Who can arrange? Diving Chumpon (Chumphon, Chumporn) pinnacle from Koh Samui

[ward]

Hello,

Who can arrange below trip for me?
I am currently on Koh Samui, and would like to dive Chumpon (Chumphon, Chumporn?) pinnacle for a day (can leave early, return late).

Desired date: between 15 and 20 October.
Pick-up: from resort at Lipa Noi.
Would need full equipment rental.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Matt Met]

You would be looking at a 3 hour or more 1 way trip from samui on a normal boat, 6 hrs or more both days. 2 dives 1 hr each plus 1 hour break. so a 10 hour day, unless you get a company with a speed boat. Don't know of any on samui. You could try getting a normal ferry to Koh Tao & book a private boat for a trip to chumphon, maybe Good Time Adventures on KT. Most DC's go there early morning.
Another choice is to get last boat from samui (5pm?), stay overnight, dive in the morning, & 2pm ferry back to samui.

 

[limbo]

ward, no problem, just check some dive centers and providing they get to the dive sites by speedboat, you will be in Koh Tao to drop off divers for the non deep dives at a spot and on your way to Chumphon. The second dive of the day will be all divers at the same location.

Ride over to Koh Tao, hour and a half max, back on Samui by 4pm.

One of the dc's that can offer this is The Dive Academy.

Whatever Matt is referring to is by big/slow boat and that will indeed not be an option. Most companies on Samui nowadays use speedboat service, there are only two big boat owners left and not everybody books their divers on the big/slow trips but the speedboats seem to be preferred.

 

[Matt Met]

By big/slow boat I meant the normal ferry services, don't know why i didn't write that in the first place....

 

[drbill]

Why not take the ferry to Koh Tao and dive it from there, staying overnight? I dove it while on Koh Tao and it was an interesting dive... a manta and a whale shark up in the shallows while we were doing a 100 fsw dive.