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Ao Leuk

Dive Location:  Koh Tao’s southeast coast.
Depth: Average 6m / Maximum 12m

This is really a diver-training site, and provides an excellent alternative to the two at Nang Yuan: if weather makes one inaccessible, the other will not be. The seascape is ideal for those taking their first breaths beneath the ocean’s surface.

The sand is broken by small mounds of staghorn corals and numerous patches of long-spined black sea urchins. Mushroom corals lie individually scattered, as do small sponge-encrusted rocks.

The dominating species among the many fish around these undulating rocks are parrotfish, wrasse, juvenile snappers, squirrelfish and soldierfish. Away from the rocks, numbers of yellowtail barracuda and schooling bannerfish pass by.

For featured dive centres

• Big Blue Diving Resort
• Crystal Dive Resort
• Planet Scuba

Hawksbill Turtle

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