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Underwater Photo Location: Tanote Bay, Koh Tao/Thailand

Underwater Photo Location: Tanote Bay, Koh Tao/Thailand

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Beautiful cove with both snorkeling and diving possibilities. Diving along the shore at 4-6 metres depth allows you to see lots of parrot, seargent majors, angelfish, anemonefish and scorpionfish. About 100 metres from shoreline, past the big boulder in the middle of the bay lies a katamaran wreck with good diversity of underwater wildlife. Several moray eels spotted, pufferfish, batfish, blacktips and nudie's. The blacktips come close to shoreline in the evenings between 5 and 7pm to hunt and feed. But not to fear as it's only juvies between 50-100cm. Snokeling along the north shoreline, passing the next small bay gives you a great oppertunity spotting adult blacktips hunting in the shallows just above a coral graveyard. It's only about 2 metres in depth here but you get a good chance spotting both turtles and giant triggerfishes.
Facts about Tanote Bay, Koh Tao/Thailand
  • It is in Thailand
  • Tanote Bay, Koh Tao/Thailand is in the Andaman Sea.
  • The typical depth is 0-10 Metres 0-30 Feet.
  • The typical visibility is 10-30 Metres 30-100 Feet.
Dive types
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Marine Life
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Diving facilities
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Photo facilities
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by Mirko Civcic
A curious Teira Batfish (Platax Teira) swimming close to a wreck outside Tanote Bay, Koh Tao/Thailand. Photo taken with an Olympus Mju700 with underwater housing.

by Stephan Pelletier
Phydiana Indica on a dead whip coral brach
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