Best Koh Tao Fun Diving Trips

The ocean around Koh Tao boasts colourful corals, an abundance of marine life and lots of diversity, more than enough to keep even the most experienced scuba diver occupied for months on end.

Lets Go Fun Diving in Thailand
Koh Tao provides all this and more at a variety of dive sites ranging from shallow coral reefs, located within the island’s beautiful bays, to deeper outlying granite pinnacles, just a 30-40 minutes boat journey off shore.
Our dive team are experienced and highly knowledgeable dive professional, familiar with the local reef ecology and dive sites. Fun Diving for all Scuba Divers Koh Tao We will provide you with a bespoke, relaxed and enjoyable fun diving experience.
We will show the best of everything that there is to see, at dive sites suitable for your level of training and experience, tailoring the dive to your interests.
The scuba diving around the island offers something for every diver and with over 25 fantastic dive sites, there is enough variety to keep you hooked on Koh Tao diving for weeks and weeks.
If you are a deep dive enthusiast you will be pleased to hear there are several great deep sites, including Sail Rock, arguably the Gulf of Thailand’s premier scuba diving dive site.

Explore the Underwater World
Located between Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, this 40-metre, deep dive site is in the middle of the sea.
Famous for its iconic Chimney, you will be engulfed by huge schools of snapper, fusiliers and chevron barracuda and see lots of the larger pelagic fish here too, including Malabar & Brown Marbled Grouper, Giant Barracuda and King Mackerel.
Whalesharks often pass by Sail Rock and Eagle Rays & Sail Fish have also been seen swimming in the deep blue on many occasions, just off the main dive site. Sail Rock is usually organized as a full day trip from Koh Tao.
Closer to home we have Chumphon Pinnacles and South West Pinnacle, both a 30-40 minutes boat ride from Koh Tao. These dive sites offer the best opportunity to dive with Whale shark and also boast large schools of scad and Trevally with Brydes Whales also seen at South West when passing through.
Closer to home the Koh Tao’s picturesque bays offer stunning scenery above the surface with the back drop of a thick green jungle and granite rocks, rock faces and shorelines.
These shallow dive sites such as Aow Leuk and Mango Bay, boast colorful thriving coral reefs that are brimming with marine life and easy diving conditions, perfect for long relaxing dives.
For the more adventurous diver, the HTMS Suttakut is a first-class deep wreck dive, perfect for Advanced Diver. Lying between 18-30 metres this wreck is 10 years old now and full of life.
Neighbouring island Koh Nang Yuan offers the iconic twin peaks as the central point of the stunning above the water scenery for you to enjoy during your surface interval. Fun Diving around Koh Nang Yuan It also offers several fantastic dive sites, with Japanese Gardens boasting one of the most diverse coral reefs in Thailand. Diversity is something Koh Nang Yuan has a lot of. Some of Koh Tao’s rare marine animals are also seen around the island including Red Rock and Nang Yuan shoreline.
This is the only dive site where we see the Pink Tailed Triggerfish and Japanese Gardens two of the only locations where we see Ocellated Eagle Rays.
Diversity is something Koh Nang Yuan has a lot of. Some of Koh Tao’s rare marine animals are also seen around the island including the only dive site where we see the Pink Tailed Triggerfish and two of the only locations where we see Ocellated Eagle rays.
Koh Nang Yuan shoreline has some cool caves and swim throughs that are great fun for divers with the necessary buoyancy skills required to navigate them and over on the north side, Green rock offers a deep site and lots of swim throughs and even more Triggerfish.

East Side of Koh Tao
Travel over to the East side of Koh Tao and Tanote Bay offers excellent macro-opportunities and is especially popular with underwater photographers.
If you have a sharp eye look for the Frog Fish and Pipefish, there is also a sunken catamaran thriving with life and artificial concrete cubes that complement the natural reef well and attract more marine life.
In the middle of Tanote there is a very large school of yellow striped scad that literally engulfs scuba divers if you move slowly enough through them.
You can also see blue spotted stingrays and Tanote Bay is one of the best dive sites to see a sea turtle in Koh Tao.
Just around the point is Laem Thian, where there is a maze of great swim throughs plus another rare Koh Tao resident, the Bumphead Parrotfish that we often see in the shallows in Laem Thian Bay.

