Dennis Bakhuis

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🇹🇭 North Point (Rocky Point)

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

The northern tip of the archipelago, where the boulders form narrow chimneys you fit through one at a time.

Dives here
1
Deepest
23.4 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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Giant boulder formation 20–40 mBouldersBoulders 5–15 m↓10 m↓20 m↓30 mBoulder top↓5 mBoulder top↓5 mChimneys and swim-throughs 5–20 m↓15 mSea fans in the deeper channels↓25 mCurrent round the pointN50 m
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Site map · 4 objects · max 30 m

The northern tip of Ko Bangu (Similan 9): boulders lying parallel to the shore and getting deeper, two tops at 5 m with the chimneys and swim-throughs between them, and a giant boulder formation from 20 m to 40 m with sea fans in its channels, on the OpenStreetMap coastline, so positions are approximate. Chimneys from first-hand observation, the swim-throughs and fan corals from IDC Phuket and Raya Divers descriptions; current runs round the point.

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

North Point, also called Rocky Point, is the northern end of Ko Bangu, Similan Island 9, and so the northernmost dive in the Similan group proper.

The granite here is stacked into narrow vertical gaps rather than the wide caverns of Elephant Head: there are several chimneys you go up or down one diver at a time, which is the reason people rate it. Depths from 5 m to about 30 m, with current round the point.

Dived 24 November 2013 to 23.4 m.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at North Point (Rocky Point)

  1. 24 Nov 2013 with Kim boat date24 Nov 2013 depth23.4 m time50 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)