Limassol (Dive Sites)

Advantages: Great dive school and great sites to visit
Disadvantages: Limassol is not the nicest area in Cyprus

Prior to arriving in Limassol my husband and I starting trawling the net for diving schools in the Limassol area and after communicating by e-mail with several of them we decided to book up with Aloha Divers. They told us that when we arrived we could call them and they'd come and pick us up from our hotel but we managed to find them quite easily ourselves. They are situated in the tourist area of Potamos Yermasoyias on the main road, beside the ...
...variety of dives off the Limassol coast. Most of them are quite shallow making them ideal for inexperienced divers. All the dives we did were boat dives and it took us approximately half an hour to arrive at the sites. Aloha offer about 12 different dives in all (which can be checked out at their site - www.alohadivers.com) but, unfortunately, we didn't get to visit them all due to the American crisis which happened 2 days after we arrived. This ... Read review

Advantages: Warm waters and plenty of interest.
Disadvantages: Popeye Diving Centre was an absolute joke.

The Popeye Diving Centre near Limasol is a disaster waiting to happen. I booked a dive with them one Christmas and was initially impressed when they picked me up from the hotel and took me to this all glass dive centre on a nearby harbour. That impression didn't last long. There were two of us diving and since I was an instructor the proprietor decided that he didn't need to dive. He would take us to Amathus Bay, drop us over the site, and I would ...
...Next came the gear, I fitted the regulator and turned the bottle on, it read half full. He gave me another bottle - half full, and another. He concluded that the bottles were ok but the needle was sticking on the contents gauge. Reluctantly (and foolishly) I agreed to use it and away we went. Within a few minutes the contents needle was down to 80 bar and after 12 minutes I was down to 50 bar and had to end the dive - my buddy had got the only full ... Read review

Advantages: read op
Disadvantages: read op

Four years ago I visited Cypress and I took part in a dive. I first started off in the pool and because I liked it so much I decided to make a visit to the sea. It was great, I got to feed the fish with bread and they would bite my fingers. So two days after that I decided to go again, once again it was amazing. So I went again, again and again. Eventually I became quite good so I would be able to go off by myself while the group would stay together. ... Read review