Greece is a well known tourism destination worldwide. It is recognized as one of the top 10 tourism brand names. Its multi-faceted tourism personality encompasses many tourism special interest forms and activities, including diving. Recreational diving is expanding rapidly in the recent years. Services and dive locations can really surprise both the experienced as well as the novice diver, to create an unforgettable diving experience. Greece is Europe's most "island nation" with more than 3000 islands and islets, spread over three parts of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: the Ionian Sea (part of the Adriatic) in the West, the Sea of Crete in the South and the well known Aegean Sea in the East. Cultural and natural wonders and over 5000 years of history, have attracted to Greece millions of visitors, particularly over the last 50 years and continue to bring-in tourists from all corners of the world. The mild Mediterranean climate, the winding coastline and the beaches , have characterized the holiday periods both in the islands and on the mainland. Present day Greece can satisfy even the most demanding traveler-tourist. There are excellent services and facilities, cosmopolitan and well known as Mykonos, Rhodes, Crete and out of the ordinary picturesque locations and islands as Skiathos, filming location for Mamma Mia, and Kefalonia, filming location For Captain Corelli;s Mandolin. You can enjoy environmentally pure areas and a coastal zone island, where historic and religious monuments, traditions and natural resources abound.

DIVING IS PART OF GREEK LIFE SINCE THE ANCIENT TIME In the course of the battle at Thermopylae in 480 b.C., the Greek Spartan leader Leonidas sent a special corps of divers on a mission to kidnap the Persian Emperor from his headquarters; Alexander the Great is reported to have dived using a crystal bell, to inspect ships on his fleet; in the works of the Philosopher Aristotle there are distinct references to sponge gathering by means of free diving. Since the 19th century, sponge divers from Kalymnos And Symi islands have carried their unique techniques all over the world, including Tamba Florida U.S.A. The first officially reported free dive is by STATHIS HADZIS, a diver from Symi island, who on 16 July 1913, dived to a depth of 88m. To successfully retrieve the anchor of the Italian warship "Regina Margherita", as reported in the ship's log book.