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Richelieu Rock

Dive Location:  14km east of Koh Surin Nua and Tai.
Depth: Average 19m / Maximum 45m

As this is the only food source in the immediate area, it is excellent for encountering large pelagics. Rainbow runners, great and chevron barracuda, trevallies and tuna are all frequently seen. The rock is also among the world’s top listed locations for sighting whale sharks.Predominantly, this is a wall-dive which follows around a main outcrop surrounded by smaller submerged pinnacles whose peaks range from 3m to 10m below the surface.

In the deeper waters around the three southernmost pinnacles is a collection of large gorgonian sea fans, immediately beneath radiant hermetypic corals.Around the corals is a wide diversity of marine life: residents include schooling bannerfish, a variety of snappers and lionfish, moorish idols, titan triggerfish, and even shovelnose rays. Also present are bearded scorpionfish, stonefish, moray eels, seahorses, shrimps, crabs and nudibranchs.

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