Located 85km west of Kawthaung, this is the southern most dive site in Burma's Mergui archipelago.
The dramatic underwater terrain has something to suit most divers. There are walls, sloping reefs, boulders and pinnacles. The most popular section of the dive site however is the tunnel that runs all the way through the middle of the island.
The tunnel starts on the southern wall. Divers first descend to a large cavern that starts just 5m below the surface and drops to the bottom of the rock at 25m depth.  On the western edge of the cavern is a large window archway that divers can swim through and which helps to light the cavern. The cavern is covered in clams, barnacles and sponges as well as hingebeak shrimps, crabs and lobster. Nudibranchs such as fried egg nudibranchs and twin magnificent nudibranchs can be seen. Scorpionfish are numerous. Twin spot lionfish shetler on the wall whereas larger common lionfish are more often free swimming.
To the east of the cavern the tunnel entrance starts at 17m. The tunnel is approximately 30m long. There is a large chamber inside but it narrows dramatically as divers reach reach the northern side where it spits in two offering two possible exit routes. The left tunnel is very narrow are can only be wriggled through by removing the scuba unit.
Dozens of giant lobster cover the walls. Shrimps are also much bigger than on the outer walls. But the star attraction are the very large tawny nurse sharks that live in the tunnel and occasionally block the route through for divers. Continued >>
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