A Non-Stop Fish Soup in the Mergui Archipelago: A Myanmar Diving Trip Report
This last Myanmar diving trip has been a non-stop fish soup all around the Mergui Archipelago!
Schools of fish worthy of world-class diving… Lucky ones on board: Emilie, Alexandre, Annick and Jean-Luc from France; Wouter and Aart from the Netherlands; Janel and Oliver from the USA; Alex from the Philippines; and Bernhard and Martina from Austria.
A non-stop fish soup all around the Mergui Archipelago!
Life on the reefs: fish everywhere you look
Life on the reefs was unbelievable. You didn’t know where to look!
Stonefish and a school of glassfish.
Yellowtail fish among the sea fans.
Incredible schools of jacks! Thousands… hundreds… who can tell?!
Incredible schools of jacks — thousands, hundreds… who can tell?!
Barracudas…
A school of barracudas in Burmese waters.
Rainbow runners, snappers, batfishes…
Rainbow runners in the Mergui Archipelago.
Batfish on a reef in Myanmar.
Beautiful corals and spectacular reefs
And then there were the beautiful corals of all types…
Sea fans and colourful coral in the Mergui Archipelago.
A scorpionfish among colourful soft corals.
Sea fan and mushroom coral in the Mergui Archipelago.
A macro photography week
It has been macro photo week 😉
A bunch of photographers with huge cameras, happy with our great room just for them!
A bunch of photographers with huge cameras, making good use of the dedicated photo room onboard.
Spending hours exchanging tips, advice, information, pictures… and so much more!
Hours of exchanging tips, advice, information and pictures.
Their objective = everything smaller than 1 centimetre!
Here are some of them!
A tiny yellow sea snail, less than 1 centimetre long.
A tiny sea crab, less than 1 centimetre long.
Less than 1 centimetre, but so much to discover!
And a little bit bigger 😉
Crab or shrimp? Can you guess…?
And a shrimp made of glass!
New creatures and fantastic macro encounters
Some awesome new creatures were found this week!
A giant frogfish 🙂
A giant black frogfish.
And a pinecone fish one!!!
A pinecone fish — another fantastic macro find.
And among all these, our sweet, sweet juveniles trying to hide!
A juvenile seahorse trying to hide among the reef.
A juvenile ghost pipefish in the Mergui Archipelago.
A juvenile frogfish hiding on the reef in Myanmar.
Juveniles can be masters of hiding — a seahorse, a ghost pipefish and a juvenile frogfish.
Our favourite psychedelic nudibranchs and flatworms…
Our favourite psychedelic nudibranchs and flatworms.
Mantis shrimp with their crazy eyes!
Mantis shrimp and those crazy eyes!
Some encounters are less welcoming…
The ones who are never, never happy to see us!
Can you see what is hiding here? A stonefish, red and bad humour…
Another well-camouflaged stonefish hiding among the reef.
Some other very nice encounters
Nurse shark again in our secret spot!
Nurse shark again in our secret spot!
Spanish dancers…
This Spanish dancer takes a rest…
Seahorses and ghost pipefish…
So uncommon ghost pipefish…
A beautiful tiger-tail seahorse.
A turtle…
A curious sea turtle looking at us…
A gigantic lobster… and so much more!!!
A gigantic lobster… and so much more!
So much beauty in every little thing down there!
So much beauty in every little thing down there.
Beautiful above the surface, too
And also above the surface…
The Mergui Archipelago is beautiful above and below the surface.
All of this explains the smiles on everybody’s faces!
So happy after so many wonderful dives!
And let’s finish with the wonders of Mother Nature…
One last view of the wonders of Mother Nature in the Mergui Archipelago.
Discover more…
- Mergui Archipelago — discover the spectacular islands and dive sites of this remote Myanmar destination.
- Myanmar diving — explore the underwater world of Burmese waters.
- Myanmar liveaboard diving holidays — discover our liveaboard trips in Myanmar.
- Best dive sites in Burma/Myanmar — discover more of the region’s famous underwater sites.
- Underwater photography in Myanmar — useful information for photographers exploring the Mergui Archipelago.
- Marine fauna of the Andaman Sea — discover more of the remarkable marine life found in the region.
