Tag: Simillan Islands
Groupers in Thailand Seas
by admin on Apr.22, 2010, under Thailand
I have spent around 40 days in Thailand and was able to do around 20 dives with scuba and 10 free dives. I had a chance to get quite a good amount of UW pictures and different species from there. There are pictures that I am really satisfied with an there are some places where the visibility was poor. But overally, I could say this was a succesful trip for me!
I am going to shoh here the grouper species that I was able to photograph. Groupers are among the family of Serranidae and I guess I had 7-8 different species of them in this trip.
Please click on the figure in order to enlarge them
The first one is the Blacktip Grouper
They are a small type of grouper. Blacktip gropers grow up to 40 cm and 2 kg.
Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775)
The second one is Malabar grouper,
They are huge in size, one of the biggest ones. They can get around 150 kg and 1.5 m long
Epinephelus malabaricus Forsskål, 1775
This one known as Coral Rock Cod or Coral grouper. It has beautiful bright red color all over its body. It can grow to a size of 45 cm.
Cephalopholis miniata (Forsskål, 1775)
Another one with blue line over his body. know as Bluelined Grouper or Blue line rock cod.
It can grow to a size of 35 cm.
Cephalopholis formosa (Shaw, 1812)
I would like to give my special thanks to BIGBLUE in Koh Tao and …. inSimilland Islands for supporting me for these dives. Thank you! Go and visit them they are both very professional and nicely operated dive centers
Turtle in Similland Islands
by admin on Feb.21, 2010, under VIDEOS
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