Venture off of southern Thailand’s peninsula to the famed dive areas in the Andaman Sea. Best accessed by liveaboard, the Similan Islands and Burma Banks offer world-class diving in protected waters where colorful reefs and dramatic underwater landscapes harbor a plethora of marine life including rare and exotic marine life. Ghost pipefish, ribbon eels and nudibranchs are some of the smaller species found throughout the area. Whales sharks have been seen in numbers at Richelieu Rock while leopard sharks can be found at Ko Tachai. The Mergui Archipelago in Myanmar (Burma) to the north of the Andaman Sea has also become a popular area for dive live-aboards to explore.
Bali is an Indonesian island known mostly for its yoga and meditation retreats but also for its beachside cities and popular resort towns.
The Solomon islands are known for its acclaimed diving destinations including the enormous Marovo Lagoon and Iron Bottom Sound, which is littered with dozens of sunken warships.
Located in the Indian Ocean, Maldives contains over 1,100 islands spread over 60,000 square miles whose atolls offer some of the most scenic seascapes on Earth.
The British Virgin Islands are not only one of the world's top cruising grounds, they also serve as a rendezvous point for cruising divers who want to take advantage of both the great diving and sailing that these islands have to offer.
