DIVE SITES

All level divers

Experienced divers

One day trip, 2 dives

Crete dive sites range from ancient remnants, through wrecks, rocky slopes, caverns, walls, to reefs and “drop offs”. Additionally, the crystal clear waters offer visibility up to 30 meters. In a nutshell, this is scuba diving in Crete!

House Reef

Our house reef is a perfect place to do refresh dives and discover scuba diving. We start the dive from the beach just 20 meters from the dive center, we swim above a sandy bottom where we can practice skills in a very shallow area and then we go through an amazing journey full of fish swimming around the statues, to a big anchor at a depth of 6 meters. There we can also see a family of squids living in the area. We continue until we find a reef with rich marine life as octopus, puffer fish and sars. It’s the perfect place for a fun and shallow dive before exploring more Crete dive sites!

THE WRECKS

This dive site is only two minutes drive from the dive center by boat. First we descend to 5 meters depth and we reach the first wreck at a depth of 18 meters which is an old wooden fishing boat 15 meters long from which there is only pieces of wood left but you can still spot the rock ballast. Then going a little deeper around 24 meters you will find a small sailing boat resting on the bottom in two parts. Going to 26 meters, the biggest wreck will appear, a motorsailer that was sunk here on purpose for divers to enjoy it! The wreck is a wonderful habitat for marine life and we can often spot groupers, moray eels, octopus, lion fish, trigger fish, crevalle jack fish and sometimes stingrays around. All the wrecks are safe for any divers to go as there is no place to get stuck or trapped inside.

THE ANCHORS

This dive site is less than five minutes away by boat, the dive starts from 2 meters depth and the water is crystal clear all year round. It’s perfect for open water divers and refresh dives. There you will see countless fish swimming around you including groupers, some amazing Spanish dancers around the rocks, many of the famous lion fish, if you get lucky you might see some barracudas and octopus too!

Kamini 1 & 2

Only five minutes from the dive center by boat, this dive starts at 5 meters depth and goes slowly down to 20 meters. There you will find a wall that goes down to 35 meters. It’s the perfect spot to meet groupers, barracudas, lion fish, moray eels, stingrays and nudibranchs.

THE CAVE

Five minutes from the dive center by boat, this dive site is named the cave because this is what we see on the shore outside of the water. Once under the surface, the cave disappears and we find a rocky ground. The dive start at 5 meters and goes down to 25 meters. It’s the perfect spot to meet groupers, barracudas, lion fish, moray eels, stingrays, nudibranchs and octopus. At the end of the dive under the boat we can find many small marine life on the rocky ground.

THE DEEP WRECK

The dive is only five minutes away from the dive center by boat. It begins at 8 meters depth. This dive site is famous for it’s multiple nudibranchs and many lion fish and spirographs. This wreck called doré was a wooden boat that has been all eaten by the shipworms and we can see only some remains of that boat. However it’s a great spot to see moray eels, nudibranchs, lion fish, stingrays, groupers, trigger fish and crevalle jack fish.

Engine of a German junker 88 airplane, not any kind of Crete dive site

Pleora 1 & 2

After about ten minutes by boat from the dive center, we will start the dive at a depth of 10 meters before going slowly down. You will be amazed to see some small caverns, some remains from World War II in which the engine of a German junker 88 airplane, and shells of some bombs. This is a great spot to meet some Crevalle jack fish, lion fish, barracudas, groupers and the usual Mediterranean marine life.

ExplosioN

We start the dive from 3 meters depth. During the dive we can see many parts of the bronze shells of the guns and many stones that fell in the water from the cliff that are a great habitat for marine life as lions fish, groupers, barracudas, nudibranchs and the usual Mediterranean fish. At the end of the dive when we start going back, up there is a big wall from 18 meters to the surface.

Explosion 2

On this dive we start at a depth of 4 meters and we go out to the open sea following the top of the reef for 100 meters. Then we go either on the left or on the the right where there is a drop off going down to 30 meters from both sides.
We can see lions fish, groupers, barracudas, nudibranchs and the usual Mediterranean fish.

Seagull islanD

This dive site is made of many huge stones underwater which are amazing to explore. Each stone has incredible marine life like lion fish, moray eels and groupers. If we look in the blue we can often see many barracudas. There might be a small current on the way back to the boat.

Underwater light at Triton cave, a unique Crete dive site

The triton cavE

At the depth of only 3,5 meters there is the entrance of the cave which is wide enough to let 3 or 4 divers to go at the same time. You can see many small marine life on the walls like shrimps. All the way in there is air on top of us. As you go in you can see the light from the surface going through the wholes in the rocks to illuminate the inside of the cave. The light and dark effects there makes it a magical and unforgettable dive. Sometimes we get lucky enough to meet a seal swimming right next to us! What a treat to count this one as part of our Crete dive sites!

pseira

Among Crete dive sites, this one is an immersion into the Ancient Greece. There we can see so many amphoras that it’s impossible to count. Most of them are broken and they are all stuck together to make an underwater amphoras mountain. The archeologists believe that those ceramics amphoras fell in the water along with the houses that were there during the eruption of Santorini volcano. Marine life is also rich there and we can see lions fish, nudibranchs and many small marine life.

Ksopetres

The dive starts from 8 meters depth and we go slowly down following some underwater mountains shaped rocks down to 22 meters. We go around those mountains in a circle to explore and find many marine life as sleeper lobsters, mediterranean cardinal fish, groupers, crevalle jack fish and barracudas.

sminera

The dive starts from 6 meters depth and we follow the reef down to 18 meters where we find a wall that goes down to 40 meters. There we can find sleeper lobster, Mediterranean cardinal fish, groupers, crevalle jack fish and barracudas.