Burma diving

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Diving in Burma with Mermaid1 you leave from Phuket on Thailand's west coast for a fantastic 2 country safari taking in the best that diving in Burma and Thailand has to offer.

	Mermaid 1 Burma liveaboard - 9 days schedules, itineraries and prices		Mermaid 2 Burma liveaboard - full boat charter only schedules, itineraries and prices

We travel overnight on the first night to arrive in the morning at the Similan islands in Thailand for your first dive. Heading north over the course of 2 days diving Koh Bon and Richelieu rock looking for mantas and whale sharks we arrive at the border into Burma to begin your Burma diving experience - Mermaid2 is also available for full charters to Burma.
Check out our special offers page for cheap Burma liveaboard trips or subscribe to our Rss feed to get all the latest Burma diving updates and deals direct to your computer.

● Diving in Thailand ● Diving in Komodo ● Diving in Sulawesi ● Diving in Raja Ampat ● Diving in Bali ● Diving Maldives ●

Diving in Burma - general information.

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Mermaid1's Burma diving safaris leave from Phuket on Thailand's west coast travelling through the beautiful Similan islands and on to the border crossing into Myanmar at the Kawthong immigrati on checkpoint diving as we go.
Our trips are of a 9 days duration and experience the great diving in the crystal clear waters of the Similan islands in Thailand first before moving on north wards through the Andaman sea to the border crossing at Kawthong and into Burma.
Burma is an amazing place. The Mergui Archipelago contains over 800 islands and is sparsley populated by Mokken, Burmese sea gypsies, that stay for months at a time on their boats fishing and living amongst the islands and Mangrove swamps.
The special thing about diving in Burma is that you really feel like you are out there doing something unusual and not following the tourist trail. You rarely see another dive boat and the sites are many, varied and spread over a large area. Hundreds of islands hide new dive spots that are found each year, dolphins and whales are not uncommon sights and the mangroves present other treasures such as dugongs, kingfishers, wild pigs and monkeys, there's even reports of tigers and elephants hiding in there, a possibility not as ar fetched as it sounds as both were once common here.
Burma liveaboards vary greatly from sailing yachts to larger motor cruisers and consequently the price for scuba diving in Burma also varies a reasonable amount but you generally get what you pay for and so if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.
Diving in Burma normally costs from around 150 - 250 Euros a day for a decent boat dependant on such things as the size of the boat, cabins, en-suite bathrooms, air-con etc. There is also a visa entry charge for Burma of US$ 230 to factor into the cost.
It is only possible to dive in Burma by liveaboard boat as access via land is forbidden and in any case would be very difficult due to the lack of any local infrastructure, travel restrictions and the distance from the nearest airport to a useable departure port.
Our Burma liveaboard also includes a brief spell diving in the Similan islands as you make your way north to the border crossing between Thailand and Burma.
Summary:
Burma diving is accessed through Thailand on the west coast with the boat leaving and returning to the diving from Phuket.
The trip lasts 9 days and also visits the more northern islands of the Similan islands and dive Richelieu rock and sometimes Koh Bon for 2 of these days to look for manta rays and whale sharks.
Mermaid1 runs a fantastic liveaboard to Burma over a 9 day period which also includes diving in the Similan islands for 2 of these days - check out the links below to find out more details or just read on...

Diving in Burma - Mermaid1

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Diving in Burma - Mermaid 1 cabins

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Master cabin	Master cabin bathroom
Single cabin	Single cabin bathroom
Deluxe twin cabin	Deluxe double cabin
Standard cabin	Upper deck relaxing area

Diving in Burma - Schedule

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Trip	Departure	Arrival	Destination	D/N
MMI-1/09B	24 Nov 09	03 Dec 09	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-2/09B	03 Dec 09	12 Dec 09	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-3/09B	13 Dec 09	22 Dec 09	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-4/09B	23 Dec 09	1 Jan 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-5/09B	2 Jan 10	11 Jan 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-6/09B	12 Jan 10	21 Jan 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-7/09B	22 Jan 10	31 Jan 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-8/09B	1 Feb 10	10 Feb 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-9/09B	11 Feb 10	20 Feb 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-10/09B	20 Feb 10	01 Mar 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-11/09B	02 Mar 10	12 Mar 10	Burma-Burma - Full	10/10
MMI-12/09A	16 Mar 10	26 Mar 10	Andaman Islands - Full	9/10
MMI-13/09A	27 Mar  10	06 Apr 10	Andaman Islands - Full	9/10
MMI-14/09B	10 Apr 10	19 Apr 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9
MMI-15/09B	20 Apr 10	29 Apr 10	Phuket-Burma-Phuket	9/9

Diving in Burma - Itinerary

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Diving in Burma - Prices

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

No fuel surcharge!
2009/10 Season

Price per pax	Accommodation	9d+9n Burma Safari
Master Cabin	1 king size bed	€ 2,435
Single Cabin	1 single bed	€ 2,435
Deluxe Cabin	1 double or 2 twin	€ 2,195
Budget Cabin	2 twin beds	€ 1,995

Diving in Burma - Dive sites.

