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Water sports & diving in Koh Samui
Diving
The Gulf of Thailand is a great place to try diving, get
certified or sample some of its great reefs on half or one
day dive trips. If you have never dived before there are
many options
available. Discover Scuba Diving gets you
straight in the water with an instructor and can take as
little as half a day. If you enjoy this and want to learn,
you can choose to gain full certification by taking the Open
Water Diver course.
The operator will offer you a choice of options for
completing the course - different locations, boats and even
islands. The course takes only four days and will give you
an international PADI diving license with which you can go
diving all over the world. For the certified diver, you will
find the operators on Samui offering a choice between trips
to the National Marine Park, Sail Rock and Koh Tao.
These are day trips with travel times between one and three hours by boat. The National Marine Park is a beautiful archipelago, with the best diving and clearest waters offered by the islands to the far north called Koh Wao and Hin Nippon Yai and Lek. Further north, Sail Rock is the best-known site in the Gulf, offering a wall dive on the rock, while Koh Tao offers a choice of over 20 dive sites for all experience levels.
Sailing
Thanks largely to the success of the third annual Samui
Regatta, sailing in Samui is becoming increasingly popular.
The island has excellent weather conditions for sailing - a
good all-year-round breeze that is a solid northeasterly
between December and April, and a more challenging strong
westerly with the occasional violent gust between May and
November. Craft available for a day on the ocean waves
include yachts, catamarans and more modest windsurf boards.
Kayaking
You can glide across the water’s surface near Samui’s shores
or around the cave-riddled islands of Ang Thong National
Marine Park. Sea kayaks are very stable and easy to use. A
number of hotels in Chaweng rent kayaks, and several
kayaking companies can arrange a full day tour complete with
guides and kayaks in the marine park.
KOH YIPPON
Located in the very north of the Angthong Marine
National Park Koh Yippon, is a picturesque rocky island
covered in tropical trees. Once you peer under water, you
will find plenty of beautiful hard and soft coral, sea
anemones and stunning purple barrel sponges - easy to spot
even in shallow waters, so this location is an excellent
place to combine snorkeling and scuba diving.
While the snorkeler is exploring the exciting small caves
and crevices in shallow water, the diver can enjoy big
schools of fusiliers, come across a couple of big snappers
or have a look under the rocks and corals to find blue
spotted stingrays.
There are also big schools of small yellow tailed barracudas
and lots of blue ringed angelfish. As the maximum depth here
is about 18m, Koh Yippon is the perfect dive site for
inexperienced divers or beginners.
One of the biggest
advantages of this dive site is its shelter during the
northeast monsoon season, so even if the sea might be a bit
rough, Koh Yippon still offers calm areas to enjoy an
unforgettable day’s diving and snorkeling.
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