Furana Thila

The idea of this dive is to cross a small channel which is about 20meter in length and cross over to the Thila where the top of the reef is about 12-15 meters deep and slopes down on both sides to 25-30 meters. The most exciting part of the dive is at the start while drifting keeping the reef to the left hand shoulder with the current towards the channel. You can encounter many pelagic fishes such as Dog-Toothed tunas in packs, giant trevally hunting in the blue, white tips sharks riding the current and huge schools of fusilier fish. The excitement keeps increasing when you will encounter small to big sized Napoleon fish and gliding eagle rays. Do expect to see a lot of fish life over here with a lot of table coral and thousands of tropical fishes. While drifting closer to the corner of the reef divers should monitor their buoyancy as the currents can be strong. After crossing the small channel you will arrive at the top of the Thila as interesting as the side of the reef which slopes down. There are a lot of Mushroom corals in this dive site and many divers have observed nurse sharks resting under these enormous rocks. The site is more suitable for experienced divers when there is a medium current and for beginners with a small current. This is an exciting dive site during the months of September until mid November as manta rays can be often seen during the dive. Located at the North end of Full-Moon Resort. With ingoing currents divers can begin this dive before the north end corner of the Full Moon out side reef. Furana Thila is also known as Furana North.