The Andaman & Nicobar Islands are one of the worlds most pristine marine enviroments. Commercial fishing is illegal, never have these waters seen longliners or dragnetters. The Indian Authorites keep a close watch on the waters and any boats trying to sneak in to fin sharks or catch Tuna will be caught, the crew put in prison and the boat impounded. As a result there are big fish everywhere, you will see numerous large schools of tuna every day, the size of some of the bait balls has to be seen to be believed.The Andaman & Nicobar are a group of picturesque Islands, big and small, inhabited and uninhabited, a total of 572 islands, islets and rocks lying in the South Eastern Part of the Bay of Bengal. Of the 572 islands, only 36 are inhabited, there are still stone age tribes on some of the islands, they have no contact with the outside world and are still hunter/gatherers having not discovered farming. Previous attempts to make contact with these tribes has resulted in primitive spears being thrown, they have made it quite clear they want nothing to do with the outside world.

The islands lie along an arc in a long and narrow broken chain, approximately North-South over a distance nearly 800 kms. It is logical to presume a former land connection form Cape Negris at South part of Burma to Achin Head (Cape Pedro) in Andalas (Sumatra). The flora and fauna of these islands, however, indicate that this land connection if it existed, should have been prior to the development of their present life form. The total area of the Andaman Islands is some 6,408 km² that of the Nicobar Islands approximately 1,841 km².