DIVING IN CYPRUS  
 

Transdivers Dive Centre takes advantage of the excellent conditions Cyprus offers for all year round diving. With average high season water temperatures of 28°C, beginners and experienced divers find the warm, crystal clear waters ideal for both learning and diving.

With sea temperatures ranging from 16 degrees Celsius in January, 21 in May, 28 in August and 24 in October, Cyprus has become a popular diving location in the Mediterranean Sea.

There are no tides or dangerous currents and the waters are crystal clear with visibility reaching 30-40 meters.


On the south east point of Cyprus (Cape Gkreko) you will find some of the island's most popular diving locations, with a variety of caves and reefs ranging from 10 to 40 meters. This is an ideal place for beginners as well as for experienced divers.

 

There is a wide variety of marine life such as, moray eels, bream, grouper, wrasse, red mullet, soldier fish, fan worms and spirographs. You may also come across ancient stone anchors and amphora's dating back to 400 BC, please note that removal of historical objects is forbidden.

 

 

 

Facts about the Zenobia Wreck :
The Zenobia was a roll-on, roll-off (Ro-Ro) ferry carrying trucks. More than 100 of these were still shackled in place when she went down. A monster displacing more than 10,000 tones, and not unlike the familiar vessels that ply the route between Dover and Calais, the wreck is more than 178m in length, and now lying on its starboard side. Easy access from the marina at Larnaka makes this an outstandingly good dive and it is still possible to sit in the cabs of some of the trucks and also recognise the remains of some of their cargos. There are Volvos and DAFs, Scanias and Mercs. With a maximum depth of 42m to the sandy seabed, the top rail of the wreck is at 18m's. This provides an ideal range of dives from the newly qualified to the very experienced wreck penetration teckie-diver.

Divers should not swim along the undersides of vehicles, as they can weigh in at more than 40 tones and are held in place by chains that are gradually losing their strength. All the windows of the main superstructure have been broken for some years, since two divers were trapped inside. Even though this has added to diver safety, divers are advised not to enter the wreck unaccompanied, because much of the internal partitioning has collapsed.

Access to the dive: Dependant upon experience.
Although the dive on this wreck is max 40 mtrs, it is possible to make a shallower dive.