Welcome to MATAPHON WRECK dive site
exploring PATTAYA's UNDERWATERDIVE SITES
About HTMS Mataphon Wreck
The Mataphon is a WW2 ship that was sank in 2012 of the Pattaya Near island of Koh Lan. The Mataphon lays upright on the sand below 23 meters of seawater. This is a slightly smaller wreck dive site compared to the other wreck dives in Pattaya but you can get longer bottoms times to explore the deck is at 18-19 meters.
The Mataphon Wreck is nice and wide open. Wreck divers can explore from bow to stern easy within one dive and swim all the way around the shipwreck. The Sandy banks the side are perfect to looking for nudibranch and also keep an eye out on the sand for Seahorse with their tails wrapped around the sea urchins.
The Wreck Dive Site can actaully be 2 dive sites; HTMS Mataphon and The Mataphon Cubes. The Wreck was later surrounded by hallow cube structures to offer it further protection from the currents but these cubes are now teeming with aquatic life also and could be a dive within themselves.
Depth range of the wreck is 15m at the upper mast area down to–19 meters at the deck. If you are an avid muck diver, you will enjoy the deck and the sandy surrounds where seahorse and nudibranch and other macro life is found.
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Before she became a Pattaya Shipwreck, Mataphon was originally a transport ship. She carried such things as tanks, supplies, and also troops. It’s common for divers to see many small fish together with bigger fish because of its depths, shallow water fishes seem to feel very comfortable living on this vessel.
