Cyprus – Paphos & Limassol

The south-west of the Republic of Cyprus offers easy, warm-water diving on rocky reefs, caves and wrecks. Off Paphos, boats reach the Achilleas wreck (sunk 1975), the Vera K freighter lying in the crater of its 1974 demolition and the Amphorae Caves, while shore divers use Amphitheatre, Cynthiana and Airport Reef. West of Paphos the Edro III cargo ship, wrecked in 2011, sits on the rocks at the Sea Caves of Peyia, and the Manijin islet nearby has a collapsed-roof bowl and a blowhole. Further north the Akamas peninsula and Latchi give the Blue Lagoon, Kakoskali reef and the walls of Photiades and Mazaki island. East of Paphos the Limassol coast has the Lady Thetis and Costandis wrecks, sunk in February 2014 as an artificial reef, the Amathunta concrete pyramids and, near Pissouri, the deep wall and caves of Jubilee Shoals. The Zenobia and the other Larnaca wrecks, and the sites of the Turkish-occupied north, are not part of this region.

Tauchplätze

• Achilleas Wreck
• Airport Reef
• Akrotiri Fish Reserve (Seal Garden, Shark's Cove, Tombs)
• Amathunta Pyramids (artificial reef)
• Amphitheatre (Coral Bay)
• Amphitheatre Bay (Latchi)
• Amphorae Caves
• Aphrodite's Rock & Aphrodite Island
• Blue Lagoon
• Costandis Wreck
• Cynthiana
• EDRO III Wreck
• Jubilee Shoals
• Kakoskali Reef
• Laboe Wreck
• Lady Thetis Wreck
• Manijin Island
• Mazaki Island
• Photiades Wall
• The Shoals (Demetrios II wreck)
• Three Stars Wreck (Akrotiri)
• Vera K Wreck