Greece – Ionian Islands
The Ionian islands run down Greece's western coast, and their limestone shores hide an unusual number of sea caves. On Zakynthos the Keri and Marathia coast has swim-through caves with milky sulphur water, an underwater arch and a turtle-nesting islet, Marathonisi, inside the National Marine Park. Paxos has big caverns on its west coast and a long cave inside the islet of Mongonisi. Corfu's north-west and north-east shores offer walls, caves and two wrecks near Nissaki. Lefkada has the drift and wall dives off Cape Ducato, and around Fiskardo in northern Kefalonia a local centre dives caves such as The Temple, a cliff drop-off and a 50 m barge wreck. Greek law now allows diving practically everywhere with a licensed centre, but wrecks over 50 years old, protected areas and archaeological zones are tightly controlled.
Dive sites
- Alexander's Cave
- Arc de Triumph (The Arch)
- Arch of the Temple
- Blue Eye (Swiss Cheese)
- Blue Pot
- Butterfly Cave
- Canyon (Vassiliki)
- Captain John's Wreck (Nissaki)
- Christina ferry wreck (Myrtos, Kefalonia)
- City of Piraeus ferry wreck (Nissaki)
- Ducates Cave and deep wall
- Elephant Reef
- Emblissi (Fiskardo)
- Kapareli reef and caves
- Keri Caves
- Kolovri Island (Odysseus Rock)
- Light House (Cape Ducato)
- Marathia Caves
- Marathonisi (Turtle Island)
- Monastery (Paleokastritsa)
- Nissaki – The Wall
- Octopus Reef
- Pelouzo Island reef
- Polis Bay (Ithaca)
- Skala (Kapros) archaeological site
- Skeloudi Island (Bobby Rock)
- Space Cave
- Submarine Cave (Mongonisi)
- Sunday Cave
- The Barge (Fiskardo)
- The Catacombs (Fiskardo)
- The Cliff (Fiskardo)
- The Cyclops (Ithaca)
- The Secret of Venus (Fiskardo)
- The Temple (Fiskardo)
- Two Columns
- Vassilis Cavern
- White Reef