Our tour route marked in the sea map

Burma sea sites under water 2008


Its my third time that I came to Burma for diving in the Andaman Sea at the Mergui Archipelago. Diving in Burma still is not very common so the number of diving tourist are limited and many rare fish species still are seen is this waters. Compared to my first visit in the Burmesian waters the fish life has reduced particularly the life of the nurse-, silver-tipped-, white-tipped-, black-tipped- a…  (read more)

Swarm of Carangidae fish

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The Carangidae is a kind of a Pacific jack mackerel.

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Mobulas far away

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Mobula is a genus of rays in the family Mobulidae found worldwide in tropical and warm, temperate seas like in the Burmesian waters.

Rock wall at the northern point

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Tower Rock at the northern part of the Mergui Archipelago, a paradise place for divers.

Burmese fishing boat crossing the route

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There are only a few fishing boats out the ocean in Burmese waters. Some of Chinese military stations are on the mainland to control the Andaman Sea. All boats in Burmese waters - included the Burma Banks - are under observation by Burmese and Chinese military stations.

Sunset at the Mergui Archipelago

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A lonely pinnacle in the Mergui Archipelago. The island group of Mergui has about 840 islands, just 3 or 4 are populated by civilian, all other islands are uninhabited or occupied by the Burmesian (and/or Chinese) Navy to control the Andaman Sea.

A lonely pinnacle

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An other pinnacle in the Mergui island group

Sunset at the Andaman Sea, Burma

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A filter feeding crinoid

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Dive buddy Harald

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Its a rule fo scuba diving to be the dive buddy on every bodies side. In case of emergency absolute essential.

This is a fish!

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Its a fish, a frogfish! Frogfish belong to the order lophiiformes commonly known as anglerfish.

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Crown-of-thorns starfish

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Large populations of crown-of-thorns starfish have been substantiated as occurring at twenty one locations of coral reefs during the 19th. These locations ranged from the Andaman Sea to the tropical Indo-Pacific region. There were at least two substantiated repeated outbreaks at ten of these locations.

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