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Probably the most spectacular diving in Burma with the most potential for big stuff in the archipelago, Black Rock is a rocky island approximately 100 meters long. Here is the closest you’ll come to having a true wall dive, with depths to over 60-meters and a dramatic drop off in most areas.
Some of the fish you will see here include black-spotted pufferfish, spotted hawkfish, scorpionfish, and blue-ringed angelfish. If you are a moray eel fan, then this is your dive site. Many unusual and rarely seen morays are common, including extra-large common green, zebra, and fimbriated and white-eyed morays. Octopus and cuttlefish can be found here, the latter easy to photograph.

Great Swinton Islands / North Twin Island

There is a large underwater plateau located close to the North Twin Island. The top of the reef has an average depth of 5-15m, with large mating cuttle fish and the highlight here are the Manta rays that visit this place many times with there graceful displays. On the deeper side of this dive site there are big boulders dropping down to 40m where you usually find a large populationof black spotted stingrays sleeping on the sandy bottom.
An underwater pinnacle located close to North Twin Island. The shallowest point of this pinnacle is around 12m and continues down to over 60 meters. As you descend down the slopping reef which has been dynamited you will find a huge amount of sea fans swaying in the usually strong currents. At around 25 meters you can find large Indian nurse sharks sleeping in the overhangs. A look out in to the blue can be rewarding with large dog tooth tunas circling above.

Shark cave / in through the out door / 3 stooges / Cavern Island

This site has so many names and for very good reason, it's amazingly full of life and everyone wants it named by them. Harboring some of the best marine life in the archipelago. Huge schools of fusilier and silversides surround you upon entering the water. The sandy base of the islands reveals unusual anemones and starfish, while the walls are covered with orange cup corals, whip corals, and green tubastrea coral. It is one of the better areas to see harlequin shrimp and harlequin ghost pipe fish.
If you’re looking for drama, there is a canyon that leads to a tunnel connecting the northern and southern part of the main, middle island. Here, if you’re lucky, you can witness gray reef sharks swimming in and out of the canyon. The trick here is to hang out against the east side of the wall and just watch what comes by.

The famous Burma Banks

10 hours cruising out a series of seamounts rise up from over 300-meters to just below the surface (12m). Depths average 15-22 meters on the flat areas on top, dropping off slowly on the edges. Some banks have a more dramatic drop off than others, but nowhere will you find a vertical wall. Diving here requires careful planning, as the currents are often strong and unpredictable. Guided drift dives are the norm, usually starting on the edge of the bank in 35-meters of water where divers stare out in the blue looking for baby silvertip, nurse or grey reef sharks. If the sharks don’t happen to be around, the dogtooth tuna, Spanish mackerel and jack fish that patrol the reef edges will delight you along with inquisitive morays and groupers looking for food. The coral is in very good shape in many places, but this varies from year to year depending on storm activity and other environmental factors. In years past this was the reason for diving Burma but now that alot more of the area has been explored we have found that alot of the better sites are closer to shore.

Western Rocky Island

This limestone island features beautiful underwater terrain, includinga tunnel–often full of large tawny nurse sharks–which traverses the island about 20-meters down. The island is more like a series of pinnacles rather than one big rock and the soft limestone makes for crevices offering shelter for a wide variety of sea creatures. Some of the marine life you will see here include mantas, gray reef and spinner sharks, and eagle rays in the open water next to the island, while leopard sharks and spotted rays lie on the bottom. On and around the rocks, spiny lobster, cowrie shells, feather stars, anemones and an assortment of crabs abound. Reef fish include blue-ringed angelfish, moray-eels, snappers, frogfish, and ghost pipefish.

Burma liveaboard diving

● Mermaid1 ● Schedule ● Itinerary ● Cabins ● Dive sites ● Prices ● Inquiry ● Burma video ● Burma photos ● Rss feed ●

Other links of interest

● Maldives diving ● Liveaboard Thailand ● Similan islands liveaboard ● Diving Similan islands ● Monsoon liveaboard ● Pawara Similan islands ● Carpe Diem Maldives liveaboard ● Ark Royal Maldives safari ● Dive boat charter Thailand ● Dive boat charter Indonesia ● Mermaid liveaboards ● Komodo dancer ● Pelagian liveaboard ● Paradise dancer diving Raja Ampat ● liveaboard Thailand ● Indonesia liveaboard ● Similan islands liveaboard ● Burma liveaboard ● Diving liveaboard ● Komodo diving ● Black Manta liveaboard ● Liveaboard Raja Ampat ● SMY Ondina liveaboard ● Maldives Liveaboard Sachika ● Maldives Liveaboard ● Dive Cairns Australia ● Underwater Cameras ●