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.