| If there is a saying that would speak the loudest for | | | | islands, with a couple of notable exceptions being |
| Cambodia diving it would be More Fish & Less | | | | Condor Reef, 6 hours out from Sihanoukville, and |
| Divers. If you look at a map of South East Asia, | | | | Sponge Factory, which is between Koh Rung |
| Cambodia is surrounded by great scuba diving. You | | | | Samleom and Koh Rung. Their use to be wrecks, but |
| have Vietnam known for its Nudibranch and soft | | | | they have been salvaged for the scrap metal. The |
| corals, and Thailand known for diving in two different | | | | US Army is still seeking "MIA's" believed to be on a |
| bodies of water, the Adman Sea, famous for its | | | | helicopter off the Northwest side of Koh Tang, that |
| leopard sharks and lion fish, and the Gulf of Thailand | | | | is still missing, but local fisherman and dive operators |
| with its warm water where whale sharks can be | | | | figure that it to have been salvaged for the very |
| seen, as well as a large assortment of reef fish like | | | | expensive metals in a helicopter, namely aluminum, |
| wrasses, parrots and angel fish. | | | | titanium and magnesium. Recently an ancient Chinese |
| In Cambodia you have 2 PADI Dive Centers and a | | | | junk wreck was found, but it is under the control of |
| few smaller dive shops with instructors from SSI, | | | | the government, and you need special permission to |
| CMAS, and NAUI. Go to Koh Toa in Thailand and you | | | | dive it. |
| have on just one small island 35 dive shops. Koh | | | | The islands in the Koh Rung Group is where the |
| Chiang has over 20 dive shops and is less than 100 | | | | majority of the day diving takes place in Cambodia |
| miles away as the crow flies from Sihanoukville, | | | | and can be reached in under 2 hours. Most the dive |
| where all the diving takes place in Cambodia. The only | | | | operators leave around 8 am and get back around 4 |
| difference between Koh Chiang in Thailand and | | | | pm after doing 2 or 3 dives. At these islands, you |
| Cambodia is a political border, fish as you can guess | | | | can find very large schools of snappers and fusiliers. |
| don't need visas, and can cross the border anytime | | | | Schools of orbital batfish often times following the |
| that they want without going through passport | | | | divers around the dive sites. As the sites are not so |
| control. | | | | deep, many dives will last over 1 hour for the divers |
| Cambodia reefs are relatively shallow and close to | | | | that are better with air consumption. |