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Amphora Garden & the Telendos Labyrinth
Diving
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
Ancient amphorae still lying where cargoes went over the side, half-buried in the rock and sand, and the Labyrinth of Telendos, a maze of rock, arches, canyons and caves running along the island's underwater flank with coral and dense fish life.
B-17 Flying Fortress, Vis
Diving
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
An almost complete B-17 sitting upright on white sand at 72m, wings spread and three of four engines in place, in 40m visibility, the aircraft looks like it landed there. One of the finest aircraft wrecks in Europe and one of the least visited.
Banco di Santa Croce
Diving
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
Five rock pinnacles rising from around 50m to within 12m of the surface, upholstered in red and yellow gorgonians, black coral and sponges, with amberjack and barracuda in the blue, an unlikely amount of life a few miles from Naples.
Bay of Kotor
Anchoring
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Montenegro & the eastern Adriatic
Often called Europe's southernmost fjord, though it is actually a drowned river canyon to 1,700m limestone walls rising straight from the water, a walled medieval city at its head, and two islets off Perast, one a natural rock with a monastery, one entirely man-made from stones dropped by sailors…
Blue Hole & Azure Window site, Dwejra
Diving
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Malta & Gozo
A natural limestone chimney beside the shore that drops to 26m and exits through an arch onto an open wall, one of the most photographed dive entries in Europe. Since 2017 the site also includes the collapsed blocks of the Azure Window, now a boulder field on the seabed.
Blue Lagoon, Krknjaši
Anchoring
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A shallow lagoon between islets where the white sand bottom turns the water an almost artificial pale blue, the most photographed swimming spot near Split. Snorkelling over sand and rock ledges with bream and octopus.
Blue Lagoon & Santa Marija Caves, Comino
Diving
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Malta & Gozo
Water so pale it looks tropical, over white sand between two islands, with a chain of caves and tunnels along the Comino shore, Santa Marija Caves are a genuine cave dive network with shafts of light, and the Crystal Lagoon next door is deeper and emptier.
Cabrera Archipelago
Anchoring
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The Balearics, Spain
The Mediterranean as it was before development, an uninhabited national park archipelago with a 14th-century castle over the harbour, the Cova Blava sea cave that turns the water electric blue at midday, groupers that approach you, and the clearest water in the Balearics.
Cala Corsara & the Maddalena Archipelago
Anchoring
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Sardinia & the Maddalena, Italy
Wind-sculpted granite boulders, white sand and water that shades from white to jade to deep blue in three metres. Budelli's Spiaggia Rosa, a genuinely pink beach, is strictly off-limits to landing but visible from the water. Sixty-plus islands and islets to work through.
Cala Culip & Cap de Creus
Anchoring
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Costa Brava & the Spanish Mediterranean, Spain
Black slate rock folded into shapes that Dalí painted from the shore at Portlligat, clear water over posidonia, and the Cadaqués coast around the corner. The cove is a natural harbour that has been used since Greek and Roman traders worked this coast, amphorae have come off the bottom here.
Cala Macarella & Macarelleta
Anchoring
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The Balearics, Spain
The image people picture when they say 'Mediterranean', white sand, pine forest to the water's edge, and water so clear that anchored boats appear to float above their own shadows. Macarelleta next door is smaller and better.
Cathedral & Green Cave, Ravnik
Snorkeling
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A cave with a hole in its roof that drops a green-gold column of light onto the water inside, where you can swim. Less famous than the Blue Cave on Biševo, twenty minutes away, and far less crowded, the classic Vis double-header for a charter day.
Chios walls & the Great Wall
Diving
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
Sheer walls dropping past 45m with 35m visibility, caves and tunnels through the rock, dense gorgonians, dentex and amberjack, plus the mastic-scented villages ashore. Regularly rated the best diving island in Greece by people who dive there, and ignored by everyone else.
Despotiko
Snorkeling
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
A marble sanctuary to Apollo being excavated and re-erected on an uninhabited island, with column drums standing again after 2,500 years, and a shallow turquoise channel you anchor in to see it.
Écomusée Sous-Marin de Cannes
Snorkeling
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The French Riviera & Corsica, France
Six 2m portrait masks of Cannes residents, a fisherman, an 80-year-old, a schoolchild, each split down the middle to form a swim-through. In 3-5m of clear Med water over posidonia and sand; the whole museum is a free snorkel.
