Cavtat & Konavle

Diving here runs by small boat to the islets around the bay and to the wreck sites off its entrance. At Mrkanac the boat anchors on a small plateau beside the rock’s southern cape, and the dive follows a large canyon between the cape and a pinnacle that cannot be seen from the surface. The archaeological sites work differently: individual diving on them is forbidden in Croatia, and Epidaurum holds the only concession from the Croatian Ministry of Culture to take visitors to the amphora wreck, so those dives are always guided.

Numerous remains of sunken ships lie around Cavtat, and they set the character of the diving: cargoes of amphorae and storage jars spread over the seabed, alongside the wreckage of a small warship from the time of Napoleon, where 6 iron cannons, 2 anchors, cannonballs and rifles still lie. Around the islets of Mrkan, Bobara and Supetar the terrain changes to underwater walls that reach 100 m and to caves. Morays and other small fish hide between the amphorae.

The wreck sites suit divers comfortable on a guided dive near 30 m, since the main wrecks all lie at 25 m or deeper, and the whole dolia field on the Pythos Site can be toured in about ten minutes at most. The deeper ground around Bobara asks for more experience: two rock formations out in the blue beyond its wall are for very experienced divers only, while less experienced groups take the canyon and the shallower part of the wall towards the Ražnjić rock.