your instructor film your dive for 800฿. Bring a camera if you have one — we will point you at the good stuff.

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