{"id":4418,"date":"2016-07-06T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diving-thailand-phuket.com\/de\/richelieu-rock-top-tauchplatz-thailand\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T01:09:34","slug":"richelieu-rock-top-tauchplatz-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diving-thailand-phuket.com\/de\/richelieu-rock-top-tauchplatz-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Richelieu Rock &#8211; Top Tauchplatz Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Richelieu Rock &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Der liebe Gott hat sich in den sieben Tagen wo er die Welt erschaffen hat, hier wohl besonders\u00a0 viel M\u00fche gegeben. Der <b>Richelieu Rock<\/b> ist wohl der <b>beste Tauchplatz in Thailand<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>Die Geschichten wie der Tauchplatz entdeckt wurde und seinen Namen bekommen hat gehen weit auseinander. So hei\u00dft es das ein <span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"de\">franz\u00f6sisch<\/span> katholischer Missionar, der w\u00e4hrend der beiden Weltkriege in Thailand war und diesen entdeckt hat. Er hat gerne geangelt und geschnorchelt und wurde dann von einheimischen Fischern darauf aufmerksam gemacht, das es zwischen dem Festland und Surin Island ein Riff gibt was sehr viel Fisch hat. So ist er dann raus und hat sich den Platz angeschaut und war fasziniert, von dem was er sah. Jahre sp\u00e4ter ist der gute Mensch dann wieder nach Frankreich und hat einen jungen Mann, der sich der Meeresforschung angenommen hat, getroffen. Es war Jacques Cousteau. Darauf ist Jacques mit sein Team nach Thailand und hat hier getaucht und taufte den Platz &#8220;Richelieu Rock&#8221;. Benannt nach dem Kardinal Richelieu wollte er dem Missionar wohl einen Gefallen tun. Die roten und purpurfarbenen Weichkorallen mit dem das Riff bewachsen ist hat ihn wohl an die Robe des Kardinals erinnert.<\/p>\n<p>Der Richelieu Rock ist ca.18 Km vom Surin Nationalpark entfernt und kommt nur bei Ebbe aus dem Wasser. Das Riff ist nicht besonders gro\u00df, aber man sollte hier doch mehre Tauchg\u00e4nge machen. Von der Oberfl\u00e4che endet das Riff an der tiefsten Stelle bei 32 Meter.Gleich beim abtauchen sieht man riesige Felder von Anemonen, die den flachen Teil des ganzen Riffs bedecken. Das Riff sieht aus wie ein Hufeisen, so ist es am\u00a0 Felsen\u00a0auf der S\u00fcdseite mit 14 Meter eher flach was sich dann aber links und rechts in die Tiefe neigt. Die Nordseite geht da schon etwas tiefer und hat noch au\u00dferhalb einige Felsen. Es gibt hier an die 100 verschieden Arten von Korallen, was den Tauchplatz damit einzigartig macht. Die Weichkorallen haben hier die \u00dcberhand und schimmern in einem herrlichen rot und violett.<\/p>\n<p>Hier gibt es alles was man sich im Makrobereich vorstellen kann. Nacktschnecken von der Warzenschnecke bis zum Blue Dragon. Krebse von Durban Shrimps \u00fcber Harlekin Shrimps bis zum Fangschreckenkrebs. Geisterfetzenfische, Seepferdchen und Anglerfisch, eigentlich alles was man in den B\u00fcchern so findet.<\/p>\n<p>Oktopusse und Sepia sind oft und in ansehnlicher Gr\u00f6\u00dfe vertreten. Mur\u00e4nen, Skorpionfische und Rotfeuerfische sind hier eher die unspektakul\u00e4rsten, sie sind \u00fcberall. Der Fischreichtum im Freiwasser ist gigantisch mit Schulen von Barakudas, Makrelen und Travelys.<\/p>\n<p>Es ist hier vielleicht die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Chance einen Walhai zu Gesicht zu bekommen. Auch Mantas hat man hier schon gesehen, nicht so oft wie an anderen Pl\u00e4tzen aber gelegentlich sind sie auch hier.<\/p>\n<p>Die Sichtweite ist auch hier sehr unterschiedlich, mit 20 Meter hat man einen guten Tag erwischt. Die Str\u00f6mung ist hier kein Problem, bei auflaufendem Wasser wird die Nordseite getaucht und bei ablaufendem die S\u00fcdseite. Aber am meisten ist immer da los wo die Str\u00f6mung ist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richelieu Rock &#8211;\u00a0Der liebe Gott hat sich in den sieben Tagen wo er die Welt erschaffen hat, hier wohl besonders\u00a0 viel M\u00fche gegeben. Der Richelieu Rock ist wohl der beste Tauchplatz in Thailand! Die Geschichten wie der Tauchplatz entdeckt wurde und seinen Namen bekommen hat gehen weit auseinander. So hei\u00dft es das ein franz\u00f6sisch katholischer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[caption id=\"attachment_2421\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\"]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diving-thailand-phuket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Whale-Shark-and-Sun.