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Koh Tae Nok |
Dive Location: Outer of the two islands off the west coast.
Depth: Average 16m / Maximum 25m
When the visibility is good this rarely dived site can be very enjoyable. There is little coral damage around this site, and the specimens are reasonably healthy. The reef-flat consists of various table corals and small boulders of star corals pitted with bivalves. The waters provide interesting snorkelling, a rainbow of colours being added by wrasse, parrotfish and various chromis and damselfish. The steep, sometimes sheer reef here consists mainly of gorgonian sea fans and encrusting coraline.
On the wall-like reef-slope are many barrel sponges covered in tubeworms and these continue right down to the sea-bed, which they share with black sea cucumbers and patches of sea urchins. Fusiliers, rabbitfish and snappers hang in mid-water and black-tip reef sharks occasionally sweep past.
A tiny translucent shrimp in a featherstar
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