John Bantin heads for Thailand's Similan Islands and Richelieu Rock on a sailing boat purpose-built for divers more...

Diving the land of smiles more...

Thailand offers a wealth of underwater treasures to delight the most jaded diver, says LOUISA BUTLER. In a two-week trip you could enjoy a world-class liveaboard to the Similan Islands, the fabulous limestone islands of Koh Haa and fine diving quality at the Red and Purple Rocks. Pictures by ADAM BUTLER more...

When it's high season in western Thailand, it's low season in the east, so in theory you should always find somewhere decent to dive. If you're lucky, you might even find low-season prices combined with high-season weather. Zac Macaulay hopes for the best more...

The Junk, groaning under the weight of the food supplies it carries, provides a unique way of exploring Thailand's underwater world - eat a meal, dive it off, eat a meal, dive it off... But it's far from junk food, and Andy Blackford was happy more...

You'll find good-value holiday diving in Thailand as long as you make sure to be in the right part at the right time. John Liddiard puts in a word for sites south of Phuket more...

You never know what's around the next corner in Thailand's undersea jungle, says Gavin Anderson, who reckons the time is still ripe to take advantage of cheap flights and accommodation in Phuket more...

Diving hotspots in South-east Asia had reason to fear a knee-jerk loss of business after the Boxing Day Tsunami.In the first of three reports from South-east Asia, John Liddiard heads for Thailand to assess its impact on the reefs more...

As far as we know, sea creatures are indifferent to national borders, but do these invisible lines affect the diving in any way? Mark Webster and John Bantin find out on either side of the Thailand-Burma frontier in the Andaman sea more...

Koh Tao isn't everybody's idea of a holiday, but it's the business when it comes to fun diving for gap-year travellers and budgetwise backpackers in an exotic setting. Zac Macaulay feels his age more...

The trip got off to a bad start, but the evidence of ultimate success is there for all to see in the photographs Fred Bavendam brought back from a liveaboard trip in Thai and Burmese waters more...

Bernard Eaton's acquaintance with the waters of Thailand's largest island started some time before he glimpsed the coral-filled shallows of the Andaman Sea more...