Mermaid II runs liveaboard trips to the Hin Daeng and Phi Phi island areas, please refer to the schedule for more information. A typical Hin Daeng/Phi Phi trip entails the boat leaving Phuket on a Friday night, and then 4 dives each on Saturday and Sunday, followed by an overnight cruise back to Phuket and departing the boat on Monday. Many divers choose to combine Mermaid II's Similan safari before or after the Hin Daeng trip, creating an exciting 6 day/7 night Andaman safari.

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Koh Bida Nok and Koh Bida Nai Islands

These two uninhabited islands lie south of Phi Phi and are a Mecca for leopard sharks. These harmless and docile creatures are usually sleeping around the sand and coral banks of the islands usually no deeper than 20 meters. With Bida Nok as the larger of the two it offers great hard and soft corals with turtles and sea snakes passing bye. The deeper of the two with depths to 30 meters on the west side wall teeming with life from lionfish to baby morays poking there heads from the cracks and well camouflaged octopuses blending in to the rocks will keep your eyes busy on this dive site.

Bida Nai island smaller and slightly shallower offers the chance to see the sleeping leopard shark anywhere from 1 to 10 sharks resting on the bottom in between the staghorn corals. Here the soft corals are abound with their beautiful colors but look closely at the sea fans to find the Tiger-tail sea horse. With two swim-throughs covered in small baitfish and shrimps, lots of colorful reef fish and schools of barracuda and trevallys darting over the reef, and not forgetting the many nudibranches along the way make this a wonderful dive site.

Phi Phi Lae Island

This dive will take you to the famous Maya Bay Lagoon where they filmed the movie "The Beach". Here we take a sunset dive along Maya wall with its swim-throughs and excellent underwater canyons with a good chance to meet a family of Hawksbill sea turtles. A look under the cracks and overhangs will prove rewarding with rock painted lobsters and many types of cleaner shrimps. There is also a chance to visit the beach with one of our dinghies and take a walk through the picturesque forest to the other side of the island and in to Loh Samah lagoon.

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.

Hin Muang (Purple Rock)

Purple rock is completely submerged with a bouy line running down to 18 meters in the center of the rock. Hin Muang is basically one very large rock with steep walls running down to over 50 meters with 6 pinnacles on the top. The shallowest being 10 meters from the surface. The rock lies in a north to south direction making navigation around the rock easy. The soft corals are prolific with anemones covering the surface and colorful nudibranches crawling over the walls, keep an eye out in to the blue for the manta rays passing bye gracefully feeding in the rich plankton water.

Hin Daeng (Red Rock)

Hin Deang has three large rocks that break the surface and a mooring bouy on the east side that descends down to 14 meters. Here the walls are covered with small red soft coral trees with shrimps and morays in every crack. The south east descends down to over 60 meters with large pelagics cruising in to be cleaned by the cleaner wrasse including devil rays, manta rays and whale sharks, with large schools of barracuda and tunas. Down to the west side on the slopping sand patches are the leopard sharks sleeping on the bottom. Visibility at both sites is usually very good with 20 meter plus.

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Map of Phi Phi & Hin Daeng Diving Areas