Kap Kamenjak Caves

Getting there is most of the commitment. The transfer from the Orca diving centre runs close to 45 minutes each way, so this is dived as a trip in its own right rather than squeezed in beside a morning on the house reef. What the journey buys is a shallow, unhurried dive at the southern tip of Istria, inside a protected nature park.

The caves themselves sit between 3 and 8 metres, shallow enough that gas consumption stops being the limiting factor, and the deepest ground on the site is at 18 metres. That combination makes for a long dive: work the openings first, drop to the rock below them, and spend the end of the dive back up shallow where the caves are.