The one place you do not want to leave Koh Tao without seeing is the Chumphon Pinnacle dive site especially if you are a diver. This is One of Koh Tao’s best divesites.
Exploring the Chumphon Pinnacle dive site
The site lies about 45 minutes from our Big Blue Diving Resort due north of Koh Tao and around 1.5 to 2 hours away from Koh Phangan and Koh Samui. As a very popular dive site, Chumphon Pinnacle is visited almost daily by local dive centers, usually in the mornings.
This massive pinnacle starts around 15 meters below the surface and stretches all the way down to 40 meters. The top of the pinnacle is entirely coated in anemones inhabited by small shrimp and playful clownfish.
Water temperatures are consistently 29-30 C/84-86 F, and visibility is often 20 meters or more.
Massive fusilier schools do their best to avoid the hunting pelagic species that frequent the pinnacle, like barracuda and the trevally which are often encountered in huge schools, while giant groupers lurk in the cracks and shyly turn away from divers that get too close. Big schools of batfish are your usual first encounter as you descend and you’ll often see lionfish hanging around the mooring lines. Chumphon Pinnacle also offers one of the best chances in the Gulf of Thailand to dive with lumbering whale sharks, an experience that every diver dreams of. This Dive Site an absolute must-dive for all visitors to the region.
We tend to dive it every morning from Big Blue with maximum group sizes per dive guide of just 4 divers with our experienced team of Divemasters.
A must dive divesite with a must dive with dive center! Leading divers around Chumphon Pinnacle since 1991!
