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Diving CroatiaCroatia's coastline is on the Adriatic Sea, the part of the Mediterranean sandwiched between Italy and the former Yugoslavia. Croatia has 66 inhabited islands and much of the best diving is off these. Croatia Dive Sites • Croatia Diving Operators • Books to Take to Croatia • Your Comments
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"A stunning wall dive which gave me vertigo the first time I dived it. The viz is excellent and the corals are stunning.
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"This is a lovely wreck which is fully intact and upright standing in 48m. You can still see the cargo of explosives on board.
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"Tremendous wall, down to 50 meters, colourful sponges and gorgonia fans, snappers, lobsters, octopuses
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"Superb wreck dive in crystal clear Adriatic at 10-15 m. Novice to any level can enjoy this one. Lovely walls in the vicinity with fantastic colours.
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Podgora is a busy tourist town, one and a half hour's drive down the coast from Split. Zuc Kamen is a short boat ride away from Podgora, about 300 m off shore. The water is cold, with thermoclines at 10 and 13 m. The dive comprises two strips of rocky outcrops, one at 9 m and one at 15 m. On this dive you can see a Pinna nobilis, the rare giant mussel which is is found only in the Mediterranean Sea. This is one of the largest bivalves in the world, growing to 120 cm long. It sticks up out of the sea bed so is easily seen when diving, once you know what to look for.
Fresh-water springs emerge from the sea floor on this dive - very interesting. Loads of pretty blue nudibranchs - Facelina auriculata (previously known as Facelina coronata), feather stars, octopus. Down to a sandy bed at 5 m then down a slope to a gap in rocks and a cave entrance. Further down there is a larger cave at 25 m. The cave is a resurgance (fresh water upwelling) in wet weather. After the cave you can follow the slope up and across to a series of resurgances. The water is cold and very blurry where the salt and fresh water mix. A good, if cold, dive.
"Vrulja is an exciting dive side with a cave in 30m depth and a nice blue until purple vegetation at the wall around the cave. Even for trimix divers is that a good dive site 100m deep at the end of the canyons. Canyons are starting on 30m with a pinnacle and on 50m you can see some school of hake fishes from around 50 animals.
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"Purple bay consists of four drop-offs, each of them a separate dive site. The rough walls with their many holes and notches are home to a wide variety of marine plants and animals, such as scorpionfish, sea fans, gold sponges and many more. If you're lucky you can even see the spotted shark there, which is very impressive with its length of approximately 1.20 m. This dive sites are very good for rebreather and nitrox diver
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"In the north of the island Hvar, right in front of a stony reef with many small caves, a long field with old amphoras stretches along depths of 12m to 28m. The amphoras belonged to a Greek ship that ran aground and lost its cargo. Now they offer shelter to many fish. The neighboring seagrass-fields on the other hand are home to many sea-slugs.
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FUN DIVING Ltd is Located on Murter, an island connected by a bridge to the mainland North of Split.
Croatia Divers "5 star PADI IDC center, dive course packages, hotels, apartments and 35 fantastic dive sites on Korcula island." Open from Easter until October. Dutch and English managed.
Dive Centre Pongo "I have been diving with Pongo for the last 2 years and this is a fantastic small and friendly dive outfit. It is especially good for small groups and lone travellers. The accommodation was all inclusive courtesy of Pongo. Self catering in superb apartments overlooking the bay. There are no single supplements for lone travellers."
ISSA Diving Center
Diving safaries throughout the Adriatic Sea, Croatian coast. Maximum 16 divers on board. Konkordia
Neptun Diving Center
Krk Island
Diving Center Poseidon
Podgora is a busy tourist town on the mainland, one and a half hour's drive down the coast from Split. Branimirova obala 109
Tucepi is on the mainland, opposite Brac island and just up from Podgora. At the harbour of Tucepi
Diving Center Blue Planet
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace Masarykov put 20 20 000 Dubrovnik Croatia Tel: +385 (0)91/ 899 0973 E-mail: info@blueplanet-diving.com
Kornati d.o.o. Motor yacht Kamelija is 27 meters long with three decks and seven cabins.
German and Croatian managed. Offer apartments above the dive centre, good for families with children. Dive around Solta and the surrounding islands.
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