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 — 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.
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