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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

Try Dives & courses

Our divers

Three Try Dive students holding the descent line in clear blue water while their instructor guides them.
Try Dive · going down the line
Three Try Dive students side by side in front of a rock wall, masks on, giving the OK sign.
Try Dive · first time underwater
A diver in a pink mask giving two thumbs up in the deep blue.
Deep & Nitrox course
Two Try Dive students on the descent line, both making the OK sign.
Try Dive · all OK
A Try Dive student on the descent line making a peace sign, with the sunlit surface above.
Try Dive · on the line
An Advanced student and his instructor smiling at a garden table after going over the exam.
Advanced · exam done

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

Want your own
photos like these?

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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