HMS Tally-Ho - Koh Lanta & Phi Phi
The HMS Tally-Ho isn’t just a pile of metal; it’s a time capsule sunk in 1944, a proper T-class submarine that feels almost alive down there. We love the way the light filters through the water onto the conning tower, painting it in shifting shades of green and blue. You can often see leopard sharks resting on the sand nearby, completely unfazed by divers, and schools of barracuda circle high above the bow. Exploring the Tally-Ho, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to poke your head into openings – the torpedo tubes are a favourite, now home to clouds of glassfish and a resident moray eel or two. The deck guns are still mostly intact, encrusted with soft corals, giving you a real sense of its history. This site really suits divers who appreciate wrecks with a story, those who enjoy picking out the details of a naval vessel now claimed by the ocean. It’s a dive that rewards slow exploration.
- Location
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand, Southeast Asia
- Coordinates
- 5.433333, 99.866670
- Type
- wreck
Nearby Dive Sites in Koh Lanta & Phi Phi
- 7 Rocks - 17m
- 8 mile rock
- Adang corner - 15-30m (reef)
- ANG LEE - 2m (wreck)
- ANIAH - 13m (wreck)
- Aow Ta Lo Lancha - 14m (reef)
- CHO SIN SAYAM 6 (POSSIBLY) - 3m (wreck)
- GASLEO - 16m (wreck)
- GINA III - 4m (wreck)
- HAI SHIN - 17m (wreck)
- Hin Daeng
- Hin Daeng / Hin Muang
- Hin Muang
- Hin Muang
- Hin Ngam Koh Rok - 13m
Nearest Dive Centres to HMS Tally-Ho
Marine Life in Koh Lanta & Phi Phi
Home to 185 recorded species including 156 reef fish, 13 hard corals, 7 seagrass & algae, 3 sea snails & nudibranchs, 2 other, 1 starfish.
Notable Species
- Species code: Ea (Enhalus acoroides) - Seagrass & Algae
- seagrass (Halophila ovalis) - Seagrass & Algae
- thalassia (Thalassia hemprichii) - Seagrass & Algae
- cymodocea (Cymodocea rotundata) - Seagrass & Algae
- Striped Triplefin (Helcogramma striata) - Reef Fish
- Wrasse (Thalassoma lunare) - Reef Fish
- Wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) - Reef Fish
- Actor Coral Goby (Gobiodon histrio) - Reef Fish
- Onelined wrasse (Labrichthys unilineatus) - Reef Fish
- Bicolor Blenny (Ecsenius bicolor) - Reef Fish
- Rock Cod (Cephalopholis boenak) - Reef Fish
- Herringbone butterflyfish (Chaetodon triangulum) - Reef Fish
- Brownbanded wrasse (Halichoeres scapularis) - Reef Fish
- Six-line wrasse (Pseudocheilinus hexataenia) - Reef Fish
- Horned Squirrelfish (Sargocentron cornutum) - Reef Fish
- Coral hind (Cephalopholis miniata) - Reef Fish
- Rainbowfish (Halichoeres hortulanus) - Reef Fish
- Telescopefish (Epibulus insidiator) - Reef Fish
- Crown of thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) - Starfish
- Kihikihi (Zanclus cornutus) - Reef Fish