I dove the Zenobia and can't wait to go back and continue diving the other decks! Such a cool penetration dive seeing everything abandoned on the ship when it sunk, and even swimming outside the ship was awesome because of the scale of it
I've dived the Zenobia, its amazing, such a cool experience. Last time I was there the fish had been fed sausages.. so, we were advised to keep our fingers in a fist, just in case they were feeling hungry. There's also a relaxing but busy dive site near Ayia Napa, I think its called green bay, its shallow maybe 8m or something. Tonnes of life, turtles, some statues and things. It can be snorkelled or dived, but its a great chill dive just to see some life. But very busy owing to it being shallow and sheltered. Cyprus is a wonderful place to dive and reasonably warm even when other places are starting to cool down, owing to it being quite southern. Its a good trip for us europe based divers as its not too expensive to get to.
Hi Mark, we stayed in Limassol in June and I dived the Zenobia with Crest dive who are based in Limassol. It’s a cracking trip and as an AOW diver I was able to dive both the outside of the wreck as well as penetrate inside. A huge wreck with lots of life. An abundance of Lion fish is immediately obvious but we also saw a turtle at 32m when diving through the RoRo doors. Large grouper cruise around along with big shoals of damsel fish and sea bream. An excellent trip where multiple dives are required to properly explore! I made a video of the trip if interested! th-cam.com/video/I0j8QDMeTMI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=o5kvSluzdjpRplTT There is also great snorkelling at the Roman port at Amathous which is a marine protected area and has some rich Seagrass beds. As you might expect this also draws in the turtles along with nudibranch and other marine life. Well worth a visit.
I dove the Zenobia and can't wait to go back and continue diving the other decks! Such a cool penetration dive seeing everything abandoned on the ship when it sunk, and even swimming outside the ship was awesome because of the scale of it
I've dived the Zenobia, its amazing, such a cool experience. Last time I was there the fish had been fed sausages.. so, we were advised to keep our fingers in a fist, just in case they were feeling hungry. There's also a relaxing but busy dive site near Ayia Napa, I think its called green bay, its shallow maybe 8m or something. Tonnes of life, turtles, some statues and things. It can be snorkelled or dived, but its a great chill dive just to see some life. But very busy owing to it being shallow and sheltered.
Cyprus is a wonderful place to dive and reasonably warm even when other places are starting to cool down, owing to it being quite southern. Its a good trip for us europe based divers as its not too expensive to get to.
Hi Mark, we stayed in Limassol in June and I dived the Zenobia with Crest dive who are based in Limassol. It’s a cracking trip and as an AOW diver I was able to dive both the outside of the wreck as well as penetrate inside. A huge wreck with lots of life. An abundance of Lion fish is immediately obvious but we also saw a turtle at 32m when diving through the RoRo doors. Large grouper cruise around along with big shoals of damsel fish and sea bream. An excellent trip where multiple dives are required to properly explore! I made a video of the trip if interested! th-cam.com/video/I0j8QDMeTMI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=o5kvSluzdjpRplTT
There is also great snorkelling at the Roman port at Amathous which is a marine protected area and has some rich Seagrass beds. As you might expect this also draws in the turtles along with nudibranch and other marine life. Well worth a visit.