Pufferfish contain tetrodotoxin, a substance that makes them foul tasting and often lethal to fish. To humans, tetrodotoxin is deadly, up to 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide. There is enough toxin in one pufferfish to kill 30 adult humans, and there is no known antidote.
Liveaboard Diving at Ko Phi Phi
Hin Bida
- Site Layout:
- Sprawling limestone rock pinnacle with hard corals
- Diving depth:
- Surface to 26m
- Currents:
- Mild to moderate
- Visibility:
- Up to 25m
- Surface:
- Open water so can get choppy at certain points through the season
- Site access:
- Dinghy
Hin Bida (sometimes called Phi Phi Shark Point) is a gently sloping limestone pinnacle some five miles to the south of Ko Phi Phi Leh. Though you can be unlucky and not see Leopard Sharks, it is unusual to not see at least one sleeping the day away on the sand around the base of the pinnacle. While on the reef sections of the pinnacle you cans see schools of Five Line Snapper, and Neon Fusilier as well as numerous Harlequin and Oriental Sweetlips as well as various Groupers and Angel Fish.
The reef itself is mostly hard corals, but there are large patches of Hemprich's Soft Coral as well as numerous Feather Stars and Brittle Stars hanging from the plentiful Sea Fans and Bush Corals.
Select other Ko Phi Phi Dive Sites you can see on your liveaboard trip.
For more information on Ko Phi Phi, visit the Ko Phi Phi National Park Official Site.
To see more dive sites in Thailand, choose another area:
Thailand liveaboard - Northern Phuket dive sites
Similan Islands -
Surin Islands - Ko Bon - Ko Tachai - Richelieu Rock
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Ko Haa Islands - Hin Daeng and Hin Muang
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