Amorgos

Amorgos is a place to admire sea life and soft coral and is one of the best dive sites in Greece. Featured in Luc Bresson’s cult 1988 film The Big Blue, the beautiful island of Amorgos in the Cyclades is the place to experience the thrill of free-diving. There are dive operations in both of the island’s ports — Katapola and Aegiali — to assist you in exploring these reef and shipwrecked-filled seas, blessed with incredible water visibility and sea life including barracuda, damselfish and tuna.

One of the best dive sites can be accessed off Agios Pavlos Beach. Here, the Nikouria’s Cavern is decorated with sponges and soft coral in all the shades of the paint box and provides a habitat for spiral worms and other fascinating micro marine life. It’s an hour’s boat ride from Amorgos to the island of Kinaros to dive the wreck of the cargo ship Manina 3, which sunk in 1981. Still partly visible above the water, the ship’s top deck is at a maximum depth of 50ft and the wreck has become an artificial reef.

Location: Cyclades Islands