Koh Tao has some new residents which have moved into the White Rock dive site! Two broadhead flatheads have decided to make the small cave at the bottom of the west buoyline their home.

While filming a PADI Open Water course for Simple Life Divers, the group and I decided to pay the flatheads a visit. It took my eyes a while to adjust before I saw them. With their sand-coloured bodies, they are very well camouflaged, and you have to distinguish their eyes first to be able to find them. Luckily for us, one of the flatheads got a bit of a fright when he saw us coming, and moved very quickly out of his little sand pit so we could get a glimpse of his entire body.

The flatheads have become celebrities in Koh Tao, with word spreading fast and many divers now on a mission to find them. The only thing is that word is going around that they are crocodile fish, as they look very much like them. They are, in fact, closely related and very difficult to distinguish but the Oceans Below staff and trainees have done their homework- consulting numerous websites and fish books and we agree that they are definitely broadhead flatheads. They can grow to a maximum of 31 centimetres in length. The White Rock flatheads are not yet fully grown, with one being bigger than the other. We hope our new fish friends decide to stay!