Edivo Vina underwater winery
Diving
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South Dalmatia: Mljet, Lastovo & Dubrovnik, Croatia
Clay amphorae in steel cages on the seabed at 20m, encrusted with coral and shellfish, holding maturing Plavac Mali red wine. Divers swim among them and the bottles are recovered, shell-crusted, for tasting ashore, the encrustation becomes part of the label.
Elephant Cave (Σπήλαιο Ελεφάντων), Crete
Diving
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
A cave entrance at around 10m opening into chambers with stalactites and stalagmites that formed in air, now under the sea, and the fossil bones and tusks of dwarf elephants and deer that walked in when the cave was dry and the Mediterranean was far lower.
Es Vedrà sunset
Sunsets
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The Balearics, Spain
A 400m limestone monolith rising straight out of the sea with nothing around it, catching the last light while the sun sets beside it. This is the Ibiza sunset that isn't a beach club, you anchor off, swim, and watch the rock go from white to orange to black silhouette.
Giannutri, the natural arches
Diving
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Liguria, Portofino & the Tuscan archipelago, Italy
A series of rock arches, tunnels and blow-holes you swim through, packed with glassfish and grouper, plus the mosaic floors of a Roman villa on the shore above and amphora scatters on the seabed below.
Girolata & Scandola Reserve
Anchoring
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The French Riviera & Corsica, France
Blood-red porphyry cliffs 300m straight up out of clear water, a village of 20 people with no road access, and the Scandola marine reserve next door, where fish biomass is so high that grouper come to look at you. Ospreys nest on the cliffs.
Golfo di Orosei, Cala Goloritzé & Cala Mariolu
Anchoring
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Sardinia & the Maddalena, Italy
A 40km wall of white limestone with no roads behind it, broken by pebble coves the colour of a swimming pool. Cala Goloritzé has a 143m rock spire above it and is a UNESCO-listed natural monument; Cala Mariolu's white shingle makes the water glow.
Grande Grotta & the Kalymnos walls
Diving
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
A cave whose roof breaks the surface while its floor drops away underwater, so you swim from daylight into a chamber lit from above. Around it, Kalymnos' walls, ancient amphora scatters, and the sponge-diving heritage that defined the island.
Grotta Azzurra (Blue Grotto)
Snorkeling
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
A cave whose entire interior glows electric blue because sunlight enters through a large submerged opening below the tiny surface entrance and is filtered by seawater. The water looks lit from within, and anything white in it turns silver. There is nothing subtle about it.
Haven
Diving
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Liguria, Portofino & the Tuscan archipelago, Italy
The largest wreck in the Mediterranean to 334m of VLCC standing upright, the bridge structure at 34m and the hull plunging to 80m. The scale is genuinely hard to process, swimming along a deck that never ends.
HMHS Britannic
Diving
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
The largest passenger liner on the seabed anywhere, Titanic's younger sister, 269m long, lying on her starboard side and astonishingly intact, with davits, the bridge and portholes clearly defined. Only a few dozen people have ever seen her.
HMS Perseus
Diving
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
A British submarine sitting upright on the sand at 52m, largely intact, with the mine damage visible forward and her gun in place. Sombre and rarely dived.
Il Cristo degli Abissi (Christ of the Abyss)
Diving
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
The original. A 2.5m bronze Christ, arms and eyes raised to the surface, standing on the seabed of a medieval abbey bay inside the Portofino marine reserve. Green Med light, gorgonians, forkbeard and octopus in the rocks.
Îles Cerbicale
Diving
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The French Riviera & Corsica, France
Granite drop-offs and boulder fields in very clear water, with dentex, grouper and barracuda, gorgonian at depth, and a seabird colony above the surface that is the reason the whole group is closed to people.
Illes Medes
Diving
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Costa Brava & the Spanish Mediterranean, Spain
Seven limestone islets riddled with tunnels and caves, red gorgonian fans on the deeper walls, and a resident population of groupers, conger, moray and dense schools of saddled bream that have lost all fear of divers after four decades of protection.
