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North Cyprus - Sea Life
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Deep Blue
Welcome to the fascinating and unique underwater world of North Cyprus, where you can enjoy one of the longest diving seasons in the Mediterranean. You will find crystal-clear, unpolluted water where the marine life is still undisturbed. Underwater visibility can be more than 30 meters. Down in deep and warm blue you will meet stringrays, amber jacks, scorpions, bream, grouper, cockoo, wrasse and now and then a sea turtle. The underwater terrain is futhermore an ideal place for octopus and moray eel, colorful sponges, soft corals, as well as treasures from ancient times.
- The deep blue hides a wide mix of fish, corals, wrecks and history.
- You can choose from about twenty diving sites east and west of Kyrenia as well as many other diving safaris.
- You can experience wreck diving including the site where in 1960's one of the worlds oldest shipwrecks found, dating from the time of Alexander the Great.
- You will be accompanied by prefessionel divers who will do everything to give you an unforgettable diving holiday.
" We dive slowly along the reef and what we find so remarkable compared with diving sites we have visited in the Med is the marine life. Fish, coral and marine life... 28 meter below the surface the light is striking, we can still see the surface buoy clearly through the simmering clear water. The sites here are neither ruined by too many divers nor out fished. The Dive Centers tell us that they have an agreement with the fishermen in Kyrenia to live the waters around the diving sites in peaces. Summing up our week we are convinced that North Cyprus will be a new eldorado for experienced divers as well as beginners, with a diving season from April to December. Kyrenia town and the island's long history is another asset making the trip interesting also for non-diving companions. "
Sea Turtles
Caretta caretta & Chelonia mydas. For about one hundred million years, our waters have been visited by the green (Chelonia mydas) and the logger-head (Caretta carettas) turtles. The green turtle only nests in Cyprus and southest Turkey and sometimes in Israel. These fascinating creatures comes ashore on the deserted beaches of North Cyprus between May and August no nest and Alagadi Beach is classified as a special protected area. After sunset, when it is dark, the adult females, sometimes with a carapace of more than 00 cm long, make their way up the beach to find a suitable nesting place. There, they lay between 65 and 10 eggs, depending on the species. This can be repeated three to five times for each, 10-15 days apart. When the nesting is done, the exhausted female returns to the sea. She will perhaps reappear on the same beach again a couple of years later.Up to thirty per cent of all Green Turtles nest on the coastline of North Cyprus. Group of Ecologists and students have been abserving and helping to protect these rare animals from extinction for a number of years. Visitors are welcome to observe this exciting experience.
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