Mergui Archipelago, Burma. February 2006

3.5m reef Silvertip, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar

Exploring the Mergui Archipelago (Myanmar) via Zodiac (Roderick Eime)

Young Whale Shark in Saw Mon Hia Island, Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar

One of the 9 Similan Islands of Thailand situated in the Andaman Sea

which is to the west of Thailand. Traveling about 150 nautical miles further to the north one arrives in the

waters of Myanmar. In this particualar year (1996) the tyrannical military regime ruling Myanmar would not allow us entry into their fantastic waters. It remained closed to any recreational use until about 1998 when I first dove Myanmar. Some of our dives were on islands which had never before been dived and are a part

of what is known as the Mergui Archipelago.

Ric's best of 2010-2011 underwater, taken at Mergui Archipelago, Burma Banks & Similan Islands. ©Thailand Dive & Sail • www.thailanddiveandsail.com

2014/15 season diving with Similan Diving Safaris on-board the

m/v Dolphin Queen now diving in the Mergui-Archipelago, Myanmar (Burma).

Image: 0967 (this is actually Burma, but indicative of how we explored)

Passengers from Silver Discoverer explore remote islands of the Mergui

Archipelago (Roderick Eime)

Ric's best of 2010-2011 underwater, taken at Mergui Archipelago, Burma Banks & Similan Islands. ©Thailand Dive & Sail

Sponge crab

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