6 Best Dive Sites around Phi Phi Islands

Garang Heng is a small submerged reef just east of Koh Phi Phi Leh. Offering a healthy reef with anemones, soft corals and of course, sharks, it's an excellent backup to the Shark Point dive site.

Located on Phi Phi Don's southern headlands, Hin Dot (Chimney Rocks) has 4 pinnacles starting just below sea level and dropping down to around 30 metres. These enormous towers are famous for their large schools of fish. It's often quite dark due to the volume of fish hovering above you, but you can find some interesting marine life under the rocks near the bottom. Hin Dot is home to nurse sharks, groupers, pufferfish, lionfish, squid, and bearded scorpionfish.

Hin Pae is a relatively shallow dive site, around 10 to 15 metres deep. Its shallow depth offers excellent snorkelling. Hin Pae is sometimes called Baby Shark Point because even snorkellers have the opportunity to see different types of sharks. The main topography includes boulder and brain corals, with many holes and tunnels for moray eels to pass through. Soft and hard coral provide shelter for a rich variety of coral fish. Crabs, lobsters, angelfish, groupers, snappers and surgeonfish are also residents of this area.

King Cruiser is a sunken catamaran-hull passenger-cruiser with 4 decks. Sank on the 4th May 199, it offers an easy dive thanks to large openings that allow you to explore the spacious interior. The propellers (deepest point) rest 30 metres deep with the most interesting diving areas around the passenger decks between 10 and 20 metres. 

Ko Bida Nok has outstanding hard and soft coral with lots of marine life. Sightings include leopard sharks, turtles, moray eels, and ghost pipefish. There's always a chance of hard-to-find whale sharks and manta rays during your dive. 

Shark Point (Hin Bida)is a small, submerged outcrop, some 8 km southeast of Phi Phi Ley. This rock, which just breaks the surface, attracts a lot of leopard sharks and often nurse and reef sharks as well. It's a favoured spot for whale sharks around February and March.