Thailand has one of the most beautiful and abundant marine worlds and animals due to the fact that Thailand has long coastlines in the shape of an axe extending into the Malay Peninsular, dividing the coastlines into two: the eastern coastline or the Gulf of Thailand which links with the Pacific Ocean and the western coastline or the Andaman Sea which links with the Indian Ocean.
Thai waters are abundant food sources and important routes for transporting cargos as well as transferring cultures since the old day. Thai sea acts like a big open gate, accepting richness of the sea brought along by the north eastern monsoon to the Gulf of Thailand and by the south western monsoon from Andaman sea into the southern and western parts of Thailand.
Thailand becomes a tourism attraction where visitors who love the sea, divers and travelers from all over the world come to enjoy the bright sun shine, white sandy beaches, clear and sparkling sea water and the rich undersea world.
Eastern Sea
Thailand eastern sea ranges from Pattaya Bay, Koh Larn, Koh Sak, Samae San, Koh Mun, Koh Samet to the end of the eastern coastline at Koh Chang. The underwater marine lives are mainly hard corals, Neptune's cup sponge. The good dive sites are situated at Koh Lan, Koh Sak, Samae San while shipwrecks such as Suthatip and Petchburi Bremen are good wreck diving sites. Chumporn is known for its unique black corals, sea anemones, leather soft corals and rich in marine fishes. The popular diving sites here are Koh Ngam Yai, Koh Ngam Noi and Koh Lak Ngam. Koh Tao The good dive sites include Kong Chumporn, Kong Tunggu, Hin Bai (Sail Rock), Kong Sai Daeng where divers will find beautiful underwater scenery with hard coral, black corals, sea whips, sea combs, and large schools of reef fishes such as jacks, bat fishes, etc.
Lo Sin consists of outcrops, almost at the far end of Gulf of Thailand and is part of Pattini Province. This outcrop lies outside of the Narathiwat shore by 55 miles. Here are shelters for large numbers of reef fishes such as schools of jacks, white and red snappers, bat fishes and barracudas.
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The Andaman Sea lies in great length along the west coastline of the golden axe. The Andaman coast stretches some 894 kilometers from Ranong Province to Satun Province. The Andaman Sea on this side has clearer and deeper water with more colorful and abundant marine animals than those at the eastern coastline. It becomes famous and known to visitors and scuba divers all over the world.
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