Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · The Similan Islands

🇹🇭 Deep Six

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

Boulders and pinnacles off the north tip of Similan 7, soft-coral covered, and one of the best of the granite sites.

Dives here
1
Deepest
28.2 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

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Boulder ridge 5–26 mBoulders 20–26 m↓10 m↓10 m↓20 m↓20 m↓30 mBoulder↓22 mBoulder↓24 mBoulder↓26 mBoulder↓12 mBoulder↓8 mRock breaking the surface↓0 mBoulder↓5 mBoulder↓20 mSwim-throughs 12–22 m↓17 mCurrent round the tipN50 m
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Site map · 9 objects · max 30 m

The boulder ridge running north off the tip of Ko Payu (Similan 7): a rock breaking the surface, boulder tops at 5, 8 and 12 m, swim-throughs at 12–22 m and the big boulders at 22–26 m at its outer end, with more boulders to the east. Drawn north up on the OpenStreetMap coastline, so positions are approximate. Swim-through depths from DiveZone.

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

Off the northern tip of Ko Payu, Similan Island 7. A field of pinnacles and boulder clusters running from 5 m down to 40 m, heavily dressed in soft coral and sea fans.

It is generally rated among the top two or three sites in the archipelago, and it is the one where the Similan pattern is clearest — the deeper you go on the west-facing granite, the bigger the rocks and the stronger the current.

Dived 25 November 2013 to 28.2 m.

Dived here with

Kim

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  1. 25 Nov 2013 with Kim boat date25 Nov 2013 depth28.2 m time41 min water—