Trip report: South to North Andaman cruise from the 14th to 21st of November 2022

South Andaman Diving: Koh Lipe, Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock

Another great trip diving in the Andaman Sea in Thailand! Fourteen guests from all around the world embarked with big smiles aboard the MV Smiling Seahorse in Phuket, ready to start cruising towards the spectacular South Andaman.

Another great trip diving in the Andaman Sea in Thailand. 14 guests from all around the world embark with a big smile on the boat in Phuket and happy to start cruising South.

trevallies jackfish — School of trevallies

Spadefishes Batfishes — Spadefishes (Batfishes)

Congratulations to Sari from Finland and Blake from Australia, our two students from this trip, started straight away to study and managed to be certified Advanced Open Water Diver and Nitrox Diver after few days only !

Stonehenge coral reef — Amazing soft coral reef of Stonehenge – Tarutao National Park

Thank you to Koh Lipe and its beautiful dive sites and their beautiful creatures. We were lucky to discover a stone fish, two frog fish, plenty of coral catsharks, seahorses, razor fish and some colorful Nudibranchia.

Catshark — Coral catshark – Talang Steps Tarutao National Park

Time to cruise North and look on and in between the big granite boulders of the Similan National Park. Another frog fish, a ribbon eel, a curious eagle ray and some black tip reef sharks were spotted in the middle of millions of fishes swimming above the reef.

Granite boulders Similan — Granite boulders – Similan Islands

The Blackwater dive from this trip was great, and we spotted many tiny and strange critters.

Back to the limestone type of rock with the famous Richelieu Rock and its school of barracudas, trevallies, emperor for four dives. You don’t know where to look, in the blue for the dancing fishes, on the reef, covered by thousands of glass fish, for the beautiful peacock mantis shrimp, ghost pipefish and seahorse.