Starting from Basic Fun Diving to PADI Certified Dive Master.
If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. Get your 1st scuba diving certification with the PADI Open Water Diver course – the world’s most popular and widely recognized scuba course, or continue your Education with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course!
Our intention is to provide certified divers with a unique adventure trip, an exciting and unforgettable experience!
We are the only Dive Center that is visiting all the fascinating dive sites Rethymnon has to offer.
Dive with us and enjoy a unique adventure and warm crystal clear waters that can exceed 30 meters visibility.
We deliver world-famous Greek hospitality to divers from all across the globe. Whether you’re a diving veteran or a thrill-seeking new starter, we offer a professional, multilingual service that will show you the very best of Crete’s underwater beauty and its dive sites.
Our goal is to reveal the excitement and adventures of the underwater world and to provide you with high quality dives, in the same way that we would like to experience them ourselves.
Discover an array of spectacular dive sites such as the stunning & unique elephant cave, Skinaria, Damnoni etc, clear waters that exceed 30 meters visibility, dramatic formations of the boulders, simply an amazing terrain for a relaxing dive…
Each trip leads to a hidden world strewn with fascinating sea life and beautiful underworld treasures. Evelin Dive Center has chosen out the best dive sites dotted around Rethymnon & Georgioupolis.
As our dive sites are situated along the north and south coast of the island, you get the opportunity to discover the contrasting sea life and oceanography of both, the Aegean sea and Libyan sea.
We offer 2 dives daily. On all your dives you will be escorted by qualified DiveMasters or Instructors.
Check out our Dive Spots and feel free to contact us for questions or advice.
Our intention is to provide certified divers with a unique adventure trip, an exciting and unforgettable experience! We are the only Dive Center that is visiting all the fascinating dive sites Rethymno has to offer. Book with us a unique adventure and enjoy warm clear waters that can exceed 30 meters visibility.
We deliver world-famous Greek hospitality to divers from all across the globe. Whether you’re a diving veteran or a thrill-seeking new starter, we offer a professional, multilingual service that will show you the very best of Crete’s underwater beauty and its dive sites.
Our goal is to reveal the excitement and adventures of the underwater world and to provide you with high quality dives, in the same way that we would like to experience them ourselves.
Discover an array of spectacular dive sites such as the stunning & unique elephant cave, Skinaria, Damnoni etc, clear waters that exceed 30 meters visibility, dramatic formations of the boulders, simply an amazing terrain for a relaxing dive…
Each trip leads to a hidden world strewn with fascinating sea life and beautiful underworld treasures. Evelin Dive Center has chosen out the best dive sites dotted around Rethymnon & Georgioupolis.
As our dive sites are situated along the north and south coast of the island, you get the opportunity to discover the contrasting sea life and oceanography of both, the Aegean sea and Libyan sea.
We offer 2 dives daily. On all your dives you will be escorted by qualified DiveMasters or Instructors.
Check out our Dive Spots and feel free to contact us for questions or advice.
Add a once in a life time experience in your vacations, by discovering the exciting underwater world Crete’s.
Take the first step and learn to scuba dive with us.
KALIVAKI BEACH located in Georgioupolis, a 25min drive from Rethmyno town, is the sheltered bay we are visiting for our Discover Scuba Diving program. Rated as one of the top beaches of Crete on Tripadvisor!
We chose this bay for our second dive base as it provides the perfect conditions for our beginner divers, it has sandy shore waters, great visibility and pretty oceanography with plenty small marine life to admire.
We start the day with our pick up service from your Hotel at around 8.30 am. If you prefer to meet us straight at our dive center no.2 in Georgioupolis simply let us know.
Once we arrive at our Dive base in Georgioupolis, we welcome our guest with coffee & beverages while filling up some paper forms.
We will then start with a small briefing about basic Scuba diving skills and safety guidelines needed before going into the sea.
After completing the theoretical part we will prepare your Scuba gear for the underwater adventure.
Once you start feeling comfortable with your Scuba gear on, we start the dive from the shore to a maximum depth of 6 metres.
We will spend approximately 45min under water enjoying the beautiful scenery and silence under the sea.
Marine life we happen to see in Kalivaki bay are juvenile groupers, octopuses, rainbow wrasses, flounder fishes, sea stars, sea basses, seahorses and many more…
We deliver high standards in diver training with professional service, safety and value.
Discover scuba diving is perfect for those who want to discover how it’s like to breath underwater, connect with nature, make life-long friends and enjoy a unique experience.
You will learn:
You just can’t get enough? After completing this first dive, you can choose to follow us to a second dive and maximize your experience! The maximum depth of the second dive is 12 meters and you get to explore with much more confidence the blue underwater paradise. This dive has an additional cost.
Duration: half day
Minimum age: 10 yrs +
Prerequisites: basic swimming skills, fit for diving
THE ELEPHANT CAVE – best dive site in Crete
Our diamond, and unique dive site is the amazing “Elephant Cave”. Since operating the dive center, this dive site has been rated from experienced divers from all around the globe as one of their top 10 best dive sites around the world.
