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One might think that the red sea or tropical waters are the only places worth diving in the world, yet the Mediterranean sea gathers so many diverse and rich scenes of underwater landscapes and marine life that it offers the lucky spectator an extraordinary feeling of flying in weightless environment with all the colourful marine life around him.
The coastal waters of Crete are probably the most clean of the Mediterranean.
Visibility reaches up to 40m during summer months and water temperature up to 28.C. The three main habitats of Crete’s coastal waters are: rocky (with extraordinary caverns, gorges and caves), eelgrass beds (Posidonia) and sandy underwater beaches.
Crete is an ideal place to learn diving due to the perfect underwater conditions. Its micro life is very rich and the mediterranean species of fish various.
The presence of antiquities make it an unforgettable destination. The greek diving law has evolved recently to let people explore more dive sites. In our area (southeast Crete), all along the coast there are many dive sites with access from the shore (Peristeras, Psaropoula, Kakki Skala, Agia Fotia island, Achlia...).
There are still many underwater places yet unexplored...
For more information, please contact us directly.
Scuba Dream Diving Centre
Peristeras, Ierapetra 72200
Crete, Greece
Tel: +30 6944 142292
www.scubadream.gr
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The present Metropolis of Ierapetra and Siteia with its seat in the city of Ierapetra occupies the southern and eastern part of the county of Lasithi and includes the former provinces of Ierapetra and Siteia as well as the communities of Kalo Chorio of Merambellou and Kato (Lower) Symi of Viannos. The Metropolis originated from the union of the Diocese of Ierapetra, which is one of the oldest dioceses of Crete with its bishop already participating in the Synod of Sardica in AD 343, and the Diocese of Siteia which was founded already from the 7th or 8th centuries. The Diocese of Ierapetra included the provinces of Merambellou, Lasithi, and Viannos. However, with the creation of the Diocese of Petra which appears already in the 10th century, the Diocese of Ierapetra was named Ieras while a part of its district was detached to be incorporated into that of Petra. The Dioceses of Ierapetra and Siteia were consolidated in the 19th century, initially with the name Ierositeia, while from 1962, they are known as the Metropolis of Ierapetra and Siteia. In the middle Byzantine period, the cathedral church of Ierapetra was the church of the All-Holy Virgin of the Seven Domes, in the settlement of Episkopi, while it seems that the church of the All-Holy Virgin in Apano (Upper) Episkopi and the church of the Holy Apostles in Kato (Lower) Episkopi were used alternately as the cathedral churches of the Diocese of Siteia.
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