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 in Burma
MacLeod Bay
- Site Layout:
- Gently sloping sheltered hard coral and boulder reef
- Diving depth:
- 11m to 30m+
- Currents:
- Generally gentle but can run at full moon
- Visibility:
- Around 20m
- Surface:
- Very sheltered, normally flat
- Site access:
- Dinghy
In the south bay of McLeod Island, location of the Myanmar Andaman Resort, lies this sheltered night dive. With both soft corals and hard corals along a rocky limestone promontory, there is plenty to see on this site that is only ever seen by divers on MV Philkade in the hours of darkness. On the sand, keep your eyes open for feeding Tube Anemones and Upside-down Jellyfish. While on the rocky areas you can see Banded Sea Kraits, feeding Lion Fish, and sometimes even a Hawksbill Turtle.
Select other Burma Dive Sites you can see on your liveaboard trip.
- Black Rock
- Macca Tee
- North Twin Pinnacles
- North Twin Reef
- NOT North Rock
- Sea Fan Forest
- Shark Cave
- Sharp Peak Pinnacle
- St George's Rock
- Western Rocky
For general tourist information for the Mergui Archipelago see the Official Mergui Archipelago Website.
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