Simlan is quite far away from Phuket center, there was a car that came and picked us up 5.40 am and then drove us 2 hours up to the north of the island. From there we took a speedboat for another 1.5 hours before arriving at the big boat. It was a 4 floor huge yacht with pretty much everything, rooms, food, toilets, showers, all diving gear you can imagine and a lot of people. The dives were both deep dives, went down to 34 meters. The reef was beautiful, really colorful and the sight was excellent!! This was my top 2 dive ever! So far Gato Island in Philippines is still the best ever! The only sucky part about the first dive was that on 12 meters the camera case started leaking water and broke the camera. Luckily I had an extra one that fitted the same case.
Our boat, the right one
Similan Island Nr. 7
Top deck for tanning, floor was about 100 degree warm
Finland snow mixed rain and -2 degree, Beijing snow and -5....Easy choice to come here
The gear on first floor
The color is not right on all the pictures, some should be more colorfull but down on 30 meters it looks better live than on cam
Just about to reach 30 m
The chorals were forming cave like patterns
Down deep, even though on 30 meter can still see the surface in the background
Coming out of the cave
Fish!!!
Was quite a lot of divers
Like mushrooms on the bottom
Choral wall @ 28 meters
Found a huge manet in between a huge chorral, thanks for the torch Eveonne, would not have seen this otherwise
So beautiful landscape, should be more colorful than this deep blueish shade
From inside the cave
Fish having lunch :D
The gate to nothingness
3 minute safety stop
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