In January 2017 I visited the Mergui Islands in Myanmar on an exploratory trip with Andaman Snorkel Discovery. After being off limits for many years the Mergui islands are being opened up to visitors. Some dive boats have been coming for a while, but ours was apparently the first commercial snorkel trip. What would we find ? to be honest I was a bit disappointed, the visibility was not good in many places, fish life was not as abundant as in the nearby Similan islands of Thailand, and while the islands looked beautiful from the boat when we went ashore we found rubbish and storm debris along the high water mark .....pristine paradise it is not.
Photos shot with a GoPro Hero 5 Black, and a Canon G7X in an underwater housing.