Scuba diving in Greece
Do you want the experience of discovering ancient walls, sunken cities, shipwrecks, caves or reefs? Maybe you enjoy underwater photography or fishing? Greece is a diver’s paradise and perfect for your next scuba diving adventure.
Greece is not known abroad for its scuba diving. Until recently, the government cautiously restricted diving due to it’s great fear of ancient artifacts and important archaelogical items being removed from underwater sites. Fortunately, the Greek government has loosened many of its regulations on scuba diving, although it is still restrictive for specialty dives like night and wreck dives.
Best scuba diving in Greece
Much of Greece’s underwater expanse is largely unexplored since recreational diving is quite new to the country. This is exciting because there are dozens of islands scattered around Greece in the Ionian and the Aegean Seas with hidden gems yet to be discovered. Diving in Corfu (and most of the Mediterranean) centers less around the abundance and variety of fish and more on interesting rock formations, swim-throughs, and exploration of wrecks. The visibility is surprisingly good (averaged around 50 ft) and octopus, squid, starfish, and fire worms are quite common. Diving centers tend to be very informal operations, with a traditional Greek approach to planning dive trips (in some cases this can be frustrating when trying to organize daily activities). The local divers are very friendly though, and make up for their lack of organizational skills with their zest for diving.
Attica
- Aqualized Dive Adventures
- Paterakis Diving Center Glyfada
- Seahorse Dive Center Athens
- Tech Diving Team Isthmia
- Athens Divers Club
- Amphibious Diving Center Athens
- Go Scuba Diving Athens
The islands of Saronikou
Cyclades islands
- Amorgos Diving
- Diving in Andros
- Diving in Mykonos
- Mykonos Dive Center
- Godive Mykonos
- Santorini Dive Center
- Aegean Dive Center Santorini
- Dive Center Volcano Santorini
- Mediterranean Dive Club Santorini
- Atlantis Oia – Diving Santorini
- Caldera Diving Santorini
- Navy’s Waterworld Santorini
- Dive in Action Santorini
- Santorini Scuba Academy
- Diving in Naxos
- Diving in Folegandros
Sporades islands
- Skiathos Diving Center
- Dolphin Diving in Skiathos
- Alonissos Seacolours Dive Center
- Skopelos Dive Center
Macedonia
The Ionian Islands
- Scuba Diving Corfu
- Achilleon Diving Center – Corfu
- Fiskardo Divers – Kefalonia
- Diving Center – Turtle Beach – Kefalonia
- Eurodivers Dive Center – Zakynthos (Zante)
- Diver’s Paradise Dive Center – Zakynthos (Zante)
North East Aegean islands
Rhodes island
Crete
- Pelagos Dive Centre, Agios Nikolaos
- Happy Divers, Agios Nikolaos
- Crete Underwater Center, Agios Nikolaos
- Diving Center Blue Dolphin Elounda
- Chania Diving Center
- Staywet – Diving center, Heraklion
- Kalypso Diving Center Crete
Pelion
Important: In most Greek islands and villages next to the sea on the Greek mainland you will find local diving clubs. Just few of them have their own website like the above listed.
