Our Diving Spots
Uncover the secrets of the Aegean Sea
Our Shore Dives
One or our highlight spots! These dives are for training, as well as for experienced divers who are looking for a relaxed dive
Our daily Boat Dives
These dives take place everyday except Sunday.
The exact location is decided on the day depending the weather conditions.
Our Special Boat Dives
These dives are scheduled upon request. All the diving sites are for experienced divers with an Advanced Open Water Certification.
They are also very depending on the weather conditions.
Our shore dive:
Our shore dive is one of our highlight dives! We are lucky enough to have a beautiful reef right in front of our base, which splits into two routes, the northern route "Octopus Garden", 5-15m deep, and the easter route "House reef" 5-8m deep.
Octopus Garden
A splendid dive in a typical Mediterranean environment. The northern route of our shore dive, "Octopus Garden" offers meadows of Posidonia Oceanica, starfish, pufferfish high chances of seeing octopus and nudibranchs, schools of barracudas at the beginning and end of the season.
In addition, we are lucky to have a couple beautiful turtles living in the area. Perhaps you will cross their path.
The dives starts at 3 meters and can reach a max of 15m depending air consumption.
Perfect for divers looking for a slow and relaxed dive, for training dives, or macro photography.
Access : From the shore
Required certification : Open Water
House Reef
House reef is the eastern route of our shore dive. It's ideal for beginner classes, training dives and refresher dives. It offers a great color palette and beautiful lighting because of its shallow waters, with many schools of small salt water fish. The bottom is rocky with some patches of sand, making it ideal for spotting marine life. Small octopuses have their homes here and the water is clear and blue most of the time. Barracudas lay their eggs nearby and can be seen at the beginning and end of the season here.
Depths ranging from 2 to 8 m dive directly to the front of the dive center.
Perfect for divers looking for a slow and relaxed dive, for training dives, or macro photography.
Access : From the shore
Required certification : Open Water
Our daily boat dives:
These dives take place everyday except Sunday.
The exact location is decided on the day depending the weather conditions.
St. George Cave
St George is a divespot about 10-15 min by boat from our base, that offers two separate routes. St George starts at 8m and reachers around 12m. Deep St George starts at 12m and can reach depths of 24m. The routes are formed by a big wall that starts below the church of St. George. Right at the start we have a small cave, 3m deep, 3m wide and 15m long with a skylight at the end, allowing natural light to fill the inside. Two small canyons are also found along the wall. Groupers, octopus and moray eels live have their home here, as well as lionfish and stingrays.
With Depths between 8m and 24m, this spot is perfect for a variety of divers.
Access : Boat
Required certification : Open Water - Advanced (For the deep part of the spot)
Kori Reef
"Kori" in Greek means daughter. At Kori reef we have a rock in the middle of the bay, which looks like a woman carrying a basket. According to cretan mythology, she was the daughter of a farmer in the area, that turned into stone because she was not listening to her mother. There are multiple versions of the story of why she turned into stone, join our dive to Kori to listen to our favorite version. The "Kori" rock is a 10 minutes drive with the boat, beautiful colorful dive in depths between 10 and 13 m. The sand and outcropping rocky wall create a nice combination light and color.
A dive for people who want to enjoy a long and pleasant dive.
Access : Boat
Required certification : Open Water
Golden Reef
The wall of Golden Reef is a divespot about 5 minutes ride form our base, with multiple possible routes. It's great for exploration due to all he little hiding spots and holes one can find along the wall, which are home groupers, stonefish, lionfish, moray eels and even turtles! Lot's of porcupine sea urchins can be found here, as well as the occasional lobster. This spot usually has the clearest viability out of all other dive sites. The two complete different routs possible for this dive are full of macro underwater life.
Depths are between 10m-13m, the shallowest part of the wall being at 5m, perfect for our safety stop.
This dive is great for underwater photography.
Access : Boat
Required certification : Open Water
The Old Port
The old port is about 8min from our base. Long time ago, this place use to be one of the most important ports of the island, part of Ancient Hersonissos. This divesite is perhaps the most unique dive Crete has to offer, especially interesting for history lovers, as some traces of very old activities can still be seen here today. Join this beautiful dive to uncover the secrets of the place.
A very good combination of diving and history with depths around 10 and 12 meters.
Good levels of buoyancy control are required for this dive.
Access : Boat
Required certification : Open Water
Grouper's Fields
One of our deeper divespots and just 3 minutes by boat from our base, you will find a beautiful dive in a typically Mediterranean landscape. Despite its appearance of a flat reef, there are many smalls holes with surprises hiding inside! You may encounters huge groupers living in the area, lobsters, lionfish, moray eels, big feather duster worms, etc. Bring your torch with you to uncover everything lurking bellow!
Generally clear waters with visibility up to 20 m. Maximum diving depth of between 18 to 20 meters.
Access : Boat
Required certification : Advanced Open Water
Our special boat dive:
This dive is scheduled upon request and depending weather conditions.
Messerschmitt 109 - The Airplane
Special Boat Dive
Beautiful wreck diving on a Messerchmidt 109-D WWII single-seater fighter aircraft. Laying upside down, the fuselage is very well maintained with the whole body, the machine gun, and bullet impacts are still visible. One of the landing tires still has air inside!
The tail of the plane is broken apart and can be seen a few meters from the plane. It's a small airplane, but it's historical significance is very important, as the Messerschmitt aircrafts used the backbone of the Luftwaffe.
Cretans resisted bravely during WWII, we encourage you to read about the battle of Crete to find out more about the brave locals. The invasion of Crete was the first large-scale airborne assault and the first time an entire division was dropped from the air.
The dive is quite challenging, with a 25m deep blue decent, located unprotected outside the bay. Suitable only for experienced divers and only when weather conditions allow it.
Access : Boat
The access to the site depends a lot on the conditions of deep-sea diving, the winds and the weather. This is the only divesite outside the protection of the bay.
Required certification : Advanced Open Water
Requirement of at least 30 logged dives and a recent dive with us, or logged within the last 3 months
Additional charge: +10€ on the normal dive price and on dive packages