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-2421 size-medium\" title=\"Whale Shark at Richelieu Rock, the best Diving Thailand Site\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diving-thailand-phuket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Whale-Shark-and-Sun-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Whale Shark at Richelieu Rock, the best Diving Thailand Site\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a> Whale Shark at Richelieu[\/caption]<p>Richelieu Rock - Some people um and ah about this saying may be and possibly but let\u2019s cut this out and state categorically Richelieu Rock is the Best Dive Site in Thailand!<\/p><p>It is a rock that breaks the surface for about 12 hours a day, 18 kilometers from <a title=\"Surin Islands\" href=\"\/?page_id=2345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surin Islands<\/a> and about double that from the mainland and very close to the Burmese Border.<\/p><p>How was it found? \u2013 as with a lot of sites the fishermen knew about it long before divers did.<\/p><p>There are many stories as to how this site was named, some say it was named after Cardinal Richelieu as the northern side is covered in red soft corals making it look like a cardinals robe. Our favourite story is that it was named after a French catholic missionary who was in Thailand between the wars (obviously very successful as less that 1% of the population is Christian), his real reason for coming to Thailand was his love of snorkelling and fishing. Some of the locals told him about this good fishing spot, he came out in his boat, in the middle of the open ocean he suddenly hit something, jumping out to check the damage he was amazed at what he saw below. Many years later he was back in France and at a meeting of the French diving Federation he met a young man he thought would be interested \u2013 and that is why Jacques Cousteau came to Thailand and spent 3 weeks at Richelieu Rock. There are also stories that it was named after a Thai General. Whichever way it was the name was given to the site by Jacques Cousteau.<\/p><p>The dive site is a limestone horse shoe facing south which touches the sand at 30 metres on the outside and about 15 metres on the inside. Though this dive site is particularly famous for Whale Shark sightings that is but a tiny part of the story. Manta Rays, Guitar Sharks and Nurse Sharks are spotted here but almost every day you will she huge schoals of Pick Handleand Chevron Barracuda hovering around the ridge, Giant Morays hiding in the hard corals and Peacock Mantis Shrimp looking at you out of their holes but even this is just scratching the surface. The real beauty here is in the macro life which is just everywhere \u2013 Boxer Shrimp, Durban Dancing Shrimp (good for a manicure), Blue Line Cleaner Shrimps (teeth cleaning), Harlequin Shrimps (rare and beautiful), Tiger Tail Seahorse, Ornate Ghost Pipefish, Reef Top Pipefish, Bentstick Pipefish and Pineapple Fish. All this plus the standard reef fish \u2013 Trigger Fish, Parrot Fish, Butterfly Fish, Angel Fish, Moorish Idols, Snappers Fussiliers, Admirals, Tuna and Trevallies. On top of the reef the rocks are covered with Anemones which in turn are full of Anemone Fish \u2013 there are Clown Fish, Clarks Anemone Fish, Skunk Anemone Fish and Tomato Blotch Anemone Fish.<\/p><p>Simply put you cannot do this dive site justice in one dive, an absolute minimum of two dives is required here.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[215,201],"tags":[216,202],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surin-island","category-thailand-tauchplaetze","tag-surin-island","tag-thailand-tauchplaetze"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richelieu Rock - 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