Koh Tao Dive Sites Due to the abundance of dive sites surrounding this beautiful island, Koh Tao is a great choice for your diving holiday no matter of your experience or needs the island will have a dive suitable for you.

 

Shark Island

 

• Granite Island
• Many Hard & Soft Corals
• Sweetlips, Neon Damsel, Butterfly Fish
• Mild to Strong Currents
• 10 to 30 Meters Visibility
• All Levels of Diver

Shark island is a must do dive site while visiting the gulf. Located off the south coast of Koh toa this site offers a variety of aquatic life including Ringed Angel, Long Fin Banner fish, and if you are lucky the odd resident Hawksbill Turtle. Giant boulders and rock formations give this site a great topography that is ideal for divers of all levels.

 

On this dive site look out in the blue for balling barracudas and at the deeper depths you may find Leopard and Reef Sharks. At the shallow end you'll find beautiful gardens of vividly colourful corals and anemones.

 

 

 

 

Green Rock

• Boulder Formations & Swimthroughs
• Assorted Hard & Soft Corals
• Turtles, Triggerfish, Long Fin Banner Fish
• Slight to Moderate Currents
• 8 to 25 Meters Visibility
• Advanced Divers

Green rock begins at 1m and drops off to 30m+ this site consists of boulder formations that offer an array of easy and wide tunnels and swim-throughs. These features make this dive site feel like you are exploring un charted waters.

Suitable for the adventurous or novice diver (novices should keep to the shallows) Green Rock gives you the chance observe beautiful parrot fish feeding on the main pinnacle close to the surface as well as a pair of file fish and a resident Hawksbill Turtles can also be seen and as always, keep a wary eye on the Triggerfish that nest in the sand. It is often possible to spot the less common Pink (or Yellow Margin) Triggerfish here as well.

 

White Rock

 

• Granite Pinnacle, Boulders, Sand & Shale
• Assorted Hard & Soft Corals
• Trigger Fish, Butterfly Fish, Rays, Moray Eels
• Slight to Moderate Currents
• 10 to 20 Meters Visibility
• All Levels of Diver

Situated 400 meters off the island White rock offers a great dive from beginners to intermediate levels. With depths ranging from 1 to 22 M

This dive site is spread over a large area and is full of life such as; Butterfly Fish, Parrot Fish, and the Red Breasted Wrasse are colourful companions as well as the beautiful Angel Fish. Titan trigger fish are notorious for tenaciously defending their nest from all who pass too closely here so be sure to keep an eye on them .If you're night diving it is common to see large barracuda joining you on the dive using your torch beam to help them feed. As always when night diving watch out for the colourful crustaceans.

 

Chumphon Pinnacle

 

• Granite Pinnacles & Boulder Formations
• A Few Assorted Hard & Soft Corals
• Whalesharks, Batfish, Sharks, Jacks, Anemone Fish
• Slight to Moderate Currents
• 10 to 30 Meters Visibility
• Advanced Divers

Chumpon Pinnacle is located 11km to the north west of Koh Tao and is know to be visited by large pelagic aquatic life such as whale sharks and reef sharks and is ranked as one of the best dive site in the region.

 

Made up from one huge granite pinnacle and a series of smaller ones, Chumphon's main difference to Sail Rock is that this site is completely submersed with the pinnacle starting at 14 meters below the surface and drops down to around 36m. Look out in the blue and you’ll find schools of barracuda, jacks and Bat fish. Also some of the biggest groupers in the gulf call the site home.

 

Twins

• 2 Rock Formations, 1 Smaller, Soft White Sand
• Assorted Hard & Soft Corals
• Butterfly Fish, Wrasse, Clown Fish, Tropicals
• Slight Currents
• 10 to 20 Meters Visibility
• All Levels of Diver

Twins is situated close to White rock and consists of two large and one smaller group of rocks with depths ranging from 3 to 18 meters

At the deeper end of the site you will find an enjoyable swim through with puffy fish hiding under table corals, white eyed moray eels and blue spotted stingrays.

On the shallower side of the deeper rock you'll find an entertaining family of Clark's Anemone Fish (Clown Fish) nestling on the sand. This is a great photo opportunity if you have a camera!

Twins is a dive site for all levels of diver and one of the more interesting dive sites around Koh Tao.

 

Southwest Pinnacle

• Broken Granite Pinnacles
• A Few Hard & Soft Corals
• Whalesharks, Reef Sharks, Large Groupers
• Slight to Moderate Currents
• 10 to 25 Meters Visibility
• Advanced Divers

South West Pinnacle is dived less then some of the other sites around Koh Tao and so it is quite possible you will be on the only dive boat at the site. The dive site itself consists of a series of steep pinnacles rising from the sandy seabed & offers an ample variety of marine life.

With depths ranging from 6 to 38 meters south west offers lots of surprises.

 

Around the outside of South West Leopard Sharks can be seen asleep on the sand as well as Blue Spotted Rays. The site also hosts the usual range of colourful tropical marine life such as Butterfly fish and Blue ringed Angelfish. The big stuff such as Jacks, Barracuda, Cobias and the occasional Whale shark can often be seen as well as it is one of the deeper water sites laying in similar depths to both Sail Rock and Chumphon’s Pinnacle. This makes it popular with the pelagics.