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Welcome to Trang
Diving - Trang Scuba
Dive Center
Never dived before?
No experience
necessary!
PADI Discover Scuba
Diving is a one-day
experience designed
to introduce
non-divers to the
wonders of the
underwater using
SCUBA. |
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Trang Diving
An exciting new frontier |
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Located half way between
Phuket and the Malaysian
border. Trang is the newest
province to open to divers
in the Andaman Sea.
Although not as developed as
some of the other sites
around the country-which
makes it more difficult to
get to-some of Trang’s
diving spots are decidedly
world-class. Certainly, when
conditions are right, the
pinnacles of Hin Daeng and
Hin Muang triumph over
anything in the Similan
Island. There are four
principle place for diving
in this area: Ko Ha Yai, Ko
Rok, Hin Daeng, and several
inland islands just south
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Koh Ngai or Ko Hai
Koh Ha is a small group of
island almost directly west
of Ko Lanta. These tiny
islands, separated by
channels over 50 meters
deep, just straight out of
the Andaman Sea. The
highlight of diving here is
a series of caverns which
are safe to enter, even
without a light, as the
entrances are large and
there is only one way in and
one way out. The best part
of entering these caves is
that you can surface is side
the island to view
stalactites hanging down
from the ceiling 30 meters
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Ko Rok
about 25 kilometers south of
Ko Ha, are two
sister-islands separated by
a narrow channel about 15
meters deep. These islands,
Nok and Nai(mean outside and
inside) have some of the
prettiest beaches in
Thailand and are part of
Thailand’s National Park
Authority.
The diving here is
relatively shallow, with the
best corals and marine life
living above 18 meters. The
bottom is composed of mostly
hard corals, with small
areas of soft corals at
deeper depths. Approximately
25 kilometers southwest of
Ko Rok are Hin Daeng (red
rock) and Hin Muang (purple
rock) offering everything a
diver could want, from
dramatic walls and big fish
action, to lush tropical
underwater gardens covered
with anemones and soft
corals. |
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Hin Daeng
s easily found since it
protrudes about three meters
above the surface, The
southern side
descends-straight down-to
over 60 meters forming the
most radical vertical drop
in Thailand’s seas. The wall
is dotted with a light
growth of soft corals and
sea fans. On the western
side where the slope is more
gentles, two long ridges
descend into the blue. Here
the soft coral becomes more
lush and tall, and huge
schools of jacks sweep past
the ridge, surrounding the
diver with a shimmering wall
of silver.
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Hin Muang (Purple Rock)
ocated just a few hundred
meters from Hin Daeng, lies
completely submerged. The
name derives itself from the
thick purple growth of soft
corals that are everywhere.
What’s surprising is the
incredible amount of marine
life that clings to the
rock. It is as if the rock
were located in another
ocean and not just a short
distance away from the
relatively barren Hin Daeng.
The walls are decorated with
large sea fans of red, white
and orange, Crowds of glass
fish school around the fans
and rocky out-cropping.
Carpets of anemones cover
the shallower sections of
the pinnacle.
Whale sharks are one animal
that we see repeatedly
around these pinnacles and
some years they are seen on
70% of the trips! For deep
water diving. Vertical
walls, and exquisite soft
coral, the areas in the
Province of Trang are
unforgettable.
How to get there: Boats can
be chartered or individually
booked from several dive
companies in Phuket and Phi
Phi. Day trips are available
from
Ko Lanta. |
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Koh Kradan
At the neighboring island of
Koh Kradan (Board Island),
our dive was greeted with
more marine life. Due to
this island’s growing
popularity with tourists,
the not so impressive,
declining hard corals, at a
merely 30 feet, still
yielded a vast array of lion
fish, moray eels, lobsters,
and leopard sharks. This
island is famous for staging
the world's first underwater
group wedding ceremony in
2000, which has continued to
be a tradition since.
Passing around the island, I
noticed a small, deserted
cove with huge waves
pounding onto the virginal,
golden beach, a pure
surfer’s paradise.
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Dive
trips |
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Fun dive
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Condition
Day/Dive
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Min
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Price/Person
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1. Koh Waen, Morakot
Cave |
1 D 2 Dives
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4 pax
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3,500
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2. Koh Waen, Koh Hai,
Koh Chuak |
1 D 3 Dives
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4 pax
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4,980
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3. Hin Daeng - Hin
Muang |
1 D 2 Dives
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4 pax
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7,500
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4. Hin Daeng - Hin
Muang |
1 D 3 Dives
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4 pax
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6,500
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5. Koh Waen, Koh Hai,
Koh Chuak, Koh Rok |
2 D 5 Dives
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4 pax
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14,580
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6. Koh Rok, Hin
Daeng, Hin Muang
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2 D 6 Dives
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4 pax
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16,580
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7. Koh Rok, Hin
Daeng, Hin Muang,
Koh Ha |
3 D 9 Dives
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4 pax
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20,480
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8. Koh Waen, Koh Hai,
Koh Chuak, Koh Rok,
Hin Daeng, Hin Muang,
Koh Ha |
4 D 12 Dives
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4 pax
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25,690
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9. Koh Waen, Koh Hai,
Koh Chuak, Koh Rok,
Hin Daeng, Hin Muang,
Koh Ha, Koh PP |
5 D 15 Dives
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4 pax
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30,555
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10. Night Dive
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1 dive
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700
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Trip Included
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*Item 1-4
included* |
*Item 5-9
included* |
1. All equipment
for diving
2. Lunch meal,
Drinking water
3. Dive master
4. Transfer
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1. Weight, Belt,
Tank with Air
2. Sleep pack,
Dive master
3. Full board,
Drinking water,
water (7,000
liters), ice
4. Transfer to
pier |
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