Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · The Similan Islands

🇹🇭 West of Eden

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

The west side of Similan 7 — big boulders under giant sea fans, sloping into rubble and sand at thirty-five metres.

Dives here
1
Deepest
22.2 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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Big boulder, top 15 m, giant sea fansBoulder ridge, top 12 mBoulder ridge, top 12 mBoulders near shoreRubble and sand 30–35 m↓10 m↓20 m↓30 mBoulder↓16 mHard coral heads↓8 mHard coral heads↓10 mHard coral heads↓10 mN50 m
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Site map · 4 objects · max 32 m

The west side of Ko Payu (Similan 7): boulders near shore, hard coral heads in the shallows, two long boulder ridges with tops at 12 m and a big boulder with giant sea fans from 15 m down to the rubble and sand at 30–35 m, on the OpenStreetMap coastline (OSM names this island Ko Hin Busar), so positions are approximate. Deep Six lies round the corner to the north.

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

On the west side of Ko Payu, Similan Island 7, and named as the counterpart to East of Eden on the other side of the island. Large boulders carrying giant sea fans, anemones, feather stars and soft coral, with a rubble and reef slope falling to 30–35 m.

Being west-facing it takes the open Andaman swell and the current, which is why the coral is as good as it is.

Dived 25 November 2013 to 22.2 m.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at West of Eden

  1. 25 Nov 2013 with Kim boat date25 Nov 2013 depth22.2 m time54 min water—