Karwela
Diving
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Malta & Gozo
One of the most photographed frames in European diving, an internal staircase lit by sunlight streaming through the deck above, which photographers queue for. A 50m ferry sitting upright and fully prepared for penetration, with two sister wrecks (Cominoland and Xlendi) alongside.
Kastos
Anchoring
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
A village of stone houses with almost no cars, olive terraces going back to scrub, and a horizon of Ionian islands, Ithaca, Kalamos, Meganisi, in every direction from the ridge.
Kleftiko & the Milos coast
Anchoring
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
Blinding white volcanic rock formations rising from water so clear the boat's shadow is sharp on the bottom at 15m, arches, caves and pinnacles you tender and swim through. Milos also has Sarakiniko's lunar white rock shelf and Papafragas' slot canyons.
Kornati & Telašćica
Anchoring
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Istria, Kvarner & north Dalmatia, Croatia
Bernard Shaw's line was that on the last day of Creation God wanted to crown his work and made the Kornati from tears, stars and breath.
Kristu tal-Baħħara (Christ of the Sailors)
Diving
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Malta & Gozo
A 3m concrete-and-fibreglass Christ standing in the blue at 35m, paired on the same dive with the wreck of the MV Imperial Eagle ferry. Deep, dark, and genuinely eerie, the most atmospheric of all the underwater Christs.
La Casa dei Pesci, Museo Sottomarino
Diving
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Liguria, Portofino & the Tuscan archipelago, Italy
Forty blocks of Carrara marble, several carved into figures by name sculptors, standing on a seagrass plain. Half art gallery, half weapon, each block is placed to shred illegal trawl nets. Fish life has exploded around them.
Lastovo archipelago
Anchoring
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South Dalmatia: Mljet, Lastovo & Dubrovnik, Croatia
Croatia's answer to Vis and almost nobody goes to 46 islands and islets, the clearest water in the Adriatic, sixteenth-century chimneys on the stone houses, and a designated Dark Sky park, the night sky here is the darkest in Croatia. The Lastovnjaci islets are an anchorage maze.
Le Donator (Prosper Schiaffino)
Diving
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The French Riviera & Corsica, France
78m of cargo ship upright on sand, considered the finest wreck on the French Riviera, completely blanketed in yellow and red gorgonian fans, with conger eels in the holds and clouds of anthias. Deep enough to have stayed pristine.
Li Galli & the Amalfi Coast anchorages
Anchoring
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
Vertical villages stacked above the sea, the Li Galli islets (once Rudolf Nureyev's private islands, and Homer's mythical home of the Sirens), the Grotta dello Smeraldo at Conca dei Marini, and the best sunset light in Italy hitting Positano's face from the water.
Lokrum & the Elaphiti Islands
Anchoring
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South Dalmatia: Mljet, Lastovo & Dubrovnik, Croatia
Lokrum is a forested island fifteen minutes from Dubrovnik's walls with a Benedictine monastery, free-roaming peacocks and the Dead Sea, a small saltwater lake connected to the sea that you swim in. Beyond it, the Elaphiti chain, Lopud's sand beach at Šunj, and Šipan's near-empty bays.
Marettimo & the Egadi Islands
Anchoring
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Sicily, the Egadi & the Aeolians, Italy
Europe's largest marine protected area, and almost nobody cruises it. Marettimo is a single mountain rising from deep water with 400 sea caves, monk-seal history and no cars. Favignana's flooded tufa quarries make surreal swimming pools cut into the coast.
Maslinica & the Šolta coast
Anchoring
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A pastel stone village facing west over seven small islets, with the only west-facing sunset harbour in central Dalmatia, an 18th-century castle turned marina, and olive groves running to the water. Šolta gets a fraction of the traffic of its famous neighbours.
Medvidina, the monk seal cave
Snorkeling
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A 160m tunnel cave you swim into, ending at a hidden pebble beach in total darkness, named for the Mediterranean monk seal, which bred here until the mid-20th century. Vast, silent and almost never visited, twenty minutes from the tour-boat queue at the Blue Cave.
Melissani Cave
Snorkeling
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
A cave lake whose roof collapsed thousands of years ago, so at midday sunlight drops straight down onto brackish water and the boat appears to hover in mid-air over a visible bottom 20-30m below. The blue is not an exaggeration.
