Your Guide to Diving Mediterranean
including France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Croatia

Mediterranean Seasonal Dive Planner

The season for calmer water is May through to September when air temperatures can get very hot (100°F/37°C) yet the water below the thermocline can stay at 57°F (14°C) so Mediterranean divers will be seen wearing thicker wetsuits (or even drysuits) than you would expect.

Diving Mediterranean Reader Reports and Feature Articles

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Latest Reader Reports from Mediterranean from the serious divers who read Undercurrent All Reader Reports from Mediterranean	All 10,000+ Reports
DiveWise/Westin Dragonara Report in Mediterranean/Malta "Malta is beige" filed Sep 8, 2025 by Bobby Munno (Experience: Over 1000 dives, 26 reports, Sr. Contributor )
Malta is beige, above and below the surface. The predominant construction material on Malta is the native limestone. The centuries-ol... ... Read more
Scubaturtles Report in Mediterranean/Near Pylos, Greece "Fun dives on a local island" filed Aug 27, 2025 by Ralph Larson (Experience: Over 1000 dives)
Andreus and Silvia run Scubaturtles in Marapotholi, Greece, not far north of Pylos on the west coast of the Peleponnese. Their dives s... ... Read more
Punta Campanella Diving Center/None Report in Mediterranean/Sorrento, Italy "Great Diving near the Amalfi Coast of Italy" filed Aug 18, 2025 by Robert H Pecoraro Jr (Experience: Over 1000 dives, 20 reports, Sr. Contributor )
We did around 10 dives with Punta Campanella Diving Center, over the course of a week. The first four days of diving were excellent, as... ... Read more
Capo Galera Diving Center/Capo Galera Accommodations Report in Mediterranean/Sardinia "very Nice Diving Center in Beautiful Sardinia" filed Aug 18, 2025 by Robert H Pecoraro Jr (Experience: Over 1000 dives, 20 reports, Sr. Contributor )
We spent around 10 days diving with Capo Galera Diving Center. Although we did not stay at the resort, the accommodations looked very ... ... Read more
Atlantis Dive Centre Report in Mediterranean/Italy/Sicily "Good diving in Zingaro Nature Reserve, from Castellammare del Golfo" filed Jun 1, 2025 by Michael Schoenbaum (Experience: 101-250 dives, 6 reports, Reviewer )
I did a 2-tank boat dive near the end of a 2-week non-diving trip to Sicily. I reached out to the shop a few days in advance via WhatsA... ... Read more

Editor's Book Picks for Scuba Diving Mediterranean
including France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Cyprus, Croatia

The books below are my favorites about diving in this part of the world All books are available at a significant discount from Amazon.com; just follow the links. -- BD

Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide
by Gerald R. Allen, Roger Steene.

I was trying to pack light for a change. Surely the Solomon Sea would have good identification books aboard. Not so; the only book on the boat belonged to a fellow passenger. It was one that I had not seen before, the Indo-Pacific Coral Reef Field Guide, by two of the best fish guys around, Gerry Allen and Roger Steene. The problem was this fellow passenger kept it in a plastic baggie most of the trip and I had to beg to see it. Great book, good traveling size, and it covers everything from fish, shells, marine plants, mammals, corals, and invertebrates to sea birds and more. Now I've got my own, and it won't do you any good to beg me to borrow it. This is one of two books that I will not travel to the Pacific without. Good for travel to the Red Sea, East Africa, Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives, Andaman Sea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Hawaii, it has 1,800 color illustrations in a 6x8 1/2 paperback format with 378 pages. $39.95.

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