Green Bay

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.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Easy conditions, statue cluster, octopus and turtle possibilities on a training dive

التضاريس: Sand and seagrass patches between low rock fingers, with a small cluster of placed statues on the sand

نقطة الدخول: Gentle beach-and-rock entry in Protaras with easy conditions most of the year; busiest bay in southeast Cyprus for courses.

المخاطر: Little beyond summer swimmer traffic and sun.

الحفاظ على البيئة البحرية: Seagrass is nursery habitat — fins up over the meadows, and no pursuing the turtles that visit them.