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Diving Sail Rock | Images of great diving in the Gulf of Thailand

January 16, 2008 on 6:24 pm | In Dive Training Opportunities |

As a result of the calm sea conditions we’ve been experiencing, the diving is great right now. Today, diving from our big dive boat we visited one of the Gulf of Thailand’s best dive sites - Sail Rock situated midway betweeen Koh Tao and Koh Phangan. DJL Diving’s Digital Underwater photography instructor Arne D’Hoore was on the dive boat to capture these great images of the diving.

Image: Trevelly above a table coral at Sail Rock [taken by Arne D’Hoore]

With 1 metre wave heights, it was more comfortable to take our big boat to Sail Rock. We planned for two dives on the small vertical walled island, and weren’t disappointed!

Image: The DJL Dive boat moored up on Sail Rock, Thailand [taken by Arne D’Hoore]

Sail Rock is most famous for it’s vertical ‘chimney swimthrough’ which opens at around 6 metres, dropping down to a wide exit at about 18 metres depth.

Image: The famous vertical chimney swimthrough at Sail Rock [taken by Arne D’Hoore]

Visibility was very good, giving great views of the masses of pelagic marine life around the dive site. Visibility was only reduced on the down current face of Sail Rock.

Image: Barracuda being tended to by a small wrasse at a cleaning station [taken by Arne D’Hoore]

The divers got to see masses of trevelly, giant grouper & batfish, along with lots of colourful tropical reef fish. Even the chevron and great barracudas were visible at cleaning stations on Sail Rock.

Image: Giant grouper @ Sail Rock [taken by Arne D’Hoore]

Image: A continuous school of fish passing across the Sail Rock dive site [taken by Arne D’Hoore]

If you want to learn to take great digital underwater images like these, contact us a we can line up a PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty with Arne.