Shark Point

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What you'll see (17)

Indian LionfishPterois milesseen 3× near here

Black-margined NudibranchDoriprismatica atromarginataseen 3× near here

Giant MorayGymnothorax javanicusseen 2× near here

Indo-Pacific Sergeant MajorAbudefduf vaigiensisseen 1× near here

Varicose Wart SlugPhyllidia varicosaseen 1× near here

Spotted PorcupinefishDiodon hystrixseen 1× near here

Blacktip Reef SharkCarcharhinus melanopterusseen 1× near here

Blackeye ThicklipHemigymnus melapterusseen 1× near here

Greencheek ParrotfishScarus prasiognathosseen 1× near here

Indian CaloriaCaloria indicaseen 1× near here

Ocellaris AnemonefishAmphiprion ocellarisseen 1× near here

Black Longspine UrchinDiadema setosumseen 1× near here

Ringed GoniobranchGoniobranchus annulatusseen 1× near here

Mottled Lightfoot CrabGrapsus albolineatusseen 1× near here

Beautiful HypseldorisHypselodoris pulchellaseen 1× near here

Briareum hamrumseen 1× near here

Tenellia bughawseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

3–4 days

worth going for

Short flight, then a transfer.

671km from Singapore — about 8h each way. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Jul, Oct, Nov · almost nobody dives it Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Dec.

From 119 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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Monsoon

October is the worst of the season here.

Koh Tao and its neighbours run on the opposite calendar to Phuket — the gulf is at its best while the Andaman side is shut.

Northeast monsoon

The gulf's wet season. Heavy rain, wind onto the east-facing sites, and visibility that drops to a few metres after a storm. Diving continues; it just stops being worth the flight.

The year here

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Best here: March, April, May, June, July, August.

Gulf of Thailand. 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

~4h 36m

door to water, each way · 3 legs

FlightLangkawi (LGK)~3h 27mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~18 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Dive boatShark Point~51 minThe last leg is always a boat — a dive site has no address.

📍 Shark Point on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Langkawi

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: sharks
Island: Pulau Payar
Country: Malaysia
Marks: 6°4.155'N 100°2.635'E
Position: 6.0692, 100.0439

Where it is

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Nearby

OpenStreetMap has no other dive sites mapped around here — only the operators below. That means nobody has added them, not that there is nothing to dive.

Scuba Club langkawioperator41km

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.