Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · The Similan Islands

🇹🇭 Breakfast Bend

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

The sheltered east side of Similan 9 — soft coral on a gentle slope, and the dive the boat does before anyone has eaten.

Dives here
1
Deepest
20.5 m
Water
salt
First · last
2013

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Hard and soft coral slope 5–20 mBoulder ridge 5–25 mSandy bottom 25–30 m, garden eels↓10 m↓20 m↓30 mDrift along the reef, with the current · 722 mLarge boulders↓5 mLarge boulder↓22 mHard coral heads↓10 mHard coral heads↓14 mHard coral heads↓18 mHard coral heads↓5 mN50 m
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Site map · 6 objects · 1 path · max 30 m

The reef at the eastern point of Ko Bangu (Similan 9): a gentle hard and soft coral slope from about 5 m to the sand at 25–30 m, a boulder ridge to the north and scattered coral heads, on the OpenStreetMap coastline; positions are approximate. Sand with garden eels and the drift along the reef from Raya Divers site descriptions; the drift runs either way with the current.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

Logged as Breakfast Bay; the site is Breakfast Bend, on the east side of Ko Bangu, Similan Island 9. It is the sheltered side: a gentle slope of hard coral, soft coral and sea fans from about 5 m to 30 m, no current to speak of, and the reef running north along the coast for a long way.

The name is operational. Liveaboards moored at Island 9 overnight dive it as the first dive of the day, before breakfast.

Dived 24 November 2013 to 20.5 m, between Three Trees and North Point — all three at Island 9.

The workbook previously placed this at Ko Miang, Island 4, with a note that it might be Breakfast Bend at Island 9. The other two dives that day settle it: the boat was at Island 9.

Dived here with

Kim

Nearby sites

1 dive at Breakfast Bend

  1. 24 Nov 2013 with Kim boat date24 Nov 2013 depth20.5 m time51 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)