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Mndiv

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Hey everyone!

Me and my dad are travelling to Greece this summer and we will have several days available for diving!:) I am interested in some input on what dive sites to visit both in the Athens area and among the Greek islands. Has anyone been diving there? Any suggestions? We're interested in all types of dives!

As of right now we are AOW certified. This spring, being from Minnesota, we're getting drysuit certified as well, although I'm hoping we won't need drysuits:D

Thanks in advance!
 
Well I have some recommendations for places to go in the islands in the south eastern Aegean Kalymnos and Rhodes are my favorites. It has been too long since I was there last to recommend any specific dive shops. Kalymnos is home to the sponge divers they hold an annual skandalo petra diving festival. an early form of free diving for sponges.
This is a good video of Kalymnos the climate is like southern California hot and dry.
Kalymnos - ????????, Greece - YouTube Rhodes has lots of great surface interval sights Castles Temples Casinos it is more cosmopolitan.
 
Try in Chorto (also spelled Horto), in the Pelion peninsula. I had a great time and great experience last July there. I can highly recommend Paris (www.divingpelion.gr); great fun guy both above and under water :) More than 25 kinds of fish, nice warm water, and well within the AOW capabilities.

Have fun!
 
If you are interested in doing some diving around Athens, i'd recommend to do some diving in Makronisos. Its a place near Athens and there are diving centers that go there on daily excursions. Really interesting stuff.
As for the islands, if you try Pilio there are some islands (Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonisos) that you can visit nearby by taking a ferry from Volos.
There is some sort of diving in every island that you might visit.
 
Hello there!

We are based in Athens and we provide Liveaboard scuba trips in the Saronic gulf and central and southern Cyclades. Please, check our website and FB page for details. Should you need more info, please send us an email

Best regards,
The Scubalife.gr Team
 
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I was there many years ago when the Antiquities Law prevented us from SCUBA diving so I just free dove. In most of the places I visited on the islands there were no SCUBA shops back then, although that has changed. I can't spedak for areas close to Athens, but I really loved my week-long stays on Rhodos and Crete. Keep in mind that the Mediterranean has been fishing for millenia and does not have a very vibrant fish fauna.
 
I was there many years ago when the Antiquities Law prevented us from SCUBA diving so I just free dove. In most of the places I visited on the islands there were no SCUBA shops back then, although that has changed.

Generally Greece is little known as a diving destination. Part of this reason is the legislation that existed until 2005.This kept diving restricted on a large scale and limited Greece’s ability to market itself as a premiere diving destination.

This has now all changed.

Undoubtedly, Greece could not be compared to the Red Sea or other tropical water destinations in terms of marine life abundance however there are spots and islands in the Aegean that dictate the opposite. A distinguished trait Greece and the Aegean sea has to offer is the unique underwater topography and the nice sea water conditions along with the Aegean breeze and landscape.
 
We are going to the Island of Ikaria which was not chosen as a dive location. I would like to know if anyone has been there to either snorkel, free-dive or scuba. I have limited expectations of the med in Greece but would like to try to see something. Am AOW certified. Thanks
 
I have snorkeled a number of places in the mediterranean include Greece, Yugoslavia, Spain, Crete, Sardinia. Generally you snorkel close to shore. water is pretty clear. Lots of life but not very colorful. Only place I have dived is up by the penninsula that sticks down from
Thessaloniki. They were shore dives. Some octopii, nudibranches, fish, etc. Decent viz.
 

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