South Button

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What you'll see (2)

Sky Blue PhyllidiaPhyllidia coelestisseen 1× near here

Erroneous CowrieErronea erronesseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

4–7 days

worth going for

Flight, then a boat or domestic hop.

1,697km from Singapore — about 12h each way, so two of those days are travel. 12 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Jan, Apr, Dec · almost nobody dives it Jun, Aug, Sep, Nov.

From 277 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Monsoon

Good

October works.

India's side of the same sea, on the same southwest monsoon calendar.

The year here

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Best here: December, January, February, March, April.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Written by hand from how the season actually runs, calibrated against what the boats do, since a season that disagrees with the operators is wrong however good the meteorology behind it. It describes most years, not this one: the forecast above is what knows about next week.

Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~7h 3m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightPort Blair (IXZ)~4h 45mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~27 minHavelock is a two-hour ferry from here.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~1h 21mAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatSouth Button~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 South Button on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Port Blair

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: South Button
Island: Henry Lawrence Island
Country: Andaman Islands
Marks: 12°13.423'N 93°1.186'E
Position: 12.2237, 93.0198

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.