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
Sharp Peak Pinnacle
- Site Layout:
- Granite and limestone pinnacle
- Diving depth:
- 3m to 28m
- Currents:
- Can be strong, but the site offers lots of shelter
- Visibility:
- Up to 20m
- Surface:
- Quite sheltered and calm
- Site access:
- Dinghy
In a bay to the west of Clara Island in the shadow of Sharp Peak (hence the name), lies this submerged pinnacle. Coated from top to bottom in Cup Corals that are all open when done as a sunset dive, this site also has a healthy covering of Hemprich's Soft Corals and White Bush Corals. Plenty of Sweetlips and Snapper surround the pinnacle with schools of Unicorn Fish and Surgeon Fish ever present. Plenty of macro action, as in all the bays that can suffer with visibility in Myanmar, including a wide selection of Glossodoris and Chromodoris Nudibranchs and several types of Pipe Fish. Kuhl's Rays rest on the sand and there have even been sightings of Eagle Rays here.
Select other Burma Dive Sites you can see on your liveaboard trip.
- Black Rock
- Macca Tee
- MacLeod Bay
- North Twin Pinnacles
- North Twin Reef
- NOT North Rock
- Sea Fan Forest
- Shark Cave
- St George's Rock
- Western Rocky
For general tourist information for the Mergui Archipelago see the Official Mergui Archipelago Website.
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