Dennis Bakhuis

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🇹🇭 Turtle Rock

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

The north-west corner of Similan 8, where coral on rock gives way to reef patches and a sand floor at twenty-five metres.

Dives here
1
Deepest
16.7 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

Boulders 8–20 mBoulders and coral along the reef 10 mSand bottom 25 m↓10 m↓20 m↓25 mRocks breaking the surface↓0 mBoulder↓8 mBoulders↓16 mBoulder↓20 mN50 m
  • Pinnacle / rock
  • Shoreline
  • Depth contour
  • Sand
  • Other area
  • Depth
Site map · 4 objects · max 25 m

The north-west corner of Ko Similan (Similan 8): rocks breaking the surface at the corner, boulders from 8 m to 20 m around them, a line of boulders and coral along the west reef at 10 m, and the sand at 25 m, on the OpenStreetMap coastline, so positions are approximate. The reef patches further west named in the site description are not drawn because their place is unknown.

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

On the north-west of Ko Similan, Island 8 — the largest island in the group and the one with Sail Rock on it. The site is a mix: a rocky side carrying coral communities, patches of reef to the west, and a sand bottom at about 25 m, with the rocky area averaging 15–20 m.

Dived 23 November 2013 to 16.7 m.

Dived here with

Kim

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  1. 23 Nov 2013 with Kim boat date23 Nov 2013 depth16.7 m time46 min water—