Dennis Bakhuis

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🇹🇭 The Moorings

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

Not a reef so much as an address — the overnight anchorage at Similan 9, dived three times because that is where the boat was.

Dives here
3
Deepest
24.2 m
Water
salt
First · last
2013 · 2013
Also known as
Moorings (Similan 9)

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 eelsBig granite boulders 22–25 m↓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 mBoulder↓18 mNational park moorings (approximate)N50 m
  • Buoy
  • Point of interest
  • Pinnacle / rock
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Site map · 7 objects · 1 path · max 30 m

The overnight anchorage off the sheltered east side of Ko Bangu (Similan 9): the Breakfast Bend reef to the south and the Three Trees boulders to the north, on the OpenStreetMap coastline. The national park moorings are placed only roughly, between the two reefs, from the site description and liveaboard pages naming Mooring Bay at Island 9.

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

Moorings is where the liveaboard tied up, not a named feature: the mooring field at Ko Bangu, Similan Island 9. Three dives are logged against it on 23 and 24 November 2013, to 24 m.

Dives like this are the connective tissue of a liveaboard week — the check dive on arrival, the dusk dive, the night dive, all done off the back of the boat on whatever reef happens to be under it. The reef under this one is the sheltered eastern shelf of Island 9, which is the same water as Breakfast Bend.

National park moorings exist so that boats do not anchor: dropping an anchor on Similan coral has been prohibited since long before the 2018 restrictions.

Dived here with

Claire Katy Kim

Nearby sites

3 dives at The Moorings

  1. 24 Nov 2013 with Claire, Katy nightboat date24 Nov 2013 depth22.4 m time55 min water—
  2. 23 Nov 2013 with Kim nightboat date23 Nov 2013 depth24.2 m time48 min water—
  3. 23 Nov 2013 with Kim boat date23 Nov 2013 depth24 m time45 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)