Reef Galiola

Reef Galiola is a strange, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It is one of the best diving sites in Montenegro. It's a reef in the shape of a pyramid, as the name suggests. It has two vertical tunnels interwoven into it, and the sun's rays tint the entire atmosphere around the reef blue. It's almost surreal, except that it's true. What else may add to the intrigue? There's also a World War I-era underwater mine. There is also a wealth of aquatic life in this area, with various fish, eels, and other creatures. This dive is one of a kind and something you should do while you're there.

The fabled Galiola, a sea-surrounded rock, stretches east-west. It is approximately 150 meters long but only 50 meters wide. A lighthouse was built in the middle of the rock to warn seafarers of its presence. You anchor at a depth of 12 meters around 100 meters from the coast, then dive along the anchor rope to the 15-meter edge of the wall. The greatest diving depth is around 40 meters. Congers, scorpion fish, bigger amberjack shoals, uncountable shoals of damsel fish, white sea breams, sardins, salemas, gilthead sea breams, and various sea slug species can all be spotted. Stony corals, bryozoans, and sponges have colonized the holes and fissures.

Best time: May-September
Location: near Budva, Montenegro