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Marine Life

Marine Life

Have you heard the story about how Giant Manta’s like being tickled by a divers bubbles? If you have not, that’s good, because it is quite simply one of the worst myths to ever prevail in the diving industry, you are actually asphyxiating them, and this is why we created the “Marine Life” section, we hope to use this area to dispel myths and falsehoods about our favorite underwater critters and help promote fact based knowledge and safe diving practices so that we can protect the oceans most friendly, amazing and down right weird inhabitants.

Baby Seahorse Kata Beach Scuba Diving Phuket Marine Life

Has Kata Beach Dive Become A Serious Certified Divers Site?

In the past the Kata Beach dive was used more as a necessity and beginners dive rather than a dive site for certified divers. It is a dive site that can only be dived during the high season, October/November through to late April. The change of winds during the low season has the wind coming directly from the west and straight into the beach. These create high waves and increases underwater movement, reducing visibility and pushes trash into the dive site. The high season winds come from the east and make for better beach dive conditions. Kata Beach is quite a shallow dive site and given it proximity the heavily populated Phuket island, visibility is not always the best. However with some [...]

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Koh Bon Manta Ray Similan Islands Liveaboard Scuba Diving Marine Life

Manta Ray Party Happening at Koh Bon, Similan Islands

Book yourself a liveaboard trip now as there is a Manta Ray party happening at Koh Bon, 20 km north of the Similan Islands. Divers are reporting of loosing count of the number of different manta rays circling the famous west ridge pinnacle. Some are say it is as many as 10 and others are saying more. All are saying that they are putting on an amazing show for all levels of scuba divers. Large groups of manta rays are no strangers to the region and numbers of 25+ at a time have been recorded just over the border in Burma. Phuket scuba diving liveaboard boats do have regular trips to the Burmese portion of the Andaman Sea. We are quite fortunate in [...]

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Orca Whale_Patong Beach_Scuba Diving_Phuket_Thailand Marine Life

Orca Killer Whale Spotted Off Freedom Beach Patong, Phuket

the Phuket post is reporting that an Orca (Killer Whale) has been spotted off Freedom Beach, Patong on the 8th January 2016. Freedom Beach is is situated near Tri Trang Beach on the southern edge of Patong Bay Phuket. The Phuket Post wrote; The Orca or Killer Whales can be found in all oceans, from Arctic and Antarctic regions to tropical seas. Killer whales are highly social; some populations are composed of matrilineal family groups which are the most stable of any animal species, but there is only one single Orca seen in the picture. Suchart Ratthanareungsi, Director of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC) said, “It is surprising news that an Orca appeared in Phuket waters. It is now possible that [...]

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Eagle Rays Racha Noi Scuba Diving Phuket Aussie Divers Phuket Marine Life

Spotted Eagle Rays a regular at Racha Noi Islands

Right now at Koh Racha Noi, Phuket, Thailand we are regularly seeing whist scuba diving the beautiful White Spotted Eagle Rays. These are majestic creatures that are not all that common to the area and if found are normally at Racha Noi and Racha Yai Islands which are about 30 km south of Phuket. Belonging to the same family as the awesome manta rays, Eagle rays grow up to a maximum size of five meters in length and three meters wide. These gentle rays are very curious and usually stick around checking out the divers. Although they are usually seen alone we are seeing them in groups of two or three making for a fantastic diving experience. Koh Racha Noi is a [...]

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Minke Whale Phuket Scuba Diving Racha Yai Racha Noi Aussie Divers Phuket Marine Life

Minke Whales Sighted in Phuket

On Thursday this week a pod of Minke Whales were sighted between Racha Yai and Racha Noi Islands. Minke Whales are rare to the area however over recent years with the increased protection of whales in general throughout the world they are becoming more frequent here in the Andaman Sea. They have been reported in the past to reach between 9-10 metres in size. Feed back from those that have dived with Minke whales in the past say that they are amazing creatures to scuba dive with. Hopefully we will see more of them in the future and it will become not so rare to scuba dive with them. Book you Racha Yai and Racha Noi day trip with Aussie Divers Phuket. Phuket's best [...]

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Green Sea Turtle Similan Islands Liveaboard Holiday Aussie Divers Phuket Marine Life

Are Turtle’s the Coolest Underwater Creatures?

Recently whist scuba diving in Phuket we have had many opportunities to dive with turtles. Each Time I have seen turtles they have the appearance of being the coolest creatures under the water. No matter how many scuba divers are around they never seem to get ruffled and casually put on a show for scuba divers of all levels. Turtles can be a scuba diving instructors dream as the are reliably remain in the same territory, they remain mostly in shallow depths which make them easily accessible the those learning to scuba dive such as the PADI Discover Scuba Divers and PADI Open Water students. The Hawksbill turtle is often found at Phi Phi in the shallow waters of Malong Wall or [...]

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Moray Eel Racha Yai Scuba Diving Day Tip Phuket Aussie Divers Phuket Our Dives

When Scuba Diving in Phuket: What Will I See?

Whether you are learning to scuba dive with the PADI Discover Scuba Diving or the PADI Open Water Course or your are already certified and you are looking at doing a day trip or liveaboard adventure there are many amazing marine creatures to see under the water. Phi Phi probably has the most diverse range of marine life to see whilst scuba diving in the Phuket region. The diving especially around Bida Nok is world class and on any given day you could possible see some cool creatures like Hawksbill turtles, Leopard sharks, Black Tip reef sharks, cuttlefish and the big red reef octopus. There are many eels there as well including the giant moray, the fimbrilated moray, white eyed moray [...]

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