| Dive area / region : Burma - Myanmar - See the map |
 
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| Best diving season : January • February • March • April • November • December | |||||||||||||||||||
| Recommended number of days to stay : 5 to 7 days | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number of dive sites : More than 20 Dive Sites | |||||||||||||||||||
| Water temperature and wetsuit advice : 26C-… : Shorty or Thin Wetsuit | |||||||||||||||||||
| Average visibility : 21 - 25 meters | |||||||||||||||||||
| Average dives depth : 25 Meters | |||||||||||||||||||
| Type of currents : Medium level currents | |||||||||||||||||||
| Months when these currents are present : Tidal current all year long | |||||||||||||||||||
| General surface conditions : Generally flat surface | |||||||||||||||||||
| Wreck types : N/A |
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| Type of marine life : Anemone • Barracuda • Corals • Cuttlefish • Dolphins • Grouper • Jacks • Jelly fish • Lobster • Moray Eels • Nudibranch • Octopus • Plants • Rays • Reef Fish • Sea snakes • Sea urchins • Seahorses • Shark - Grey nurse • Shark - Leopard shark • Shark - Reef shark • Shark - Whale shark • Shrimps • Softcoral • Sponge • Squid • Star fish • Tuna • Turtles • Whales • Worms | |||||||||||||||||||
| Presence of caves / caverns : Yes - Open | |||||||||||||||||||
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Scuba Diving Mergui Archipelago - Myanmar
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Description
Awesome and diversified dive sites: diving in Mergui Archipelago, off the West coast of Myanmar (also known as Burma) is an amazing experience especially for experienced divers.
The sites are very diverse with caves, plateaux, soft and hard corals very divers macro life (Harlequin Shrimps, lobsters, nudis, ghost pipe fish, seahorses, Frog fish are found on every trip!
Swim-through, pinnacles, islands, soft coral, hard coral make dramatic setting .
Small stuff: harlequin shrimps, spanish dancers, ghost pipe fish, frog fish etc.. make lovely pictures
Big stuff: whale sharks, mantas, eagle rays... the wow factor bonus.
Western Rocky, Shark Cave, Black Rock, Seafan forest, North Twin are some of the best dive sites I have ever dove.
Camille from thesmilingseahorse.
The sites are very diverse with caves, plateaux, soft and hard corals very divers macro life (Harlequin Shrimps, lobsters, nudis, ghost pipe fish, seahorses, Frog fish are found on every trip!
Swim-through, pinnacles, islands, soft coral, hard coral make dramatic setting .
Small stuff: harlequin shrimps, spanish dancers, ghost pipe fish, frog fish etc.. make lovely pictures
Big stuff: whale sharks, mantas, eagle rays... the wow factor bonus.
Western Rocky, Shark Cave, Black Rock, Seafan forest, North Twin are some of the best dive sites I have ever dove.
Camille from thesmilingseahorse.
User reviews
Average user rating from: 2 user(s)
a dream come true
| Overall rating: | 4.8 | |
| Do you agree in general with the rating proposed by this web site? : | 1.0 | |
| Marine life: | 5.0 | |
| Visibility: | 4.0 | |
| Overall dive experience: | 5.0 | |
| Accessibility: | 5.0 | |
| Surface conditions: | 5.0 | |
| Worth travel to: | 5.0 | |
| Water purity: | 5.0 |
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
I had the best and most amazing holidays in my life! we saw turtles, sharks, jellyfish, rays, seahorses and even whale shark: a dream of mine!
Overfished, overhyped
| Overall rating: | 2.7 | |
| Do you agree in general with the rating proposed by this web site? : | 2.0 | |
| Marine life: | 3.0 | |
| Visibility: | 3.0 | |
| Overall dive experience: | 2.0 | |
| Accessibility: | 2.0 | |
| Surface conditions: | 3.0 | |
| Worth travel to: | 2.0 | |
| Water purity: | 4.0 |
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
One of the big pros is that quite often you will be the only dive group in the water and there are some sites like Fan Forest with beautiful corals. There are also sites with decent macro: shrimp, nudis etc.
However, the main criticism is that many dive sites were far from meeting expectations based on what I had read (and I don't want others to make the same mistake). There was a distinct lack of fish at the majority of dove sites and zero larger pelagic species. Many dive sites had tricky surface conditions and underwater currents. Visibility varied from dive site to dive site;
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