Located on the east side of Koh Bangu (Similan Island number 9), Breakfast Bend is a very popular dive site for liveaboard boats in the Similan Islands and is usually dived first thing in the morning, hence the given name. This is a good site to do as your first dive of the day on your liveaboard trip before motoring north to Koh Bon and Koh Tachai.  The visibility here is always excellent especially in the morning as the sun light pours over the reef creating lighting effects that Hollywood movie makers could never create with a computer. The reef life here is prolific and, despite some coral damage in the southern section of the dive site caused by the 2004 tsunami, the coral on Breakfast Bend is in very good condition.
This is an easy dive site with a gentle current over the reef sections suitable for all levels of diver. Currents can be stronger around the boulders making a very nice drift dive. The reef starts at 5m from the surface and drops down to 34m. Much of the dive will be spent between 10m and 20m. This site is also suitable for snorkellers. There are two mooring buoys on the site and most dives are started with a giant stride entry of the boat platform. When conditions allow, Breakfast Bend can make an excellent night dive.
The dive normally starts around the large granite boulders in the south and ends on the sloping hard coral reef in the north. There are some small swim throughs around the boulders. Check in cracks and crevices for white tip reef sharks. Angelfish, bannerfish, triggerfish, grouper and parrotfish are just a few of the fish swimming around the rocks.... Continued >>
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