Advice on Diving in Thailand

... dives. It also acts as a gateway to some of the more challenging dives in Thailand, with speedboat and liveaboard trips leaving daily for Richelieu Rock and the Similan Islands. Home to the exciting attractions of the Shark Point Marine Sanctuary and the vibrant rocky reefs of Racha Yai, scuba diving in Phuket has an understandably well-deserved reputation. While the attractions of the Andaman Sea are plentiful, scuba diving in the Gulf of Thailand definitely shouldn’t be ignored. The island of Koh Samui, second largest after Phuket, is a veritable diver’s paradise and also boasts an in...