Mljet lakes & Polače
Anchoring
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South Dalmatia: Mljet, Lastovo & Dubrovnik, Croatia
Two connected saltwater lakes inside a forested island, warm enough to swim from May, with a 12th-century Benedictine monastery on an islet in the middle of the larger lake. You can kayak from the sea into the lakes. Croatia's greenest island to 90% forest.
Modra Špilja (Blue Cave), Biševo
Snorkeling
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
Croatia's answer to Capri, and arguably better, between late morning and midday, light enters through a submerged side opening and floods the whole 24m-wide chamber silver-blue, so boats appear to float on liquid light. Combine with the Green Cave on Ravnik and the Stiniva cove on Vis in one day.
MuMART, Museo Sottomarino di Arte
Diving
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Sardinia & the Maddalena, Italy
A small, uncrowded gallery of contemporary works on Sardinian sand and rock, a genuinely local, un-Instagrammed alternative to the Med's big museums, 15 minutes from Olbia's superyacht berths.
Musée Subaquatique de Marseille
Snorkeling
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The French Riviera & Corsica, France
Ten sculptures, a fin whale tail, human forms, a shoal, 100m off a city beach in 5m of water. Free, snorkel-only, and utterly unexpected in the middle of France's second city.
Navagio (Shipwreck Beach) & the Blue Caves
Anchoring
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
The rusted hull of the freighter Panagiotis half-buried in white pebbles at the foot of 200m limestone cliffs, in water that is a luminous, almost artificial blue. Round the headland, the Blue Caves' arches turn everything beneath the surface electric.
Odysseus Cave
Snorkeling
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South Dalmatia: Mljet, Lastovo & Dubrovnik, Croatia
A cave whose roof has collapsed, leaving a natural skylight that drops a column of light onto water inside, you swim in through a sea-level tunnel and surface in a rock amphitheatre open to the sky. Quieter and wilder than the famous Vis caves.
Olous
Snorkeling
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
City walls and building foundations in half a metre of water beside a causeway, the easiest sunken city in the world to see, no equipment needed. You can literally walk over it.
One House Bay, Atokos
Anchoring
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
Water so clear the boat's shadow is the only thing marking the bottom, a bay with one building in it, goats on the ridge, and, at night, no lights anywhere except Kalamos across the water.
Pakleni Islands & Palmižana
Anchoring
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
Twenty-odd wooded islets forming a maze of turquoise channels and coves a mile from Hvar's Venetian waterfront, with konobas built on the rocks and a botanical garden at Palmižana planted in the 1900s. The clearest water within reach of a nightlife town.
Palmarola
Anchoring
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
Jacques Cousteau called it the most beautiful island in the Mediterranean and almost nobody outside Italy has heard of it. Uninhabited volcanic spires, white pumice cliffs, sea caves, cathedral-like rock arches and a single seasonal trattoria carved into the rock.
Parco Archeologico Sommerso di Baia
Diving
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
Roman streets you can swim down. Intact mosaic floors, marble columns, statue bases, the Villa dei Pisoni, a nymphaeum with copies of its statues set back in place, and the road to the Portus Julius naval harbour, all in 5-14m of water.
Pavlopetri
Snorkeling
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
The oldest submerged planned town in the world, streets, courtyards, building foundations and chamber tombs laid out on a sandy seabed in 4m of water, visible from a snorkel or from a drone. Roughly 5,000 years of continuous occupation is mapped here.
Peristera ancient wreck
Diving
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
Three thousand amphorae lying in a ship-shaped mound on the seabed, the cargo of a 5th-century BC merchant vessel exactly where it settled 2,400 years ago. One of the largest classical cargoes ever found, and until 2020 no sport diver had ever been allowed near it.
Polyaigos
Anchoring
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
White volcanic rock cut into caves and arches, water that reads mint green over sand, and, with luck and distance, a Mediterranean monk seal, of which only a few hundred remain.
Ponza & Chiaia di Luna
Anchoring
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The Amalfi coast & the Pontine islands, Italy
A 200m crescent of white tufa cliff, Chiaia di Luna, glowing above turquoise water, plus sea caves, natural pools at Piscine Naturali, and a pastel fishing harbour that has somehow escaped international tourism entirely. Roman tunnels cut through the cliffs.
