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Mermaid II runs 2D/3N Phuket liveaboard trips to the top dive spots around Phuket and the Phi-Phi Island areas and Hin Daeng diving areas. There are 4 dives per day on these liveaboard trips.
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Koh Phi Phi
The main dive sites for Phi Phi are Ko Bida Nok and Ko Bida Nai, two rocky outcrops just south of Phi Phi Ley. Both these sites are abundant in colourful soft coral, gorgonian seafans and sea whips.
The classic limestone scenery with its caves and caverns, ledges and walls give Phi Phi Island its well deserved reputation above and below the water line. The Islands are good places to spot Leopard sharks and the occasional visit by whale sharks.
 Koh Ha Islands
Koh Ha is a group of five magical uninhabited islands, unspoiled and usually offering crystal clear waters. One of the highlights is diving the Twin Cathedrals, a large cave system that has formed into two large domes with a passage between them. This island group is a haven for marine life and divers alike! – awesome beauty with caverns, caves, chimneys, swim throughs, soft coral covered walls, coral heads and sea bed. The marine diversity here will suit all divers with interesting macro such as sea horse and rare nudibrancs and good fish action plus squid, cuttlefish, lobsters, morays and more.
Koh Doc Mai
This small, jungle topped island is located on the way to Shark Point from Phuket and is considered one of the best wall dives in the area. Doc Mai is a huge limestone rock that rises steeply out of the sea.
On three sides the sheer walls occupied with a different creature in every nook and cranny drop straight down to the sea floor. The west side is a gently sloping hard coral reef with an abundance of colorful sea life decorating its underwater cliffs. This dive is noted for its variety of reef fish and an opportunity to view some of the resident Moray Eels. The east-side of the island is a virtual garden of yellow tube corals and you can explore some of the small caves along the base of the wall.
Anemone Reef
 Anemone Reef or Hin Jom (Submerged Rock) lies just underwater, about 600 meters to the North of Shark Point. As the Thai name makes clear, no part of the pinnacle is exposed, and underwater the rock drops off more dramatically to a depth of between 20 and 27 meters until reaching a bottom of sand and oyster shells. Although not as colorful as Shark Point, the fish life here is excellent as well and our friends, the leopard sharks, often are seen free-swimming at the top of the rock in six meters of water.
Located just South of Ao Phang-nga and all of its fresh water rivers, visibility averages around 10 meters, often less. Although conditions such as this are not what divers dream of when they think of perfect visibility, the amount of marine life more than makes up for the often limited visibility.
Shark Point
Hin Musang Marine Sanctuary- some 16 nautical miles due east of Chalong Bay are three limestone pinnacles popularly known as Shark Point. It is one of the best Phuket scuba diving sites to be found in the area. 
The northern most pinnacle of the three just breaks the surface to mark the spot. The dive site is abundant in soft colourful coral, large barrel sponges and gorgonian sea fans. A large variety of marine life can be found here ranging from leopard sharks, moray eels, jacks, trevally and honeycomb grouper.
King Cruiser Wreck
This 85 meter-long steel ferry sank on the 4th of May 1997, hitting the Anemone Reef. No one  died. She's in 32 meters of water and already, after six years, bursting with amazing marine life.
At 25 meters, you'll find the engine room and the car deck, a huge open area.
Moving up to 18 meters you'll find the passenger section which has the heads, the bar, and lots of tables and chairs. Even though the ceiling is pretty low, this is safe to penetrate as the doors are now broken so there's no chance of being caught inside. For further penetrations, a reel is a must.
At 12 meters lies the captain's cabin and the wheel house. Many things have unfortunately have been taken as "souvenirs", such as the wheel and telephone, but it's still a nice view over the bow of the boat.
The smokestacks are sitting at about 6-7 meters, so a nice place to hang for your safety stop. Lots of fish have been attracted to the wreck so far, as well as eels and zillions of crabs. Its location near to Shark Point has undoubtedly had something to do with it's rapid population growth.
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Phuket Diving Area Map
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