Diving Safari in Burma
Burma (Myanmar) - a country located next to Thailand, is a very popular destination for diving safaris .
Diving in Burma began to develop in 1997, when the government allowed diving in the Mergui Archipelago, although it set a rather high cost for visiting this National Park.
Today it is 250 US dollars. Such measures have had a "positive" effect on the number of divers who visit Burma's dive sites - in most places your ship will be the only ship from which anyone dives. So, if you want to dive among a lot of fish and not divers, Burma will please you.
The Mergui Archipelago is a group of more than 800 islands. The most popular diving destinations in Burma are the Burma Banks and Black Rock. Many dive sites in Burma consist of a small rock on the surface that goes under the water with vertical or gentle walls, covered with hard and soft corals.
In general, diving conditions are comparable to those in Thailand - visibility is determined by currents, which are especially strong during the full and new moon. Strong currents transport large amounts of plankton, which attract manta rays and whale sharks. In general, we can say that in terms of the diversity of living creatures and corals, Burma outperforms Thailand.
Most ships depart to Burma from Thailand and, therefore, very often a diving safari to Burma is combined with a visit to the dive sites of the Similan Islands, and, of course, the Richelieu Rocks.