The submarine Cave of Elephants is located in Drepano area of Akrotiri, in Chania prefecture and out of Souda Bay.
For this dive site, we gather up in our dive center no2 located in Georgioupolis, right in front of the Kalivaki beach.
History of the Elephant cave:
A cavern of stunning beauty was the last home of a group of rare elephants that lived in Vamos, thousands of years ago. When the sea level rose, an unsurpassable wall of water blocked the access to this stunning natural monument, protecting it from man’s destructive interference.
A series of incredible coincidences and games of fate had to happen for the cave to be discovered and explored, in year 2000. It was accidentally discovered by a local fisher during underwater fishing.
Stunning combinations of white and red stalagmites and stalactites cast a spell to every diver been there. It was a unique discovery, as the laboratory and the scientific announcements that followed, have proved. The elephant of the cave had characteristics that have not been found anywhere else. And so scientist gave it the name “Elephas Chaniensis”.
After detailed search, all of the bones that were not stuck to the caver’s floor were taken to department of Historic Geology and Paleontology of the University of Athens. As it was proven the fossils bones belonged to elephants and deer. Taking under consideration the data collected, the age of the Cretan Elephant estimate somewhere between 50.000 and 60.000 years old.
DESCRIPTION
The caverns entrance is 3,5 to 10 metres deep and is about 9 metres wide. Dark and mysterious, it is only a few metres away from the – vertical at this point- seashore.
THE CEILING
Emerges from the water, 40 metres away from the caver’s entrance. It’s highest point is 13 metres above the surface.
THE STATIGRAPHY
The upper layer consists mostly of dwarf deer and micro mammals. In the underlying layers we find Elephas Chaniensis and normal deer bones. Two molars attached to the cave floor, 3m below water surface
THE BOTTOM
Its entire surface is covered by water. The depth ranges from a few centimetres to 4m.
THE DIMENSIONS
The main cave chamber is 120m long and its average width is 25m. The caves overall length is 160m long.
THE COLOR RED
Gorgeous white and red formations decorate the ceiling and floor.
The red stalagmites owe their colour to the amount of aluminium and iron oxide contained in the caverns stratum.
Please feel free to contact us for any questions or bookings.
TEACH THE WORLD HOW TO DIVE
Make your dreams come true and contact us for the opportunity to become a dive professional! Combine your work with lots of fun & participate in our IDC that will teach you everything you need to know to become a successful PADI Open Water Diver Instructor.
If you have a passion for scuba diving, you like people, got tired of your 9-5 job and want an extraordinary life – become a PADI Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the underwater world with others while doing what you enjoy – being in, around and under water. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors and PADI Assistant Instructors are the most “wanted” dive professionals around the world because they’ve completed the program that sets the standard for training dive professionals. You earn a PADI Instructor rating through hard work and commitment, but you’re rewarded with a job that lets you share incredible underwater adventures with others, transforming their lives for the better and enriching yours.
The Instructor Development Course (IDC) is made up of two parts – the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. Most dive professionals complete the entire IDC and go on to attend an Instructor Examination (IE), which is the final step to earn a PADI Instructor certification.
A PADI Divemaster who has been a certified diver for six months may enroll in the PADI Instructor Development Course. You also need:
In seven days, the IDC teaches you to conduct all PADI core courses. You’ll be able to organize and present information, conduct skill development sessions and control open water dives. With the days passing, you become a better public speaker and get really good at demonstrating skills while watching out for student diver safety.
Key topics include:
Participate in our IDC course starting every year & teach the world how to dive.
Next Dates are 5.3.2022-14.3.2022 & November 2022
Get the best training from experienced course director in Greece.
Feel free to contact us for further assistance or any questions you may have.
DISCOVER SNORKELING
Get your introduction into Crete’s underwater world without the use of Scuba gear. Discover the underwater delights of the fascinating fish and plant life of our island.
We offer a snorkeling programme in which you learn the correct use of snorkel, mask, fins and wetsuit followed by a trip to one of our dive sites under the direct supervision of one of our professional team member.
You may want to take the experience one step further and perhaps discover the joys of skin diving.
* Weather conditions: All tours and cruises are subject to weather conditions.
Depending on the daily weather conditions we will choose a sheltered location for the best snorkeling conditions.
Discover untouched snorkeling sites that are accessible only by boat.
Our boat trips are designed to make you discover the true beauty of the underwater world where you can enjoy the scenery while swimming in the crystal clear waters of Crete.
We will begin our day with a theoretical lesson with the instructor explaining the basics of snorkelling, safety rules and equipment. After completing the briefing we will depart with our speed boat to one of our snorkelling sites under the direct supervision of one of our professional team member.
Minimum age: 6 years old
Prerequisites: basic swimming skills
*Weather conditions: All tours and cruises are subject to weather conditions. Depending on the daily weather conditions we will choose a sheltered location for the best diving conditions.
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