Marine Life
 The Andaman Sea is a body of water to the
southeast of the Bay of Bengal, south of Myanmar,
west of Thailand and east of the Andaman Islands; it
is part of the Indian Ocean. It is roughly 1200
kilometres long (north-south) and 650 kilometres
wide (east-west), with an area of 797,700 km square.
Its average depth is 870 meters, and the maximum
depth is 3,777 meters. Hence with the area that
Andaman occupies, there are many marine lives, rare
species of plants and undersea lives.
Underwater lives found in Andaman Sea
Whale Sharks are found in the Myanmar marine life
in the Andaman Sea. Manta Ray is found at Myanmar's
Black Rock, North Twin and Klaus Reef. Gray reef
sharks from Myanmar's shark cave and juvenile
silvertip reef sharks from the Burma Banks are
popular species to observe when diving. Giant
Anglerfish are astonishing giant anglerfish,
perfectly disguised on the reef as a sponge. Burma’s
Black Rock also has some 20 black blotched
stingrays. At Western Rocky Island in Burma's Mergui
archipelago aggressive big red octopuses inhabits.
In the depths of the Mergui Archipelago, tile fish
use their mouths to build enormous mounds of dead
coral. When threatened, the fish dive head first
into the rubble. This species remains undescried by
scientists and has been provisionally named
Hoplolatilus hopei, or Hope's tilefish.
Myeik Archipelago
The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago)
is an archipelago off the western shore of the Malay
Peninsula in far southern Myanmar. It consists of
more than 800 islands, varying in size from very
small to hundreds of square kilometres.
The local people are an ethnic minority called
the Moken, sometimes known as sea gypsies, although
this term actually covers several groups in
Southeast Asia. They are a sea-dwelling people and
they follow a traditional way of life, doing things
such as fishing and building boats very much the way
they have been done for centuries. They can be found
living on their traditional boats during the dry
season, but usually keep to land in the rainy
season.
Owing to the archipelago's remoteness, a
liveaboard cruise is the only way for visitors to
reach diving areas with names such as Big Bank,
Rainbow Reef or Silvertip Bank. The best diving
conditions exist from December to April, with whale
sharks and manta rays visiting from February to May.
Tour Operators
If you need detail information about Marine Life,
please contact the following tour operators in
Myanmar.
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