Junkyard Reef Koh Tao
Over on the south of Koh Tao, Tao Tong is another dive site popular with photographers, who often visit there for muck diving and to see whether they can find the Blue Ringed Octopus.
Koh Tao boasts a number of artificial sites including Junk Yard Reefon the west coast and Suan Olan and Hin Ngam in Aow Leuk that are thriving with marine life and will certainly interest conservation minded divers
We offer two trips a day and night dives can be arranged on request with several of the dive sites on the west coast of the island amongst our favorite sites to dive at Night.

Lets Go Fun Diving on Koh Tao

Koh Tao Diving School is a 5 Star Development Centre
We operate a dedicate fun diving dive boat to facilitate the needs of certified divers who want to visit the best dive sites while they are visiting and perhaps limited on time.
Our dive boat offers freshwater bathrooms, fresh water shower, onboard fruit, snacks and refreshments, lots of space and seating for briefings and onboard compressors to keep the scuba tanks full. Fun Diving Boat for Certified Divers Our fun diving dive boat visits the best dive sites in the Gulf of Thailand on a custom schedule according to the needs of our customers.
Of course, we have dived the ocean around Koh Tao for 25 years, so we believe we know the best locations to take our fun divers, and we do our best to facilitate this on one of the most spacious and comfortable dive boats in Thailand.

All our fun diver trips except Sail Rock are priced at 1800 baht per trip for 2 dives and includes:
● Your Dive Guide
● Insurance
● Maximum group size of 4
● Full set of Premium Aqualung Equipment Rental **
● Comfortable dive boats with fresh water showers and lots of space
** Aqualung Pro HD BCD, Helix Balanced Regulators & Suunto dive computer

* Sail Rock – Special Trips
Sail Rock is a special excursion trip due to the dive site being 1.5-2 hours way from Koh Tao. We serve lunch on both our Wednesday & Saturday Sail Rock dive trips and the price is 2900 baht.
Sail Rock Wednesday
Our Sail Rock trip on a Wednesday departs at 05.30am. We leave early to maximise the opportunity to get the dive site to ourselves for Dive 1. We also serve a breakfast wrap on this early trip and return to Koh Tao at approximately 13.00 so you can leave the island later that day if necessary.

Sail Rock Wednesday
Our Sail Rock trip on a Wednesday departs at 05.30am. We leave early to maximise the opportunity to get the dive site to ourselves for Dive 1. We also serve a breakfast wrap on this early trip and return to Koh Tao at approximately 13.00 so you can leave the island later that day if necessary.

Sail Rock Saturday
Our Sail Rock Saturday trip departs at the later time of 11.00am. We hope this allows us to have the site to ourselves for Dive 2.

Our student Diver Boat
Our student dive boat Is more focused on PADI training courses so it mainly visits dive sites that are 18 metres or shallower. These trips are also very interesting for certified divers, as we visit some of Koh Tao’s most popular dive sites regularly.

Some of the dive sites we visit regularly include:
Mango Bay, Red Rock & Nang Yuan shoreline, Japanese Gardens, Twins, No Name Pinnacle, White Rock, Junkyard Reef, Aow Leuk, Hin Ngam and Tanote Bay As a certified diver, the great thing about fun diving with Black Turtle Dive is you get so much choice as we visit up to 8 Koh Tao dive sites a day.

As a certified diver, the great thing about fun diving with Black Turtle Dive is you get so much choice as we visit up to 8 Koh Tao dive sites a day.
Important Notice for Certified Divers

Important Notice for Certified Divers When was your last dive?
Can you confirm when you last dived? If it has been longer than 12 months, we strongly advise you complete a scuba review, to refresh your diving knowledge and scuba skills.
This is especially recommended if you plan to dive at Sail Rock dive site.
If you have dived within the last 12 months, there is no need for a Review.
Please note that we will ask for proof of last dive (logbook and dive computer etc.).

Dive Medical Form – Are you fit to dive?
Below is a link to the PADI Medical Questionnaire, which all divers must complete prior to diving with Black Turtle Dive.
Please read through the ‘Divers Medical Questionnaire’ on page 1. If you answer ‘NO’ to all the questions then you are OK to start diving with us.
However, if you answer ‘YES’ to any questions, please turn to page 2 and answer the additional questions.
A medical check-up may be required before diving.
* Please make sure you read the Medical Form to confirm there are no health issues before booking your dives with us.