Port Leone, Kalamos
Anchoring
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The Ionian & Crete, Greece
Roofless stone houses in olive terraces, a church that is still maintained by people who row over for the saint's day, and a bay where the only sound is goats and your own chain.
Premuda, Donkey's Ears cave
Diving
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Istria, Kvarner & north Dalmatia, Croatia
Croatia's finest cave dive, twin chambers, the 'ears', with two entrances, one at 5m and one at 30m, meeting in a cathedral space where blue light pours through both. Lobster, conger and forkbeard in the walls, and 40m visibility outside.
Proizd
Anchoring
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South Dalmatia: Mljet, Lastovo & Dubrovnik, Croatia
An uninhabited islet of bleached white rock shelves dropping straight into water so clear the bottom looks a metre away at ten. Repeatedly voted the best beach in Croatia despite having no sand at all. Bilin Žal and Batalo are the two swimming coves.
Rozi & P29
Diving
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Malta & Gozo
Two intact vessels within one dive area, the tug Rozi standing upright at 36m with her wheelhouse open, and the patrol boat P29 at 33m with her gun mount still fitted. Plus the Ċirkewwa arch and reef. Amberjack, barracuda and a resident grouper.
Rubis (French submarine)
Diving
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The French Riviera & Corsica, France
An intact WWII minelaying submarine sitting upright on the sand off Saint-Tropez, conning tower and deck gun in place, gorgonians on the hull. Among the most atmospheric dives in the Med and a short hop from the busiest anchorage on the Riviera.
Sakarun
Anchoring
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Istria, Kvarner & north Dalmatia, Croatia
A 800m crescent of genuinely white sand backed by pine, in water so pale it reads Caribbean rather than Adriatic, the colour comes from the white sand bottom, not clarity alone. Overnight here and you get it to yourself.
Santorini caldera sunset
Sunsets
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The Aegean & the Dodecanese, Greece
The single best sunset a boat can put you in front of. From the water you get the whole caldera at once, 300m of striped volcanic cliff with white villages spilling over the rim, turning gold then pink then violet, while the sun drops behind Thirasia.
Secca del Papa, Tavolara
Diving
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Sardinia & the Maddalena, Italy
A rock tower rising to 18m with its flanks completely covered in yellow and red gorgonians, dentex and barracuda circling the top, and the wall dropping past 45m into blue. Tavolara itself stands 560m straight out of the sea above you.
Stiniva Cove
Anchoring
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A near-enclosed cove behind a collapsed cave roof, two cliff walls almost meeting overhead, a pebble beach inside, and a gap barely wide enough for a tender. Voted Europe's best beach more than once and still only reachable by boat or a steep goat track.
Stromboli, Sciara del Fuoco night anchorage
Anchoring
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Sicily, the Egadi & the Aeolians, Italy
The finest thing you can watch from a boat anywhere in the Mediterranean, Stromboli erupts every 10-20 minutes, and glowing lava bombs roll down the Sciara del Fuoco, a 700m scree slope, straight into the sea, hissing. You watch from the water in the dark with nothing between you and it.
Teti
Diving
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A 1930s Italian steamer broken across a rocky slope from 10m to 34m, boilers, winches, hull plating and the propeller shaft spread out, with light flooding the shallow sections and dense fish life. Perfect for a first Adriatic wreck.
Um El Faroud
Diving
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Malta & Gozo
A 110m Libyan tanker now broken in two by winter storms, sitting on sand with the accommodation block and engine room open to penetration. Amberjack, dentex and barracuda over the deck; the reef between the halves is dense with life.
Vassilios T
Diving
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
A 100m Greek cargo steamer lying on her port side down a slope, so intact that the bridge, holds and propeller all read clearly, and coated in sponge with big shoals of bream and conger in the holds. The best wreck dive in the Adriatic after the Baron Gautsch.
Zlatni Rat (Golden Horn)
Anchoring
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Central Dalmatia: Hvar, Vis & Brač, Croatia
Croatia's most famous beach, a pebble spit that projects half a kilometre into the Hvar channel and physically changes shape and direction with the currents and wind. Pine forest to the waterline, and 40 metres of visibility in the channel.
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