Dive Sites around Cyprus

Cyclops Cave & Cliffs

Ideal for deep diving and good all round dive for most qualified divers and photographers. Variable fish life with interesting rock formations. A dive worth doing.

Access walk down to roll in entry into approximately 1.6 metres. Out to rock slope at around 5 to 6 metres, again good for skilled ad certified divers. Good wall at approximately 10 metres dive has lots of rock scenery down to approximately 14 metres with sea grass, slopes down to approx 80 metres.

Green Bay

Ideal dive for beginners and qualified divers. Sandy walk in entry in shallow sheltered bay, max depth 3 metres. Ideal for confined water skills. Follows out into open water to a max depth of 10 metres, with lots of rock and sea grass landscape ending in sand flats. Picturesque bay - lots of fish and scenery, ideal for photographers, plenty of rocks with hidey holes for octopus and moray eels, plus the fish feeding rock. Lots of lava rock formations and gullies - very picturesque. Small caves for exploring - great dive for photography and all levels of certification. Not good access for people with physical disabilities.

The Chapel

Good rock formation under cliffs, suburb cliff wall, best visited when the sun is high, a photographers delight. Again as you go further round good rock scenery at 10-14 metres with variable fish life.

Entry via concrete stairway down to a cave at waters edge. Difficult dive for divers with certain physical disabilities. A giant stride into approx 5 metres which descends down to approx 22 metres.

Tunnels & Caves

Entry over lava rock, down to rock ledge at waters edge. A difficult dive for divers with certain physical disabilities but a dive everybody enjoys. First cave low but easy access, then round to the overhang, a torch is recommended for this part of the dive but not imperative, after overhang down gulley, the tunnel is 60 metres long with a large exit point in the middle and at each end. A tour along rock gulley to sand flats and then back to tunnel and exit through centre hole. Then back to the area of the first cave over rock scenery bacl to entry point then to cave four which has a blow hole where most divers like.

Northern Cyprus

Exciting New and Exclusive Protected Dive Sites

Dives range from 12 metres to 40 metres and include and aircraft cockpit, wall and reef dives. Many are suitable for beginners but there is also plenty here for the more experienced diver to challenge. Over the course of several dives you can spot large grouper feeding on Damsel fish, very large Amberjack feeding on everything in site. Though not guaranteed there is a possibility of spotting turtles. A great opportunity to see breathtaking sites that uniquely hold government protection against damaging fishing practices, ensuring a wide range of exciting marine life. In between dives you can relax at a first class hotel with all facilities.

The Zenobia

Swedish roll-on-roll-off ferry fully loaded with 108 trailers and trucks, registered to carry up to 140 passengers. She sank on here maiden voyage to Cyprus on 7th June 1980 off Larnaca's fishing harbour. Zenobia is now lying on her side at 42 metres.

She has two decks, and two stern doors (1 port, 1 starboard), powered by two 7 cylinder, single acting, oil fired two stroke engines. They delivered 18,760 bhp.

She sank outside Larnaca's fishing harbour at 2.30am on Saturday the 7th June 1980. Her history and the intrigue over her sinking deserve an article on their own but to give you an idea the rumours range from computer error and insurance scam to Middle Eastern security forces. The most popular theory though surrounds her computerized ballasting system, as this reportedly developed a fault whilst on route to Lanarca. A maintenance team was sent aboard to correct the problem and successfully managed to correct the list to 5 degrees. However, at 5pm on the evening of the 6th June 1980 the Captain mistakingly dismissed them, dispatching them back to land. This was later to prove to be a fatal mistake as the following day at 2am she sank, taking her cargo to her final resting place...