Green Bay
Depth is the range from the top of the site to its usual maximum; "recommended cert" is the mainstream-agency level operators usually ask for, not a legal rule. Currents and visibility change daily, so treat everything here as planning ranges.
Green Bay is where southeast Cyprus learns to dive, and it wears the job well. The shallow rock fingers shelter bream, damselfish and octopus; a modest group of statues placed on the sand gives students a navigation target with a smile; and the seagrass margins draw occasional green turtles grazing in from the open coast. Lionfish (handsome, invasive and increasingly numerous) hover under the ledges and give guides their standard ecology talk. It is not a destination dive, but as a confined-water classroom that still delivers real Mediterranean life, it earns its constant crowds.
The moment you come for: Easy conditions, statue cluster, octopus and turtle possibilities on a training dive
Topography: Sand and seagrass patches between low rock fingers, with a small cluster of placed statues on the sand
Entry: Gentle beach-and-rock entry in Protaras with easy conditions most of the year; busiest bay in southeast Cyprus for courses.
Know before you splash
Hazards: Little beyond summer swimmer traffic and sun.
Conservation: Seagrass is nursery habitat: fins up over the meadows, and no pursuing the turtles that visit them.
Who you'll meet
Lionfish
Green Sea Turtle
Bigfin Reef Squid
Nudibranchs
Loggerhead Turtle
"Charted here" species were listed by our editors from the sources on this page. Counts are GBIF occurrence records: observations logged within about 5 km of the charted position since 1990, matched only against the species in our catalogue. They show what has been seen there, not a promise of what you will see.
For photographers
Wide angle: ★★★☆☆ · Macro: ★★★☆☆ (editors' 1–5 rating of what this site gives each style of shooting)