Saturday June 10, 2006 – The Zen

Sorry for the delay on updating you on our lives in Cyprus, but we’ve had a couple nice weekends “on the island.” Now that it has warmed up we decided to take advantage of our 10 minute walk to the Mediterranean location and continue our scuba diving training with an advanced scuba diver certification with Aloha Divers. It had been two years since we had even glanced at scuba equipment, but all it took was four dives (night, wreck/deep, navigation, and search and recovery dives), reading a scuba textbook, and doing some knowledge reviews.

Although there isn’t really any aquatic life anywhere around Limassol (seriously only saw a lobster or two and a few relatively unexciting fish), the highlight of Cyprus diving is a 175 meter long ferry boat that sank 25 years ago. The Zenobia lies only about a 15 minute boat trip from Larnaca Bay (an hour away from Limassol) at a depth of 42 meters (at its lowest point) and is considered one of the top 5 wreck dives in the world. We went down to 30 meters on our two Saturday dives on the wreck and were amazed at the size of it – just HUGE. The Zenobia sank on its maiden voyage carrying semi trucks which are now visible spilling from the hull onto the sea floor. On our second dive we even were led through a large doorway into the bridge of the wreck by our instructor, Mark.

If you are interested, here are a few more photos from the dive...

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