Low Wai Hoe
Thailand
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Nº51
Date: 2008-01-11 - 11:37
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Max Depth: 27.5m Duration: 36mins
Dive Location
- Temp: Bottom 29°C
- Dive type : Recreational, Wreck
- Visibility: Average Water: Salt
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- Weights: 4 kg
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Scuba Cat Diving confirmed the dive with parameters: 27.5m / 36mins
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Angela Cheng,
Dave Hubbard,
Christian Schmid
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The King Cruiser wreck is the wreck of the car ferry of the same name that sank off the West Coast of Southern Thailand on 4 May 1997.
The ferry was operating between Phuket and the Phi Phi Islands in southern Thailand when she hit a submerged collection of rocky pinnacles at Anemone Reef 10 miles off Phi Phi Island. The impact split the reef in two and also tore a large hole in the hull limiting its seaworthiness to a further thousand metres. The vessel sank within 2.5 hours.
The vessel is now a popular recreational dive site and acts as an artificial reef to compliment the Anenome Reef. The vessel sits upright on a sandy bottom in around 30m of water rising to ~10m at the top of the wreck. The wreck remains in one piece although the foreword upper deck has collapsed. The simplest and safest point of entry is through the vessels stern where divers can explore the once active car decks. The collapsed foredeck is at 16 metres where there is a stack of plastic picnic tables and chairs often surrounded by a cloud of snappers.
Soft corals can be found growing along the sides and top of the wreck. Schools of bigeye trevally are often spotted circling above the captain's cabin. Large schools of yellow snapper hang around the entrances to the car deck and along the remains of the upper deck, plus lionfish can be seen dotted around the wreck. There are also occasional encounters with leopard sharks and bamboo sharks, barracuda and turtles.