Dive Sites

Halkidiki - The Secret Paradice of Greece

Azure Diving Center

Our diving locations in Halkidiki offer an excellent variety for divers to enjoy the underwater world of North Greece, browse all our diving sites in Halkidiki.

  • "Erica" Cave

    Experience level: All level
    Maximum depth: 40m
    Description: It is an open cavern with an entrance at 12 meters depth. It extends approximately 40 meters long and 10 meters wide.

    Outside the entrance of the cave, the maximum depth reaches 45 meters.
    The waters are crystal clear with a variety of underwater flora and fauna.
    The cave serves as a sanctuary for the birth of crustaceans (shrimps, crayfish, lobsters, and many others).

    Amidst the cavern’s rock formations, we will meet sardines, groupers, moray eels, rockfish, scorpionfish, and many other species of the Mediterranean.

  • Kelyfos Island

    Experience level: All level
    Maximum depth: 60m
    Description: It is an uninhabited island, opposite Neos Marmaras, called Kelyfos. It is also known as “turtle” due to its shape.

    There are several diving spots, 2 of them are:
    “The island”, a rock near Kelyfos starts at a depth of -3m and ends at -60m. Around this rock, the waters are crystal clear with a variety of underwater flora and fauna, including nudibranchs

    “Sign” is a part of a peninsula that starts at a depth of -8m and ends at -50m. It’s an impressive rock wall, with great visibility and various underwater flora and fauna. There is a permanent light current

  • Underwater cave Kaminada (chimney)

    Experience Level: All level
    Maximum depth: 60m
    It is located in the Kartalia area.

    We begin the dive at -8m and gradually deepen. The maximum depth of the site reaches up to 60m
    As we make our way back to the safety stop area, at a 16-meter depth, we encounter an opening in the rock wall. This is the entrance to the ‘chimney’. Divers wearing full equipment can make it through this passage, emerging at 8 meters depth.

    The dive site has a thriving marine biodiversity and is one of the first spots in the area where lionfish were spotted.

  • Marathias

    Experience level: All level
    Maximum depth: 18m

    Located on the southern tip of Sithonia, this cape has two beaches: one on the East and another on the West. Also known as Lemos Beach

    We dive on the West side, one of the most fantastic spots.

    We start from a depth of 2m and end up at -18m

  • Marathias Manitari ( Marathias Mushroom )

    Experience level: All level
    Maximum depth: 30m

    A mushroom-shaped reef, just one mile from the coast, with vibrant marine life. It’s suitable for divers of all levels and has a maximum depth of 30 meters.

  • Kartalia Drepano

    Experience level: All level
    Maximum depth: 60m

    Just next to a cliff, a menhir-shaped, 30-meter tall, and 60-meter deep rock appears. It’s an impressive dive spot, with vibrant marine life. There are two passages through the rock wall at this location: an L-shaped one, 7 meters long, and an 8-meter-long tunnel.

  • Pagona Cave

    Experience level: Advanced
    Maximum depth: 45m

    The cave entrance is at -24 meters, in a 45-meter-deep rock wall.

    The cave’s length is 25 meters and it’s full of shrimp. At this location, you can meet pelagic fish and mammals such as turtles, tuna, seals, etc.

  • Marathias Glossa (Marathias Tongue)

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 40m

    This location is special because of an underwater rock formation, starting at 18 meters, that looks like a tongue. It extends to the south, reaching 40 meters in depth.

    The dive spot harbors spirographs, shells, groupers, golden groupers, and many nudibranchs.

  • Two Towers

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 50m

    We drop anchor 10m behind the first tower, and, depending on the current, we circle the tower and pass to the second one, where from 18m the descent begins, according to the level of each diver.

    The tower is very imposing, with visibility over 20m.

    It has many groupers, lobsters, and various pelagic fish.

  • Ottoman Shipwreck

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 18m

    The ship has been cut into two pieces that are separated underwater by a pointed mass of rocks that reach a depth of half a meter from the surface. The main part of the ship is the stern and it remains almost intact, it lies at a maximum depth of 17.5 meters, sitting on its left side.

    Behind the pointed outcrop of rocks is the fore part which has been disintegrated, with its sides spread out on the seabed to a maximum depth of 5.8 meters. The ship’s mast is 45 meters long at the stern and 25 meters long at the bow.

    Stiped seabreams, sardines, phycis phycis (forkbeards), and many others live in the wreck.

  • Azapiko Nets

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 35m

    This dive site features a reef, located 300m from the coast.
    We anchor at a 5m depth

    On the outer side of the reef, we can descend to 35 meters.
    The rock is covered with old fishermen’s nets, that have become a harbor for many kinds of fish.

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  • Azapiko

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 35m

    This dive site features a reef, located 300m from the coast.
    We anchor at a 5m depth

    On the inner side of the reef, we can descend to 20 meters
    Here we will meet octopuses, stingrays, nudibranchs, seabreams, and red mullets.

  • Nemesis beach

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 35m

    We drop anchor at 7m depth.

    Following the rocks on our left, we can reach up to 40m deep. The marine flora and fauna here is very fascinating.

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  • Nemesis

    Experience level: All Level
    Maximum depth: 70m

    This location features a reef, just outside of the cape, that reaches 70 meters in depth.

    There is yellow coral, starting from 33 meters depth. Also, we will meet almost all species of the Mediterranean.

     

  • Gorgonia Kartalia deep

    Experience level: Advanced
    Maximum depth: 80m

    Description:
    At a depth of 30 meters, we swim southeast from the rock wall. An underwater mountain, full of gorgonian corals and golden groupers will appear in front of us. Its maximum depth is 80m