MV Trident - Wreck and Technical Diving in the Gulf of ThailandIntroduction
Accommodation is varied on the island, ranging from basic beach side bungalows to luxury resorts. If you or your family would prefer recreational land based diving we can arrange this too with our sister school Master Divers. There are many activities for non-divers too. Although recreational diving has been popular here for twenty years, and we’ve been diving our local wrecks for that time using fishing boats, real world class technical diving has only been available since we bought the Trident in 2005.
Technical and Wreck Diving in Thiland
Since our maiden tech diving voyage we have discovered dozens of major wrecks, nearly all WW2 and all virgin. (We also found a lot of rubbish too!- see the ‘Rubbish Wrecks’ page). The submarine USS Lagarto was the most publicised but there are still many more stories to tell including the 1945 route of USS Hammerhead who sunk several marus in the Gulf of Siam. Japanese records state that 179 marus (merchant vessels) were lost in the Gulf of Thailand in WW2, we have hundreds of co-ordinates waiting to be dived, some we’ve seen on the sounder but not had a chance to dive yet.
If you like un-dived virgin wrecks and are prepared to ‘get down there and see what it is’, these trips are perfect for you. The Gulf of Thailand is an ideal place for deep technical diving, the water is generally clear, any currents are mild and the seas are calm. We can tech dive year round in the Gulf of Thailand, although the NW monsoon can blow hard in November and early December.
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MV Trident is located on Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand easily accessible from the mainland at Chumporn or from Koh Samui.
We have 90,000 sq. miles of relatively shallow water ( less than 80m) to explore. The Gulf of Thailand has been a major shipping route for hundreds of years so we’re able to dive wooden Chinese pottery wrecks, WW2 ships, airplanes and submarines, and modern wrecks.
We run exploratory | USS Lagarto Documentary featuring MV Trident picks up 3 Emmy Awards |
| MV Trident features in DAN article - Full Accident Report |
| USA 2009: Presentation at WW2 Subvets Association |
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Wreck Expedition Reports
| Long Range Tech Diving Trip, North of Koh Tao |
| 2009 Season - Four and a half new wrecks so far |
| Memorial Day 2009 Lagarto trip |