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Turtles and Reefs Exploration & Education
Learn all about turtles and the coral reefs of the Similans
Turtles and Reefs – This educational tour is available upon request
Have you ever seen a turtle on a dive? Do you wish you have? Learn more about these amazing marine reptiles and find out about their life, their feeding habits and how they reproduce. Thailand and other areas in South East Asia offer a lot of breeding areas for turtles. But where do the small turtles go when they hatch? And what threats do turtles face when growing up?
Turtles On the Similan Islands
Learn which species the Turtle’s are, how you can identify them and what you can do to help protect them. Of course, our guides will do our best and try to find as many turtles as we can. The most likely place to find them in the Similans are on the coral reefs…
Reefs of the Similans
You have probably made a lot of dives on coral reefs, but have you ever taken a closer look at them? Find out about the amazing diversity and complexity of the worlds reefs. Where you can find them, how they are build up and what different types of reefs exist. One of the world’s most dynamic and efficent eco-systems, yet also one precariously balanced.
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Learn
Among things you have the opportunity to learn:
The science of Reef Monitoring – a way to find out if a reef is healthy or not.
Turtle Conservation – What you can do in your everyday life to help
Reducing your impact on the Reef – through active training like improved bouyancy and through use of biodegradeable products
Share
A Significant portion of the proceeds go to benefit a local Turtle research and conservation charity. In addition it is the goal of these tours to let you know that small, but significant changes in your lives can help change things a world away!
Where?
Aside from the vast selection of marine life we see daily on the reefs, we hope to experience Green Sea Turtles and Hawksbill Turtles. While Leatherbacks do nest in the area – we rarely see them on the reefs. (some extra information about turtles…) The dives will take place Around the Similan Islands. If we gain permission from the Park – there is also a Turtle hatchery on Similan Islands #1, however this is generally off-limits, so we will let you know if we get permission! Just a few of the reefs we will visit:
East of Eden (Similan island #7): On the East side of island #7 you find one of the most beautiful reef dives in Thailand. This is many divers favourite and we have to agree… It’s like you are in an aquarium. No Southern Similan Liveaboard is complete without a visit! Aside from the gorgeous reef, there are frequently turtles here. There are so many fish everywhere and the corals are very healthy. You can find giant seafans in the deeper parts and colorful soft corals in the shallows. (more similan dive site descriptions)
Breakfast Bend (Similan Island #9): This beautiful Reef dive around the northern most of the Similan islands. From our Liveaboard we often experince leopard sharks, turtles and maybe the elusive shovelnose ray. The scenery is spectacular, and we are usually fortunate enough to have a current that takes us drifitng along this reef.
Wicked Diving offers a unique opportunity to benefit the local community, improve the world around us and have a great diving vacation! We use 2% of all income to support local projects that support the local community, marine research or marine conservation (or all three!). When you dive with Wicked, you make a difference. Please read up on our various projects, and policies on the Ethical Diving page. Did you know the eggs on your trip will be from free-range, organically fed chickens? And the Honey and Jam will be from the Baan San Fan Orphanage?
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The trip
There is always a divesite briefing given before every dive. Plenty of meals are served each day in between the dives and we have a minimum surface interval of 2 hours in between the dives. The choice of divesites and jump-in times always depend on the weather, surface and underwater conditions and the experience level of you – our divers! With the Widescreen TV, Hammocks and sundeck available to all guest you will always have time to relax!
