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Essential travel information for planning your diving trip to Phuket and diving with Sunrise Divers. Here you’ll find hotel guides, maps, photos, information relating to our Dive Center in Phuket, useful diving related articles and general diving information. If you are looking for more specific information about the diving we offer, try checking the Liveaboard, Day Trip or Dive Course sections of the website. No time to surf the website? Want to dive? Need an answer? Just send us a quick enquiry and we’ll get back to you soon!

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Phuket Boat Charters Superior

Phuket Boat Charters

Boat Charters are available for diving and non diving cruises. You can choose between a speed boat for a small group of friends or go with your family. If you like to go in style for an unforgetta [...]

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Phuket Hotels Superior

Phuket Hotels

Karon Beach boasts a wide range of hotels, resorts and guesthouses to suit all budgets from backpackers to luxury seekers. Many people on dive trips are looking for cheaper, simple accommodation, [...]

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Similan Liveaboards from Phuket and Khao Lak Superior

Similan Liveaboards from Phuket and Khao Lak

The Similan Islands have long been established as the best area for diving in Thailand. Liveaboards have been operating since the 1990s heading to the main Similan Island chain, plus Koh Bon, Koh [...]

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Diving Thailand Superior

Diving Thailand

Sunrise Divers is your Phuket Thailand scuba diving dive center for all your diving needs. We offer scuba diving courses in Phuket for beginners and advanced divers. Daily Phuket dive tours and Th [...]

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Similan Islands Superior

Similan Islands

The Similan Islands are commonly rated as one of the top 10 dive destinations in the world. The islands lie about 100 km Northwest of Phuket and were declared a National Marine Park in 1982. The Sim [...]

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Phuket Liveaboard Diving to the Similan Islands and Hin Daeng Superior

Phuket Liveaboard Diving to the Similan Islands and Hin Daeng

Similan Islands Liveaboards began operating from Phuket in the 1990s with diving tours heading to the main Similan Islands, with Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock further to the north. Over t [...]

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Phuket Weather Superior

Phuket Weather

Weather high season - winds were generally light, from the northeast, and are mostly hot, sunny days this time of year with the temperatures in the low 30s Celsius. Great diving weather! The summe [...]

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Khao Lak Liveaboard Trips to the Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock Superior

Khao Lak Liveaboard Trips to the Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock

Similan Islands Liveaboards started becoming popular in the 1990s with tours heading to the main Similan Island chain, plus Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richelieu Rock further to the north. As Phuket w [...]

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Flying After Diving Superior

Flying After Diving

We are asked this question often. When is it safe to fly? If I book a liveaboard that ends on Friday, can I fly on Saturday? If I make a dive on Monday morning can I fly Monday evening? Now, pleas [...]

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Manta Rays Superior

Manta Rays

Along with the whaleshark, divers coming to Thailand normally have manta rays on the top of their wish-list. If you are lucky enough to dive with a manta close up, or even just catch a glimpse a m [...]

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Whalesharks Superior

Whalesharks

In Thailand you can find a huge variety of marine life and underwater scenery. The reefs of the Similan Islands are well known worldwide, while the islands of Phuket, Phi Phi and Koh Tao attract div [...]

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Similan Islands Liveaboard Scuba Diving Superior

Similan Islands Liveaboard Scuba Diving

Thailand liveaboards are the best way to best dive sites in Thailand. The popular Phuket liveaboard tours with 4 diving days including the Similan Islands, Surin Islands and the remote dive sites [...]

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Diving in Burma Superior

Diving in Burma

For many years the beautiful Mergui archipelago in Myanmar (Burma), comprising over 800 Islands and covering 10,000 square miles, was closed to foreigners. Only in 1997 was Burma opened up for scu [...]

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Phuket Diving TripAdvisor Reviews Superior

Phuket Diving TripAdvisor Reviews

Sunrise Divers has been here in Phuket since 1999 (read more About Us). We offer Phuket diving day trips and also liveaboards to the Similan islands and we run SSI dive courses. For many years no [...]

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Diving Phuket Superior

Diving Phuket

Welcome to Phuket, Thailand's premier destination for Similan Scuba Diving Liveaboards. Nestled in the Andaman Sea, Phuket is renowned for its stunning marine life, crystal-clear waters, and v [...]

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Diving Seasons Superior

Diving Seasons

We are asked this kind of question regularly .... "When is the best time to come to dive in Thailand?" or "Is July a good time to dive in Phuket?". We get a lot of enquiries for the Similan Island [...]

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FAQ Superior

FAQ

How do I get to Phuket? Phuket, Thailand has an international airport with direct flights to/from Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Hong Kong and many other Asian cities. Between November an [...]

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The Best Liveaboards in Thailand Superior

The Best Liveaboards in Thailand

Sunrise Divers has been operating in Phuket, Thailand since 1999. Over the years we have always offered our customers a range of liveaboard options here in Thailand (and also in Myanmar and Indone [...]

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Are You Fit To Dive? Superior

Are You Fit To Dive?

Scuba diving does not require you to be an Olympic athlete, but health is an important issue. If you are considering diving for the first time, you should be in good health, especially your heart [...]

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Phuket Green Season Diving Superior

Phuket Green Season Diving

Our main diving season here is from late October to early May, because our main dive destination - the Similan Islands National Park - is closed from May 15th to October 15th. That is the most pop [...]

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Thailand Diving and the Environment Superior

Thailand Diving and the Environment

The Andaman Sea, separated from the Bay of Bengal by the Andaman-Nicobar Ridge, is part of the Indian Ocean. Thailand's long Andaman coast extends for about 500 km from the Surin Islands near Thai [...]

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Dive Equipment Superior

Dive Equipment

Aqua Lung is the name that first introduced the world to Scuba diving in 1943 when Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan developed the first "Aqua-Lung." The excitement and adventurous spirit [...]

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Phuket Travel Information Superior

Phuket Travel Information

This may seem like an easy question to answer, but many people ask us about travel arrangements for flights, buses, ferries, taxis etc., so this page will give you some more information and web li [...]

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Phuket Map Superior

Phuket Map

Phuket is the largest island in Thailand and is bigger than most people realise. The land area of Phuket island is more than 500 square kilometers, and it's over 50km from north to south. The airp [...]

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Karon Beach Map Superior

Karon Beach Map

Sunrise Divers SSI Training Dive Center is located a few minutes walk from the sands of Karon Beach on the west coast of Phuket. There are many hotels close to our location and plenty of restauran [...]

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What is Liveaboard Diving? Superior

What is Liveaboard Diving?

Many divers are unfamiliar with the idea of liveaboards, or think that liveaboard diving might be too difficult or only for expert divers. Some divers make only local day trips, preferring to retu [...]

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Scuba Diving in Phuket Thailand Superior

Scuba Diving in Phuket Thailand

Sunrise Divers has been based here at Karon Beach, Phuket since 1999. We offer all the best Phuket Thailand diving options from Phuket and Khao Lak, including day trips, SSI & PADI dive courses (w [...]

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