Sunday, September 13rd 2026 | Meeting time: 10:00

Two of the most spectacular dive sites of the Saronic Gulf. One unforgettable afternoon. A unique diving experience.

On Sunday, September 13rd, we set sail with our DELUXE dive boat PROTEUS III for a unique double dive around the historic island of Patroklos, exploring two completely different underwater worlds:

🚢 1st Dive – “Kyra Leni” Wreck
🪸 2nd Dive – The Seal Cave

📍 Meeting Point

🕑 10:00

Palaia Fokaia Marina

Our meeting point is directly at the boat, allowing us to start our journey without delays and head straight to our destination.

🚤 Diving with PROTEUS III

This trip is operated with PROTEUS III, our 14-meter DELUXE dive boat, designed for maximum comfort and safety.

During the journey you will enjoy:

✅ Full shade coverage across the deck
✅ Comfortable seating areas
✅ Protected dry area
✅ Toilet facilities
✅ Freshwater outdoor shower
✅ Spacious and comfortable setup for divers and guests

The experience begins the moment you step onboard.

🚢 1st Dive

The Historic “Kyra Leni” Wreck

One of the most famous and beloved recreational wreck dives in the Saronic Gulf.

The cargo ship “Kyra Leni” sank on January 6th, 1978, after severe weather conditions with winds reaching 10–11 Beaufort made it impossible for the captain to safely anchor near the sheltered side of Patroklos Island.

The crew successfully abandoned the vessel and survived, but the ship remained on the seabed, becoming one of the most impressive underwater attractions of the Athens region.

Today, the wreck lies broken into two main sections and offers an incredible exploration experience for divers.

Dive characteristics

• Maximum depth: 30 meters
• Minimum depth: approximately 18 meters
• Excellent visibility in most conditions
• Recommended for Advanced Open Water Divers and above

🪸 2nd Dive

The Famous Seal Cave

One of the most beautiful and photographed dive sites in the Saronic Gulf.

The entrance of the cave is located at only 6 meters depth, making it accessible for almost every certified diver.

Inside the cave we will discover:

🦐 A large number of shrimp living in the second chamber.

🪸 Colorful sponges and marine life covering the cave walls.

💨 A unique air pocket where we can observe pressure changes inside the trapped air space.

🌊 The spectacular contrast between the darkness of the cave and the bright blue light of the sea outside.

crossfinger to meet the seal

After exiting the cave, we continue our dive along the sloping reef of Patroklos Island, exploring a beautiful underwater landscape with a maximum depth of approximately 20 meters.

ℹ️ Important Information

✔️ Participation includes both dives.

✔️ This trip is designed for certified Advanced Open Water Divers or higher, due to the profile of the first dive.

✔️ Maximum dive time:
60 minutes per dive (depending on air consumption and conditions).

👥 Minimum participation: 10 divers

👥 Maximum participation: 12 divers

💶 Participation Cost

80€ per diver

The price includes:

✅ Transportation with the DELUXE PROTEUS III dive boat

✅ Captain, crew and fuel expenses

✅ Guidance and support from professional DIVENESS instructors

✅ Two dives

✅ Tank and weights

✅ Water and snacks

Not Included

• Nitrox (+3€)

• Full SCUBAPRO equipment rental (+10€)

• Dive computer rental (+5€)

• DAN daily diving insurance (+7€)

☀️ Non-Diver Guests

Would you like to join us and simply enjoy the boat trip?

A limited number of places are available for non-divers who want to relax onboard, swim in the crystal-clear waters of Patroklos Island, and enjoy a beautiful summer afternoon at sea.

Guest participation cost: 60€

📝 Registration

Registration is required through our online form to secure your place.

👉 Registration Form

❗ Important Notes

• Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Please register only if you are certain you can participate.

• DIVENESS reserves the right to modify the schedule, dive location, or postpone the trip if weather conditions do not allow safe operation.

• In case the trip is cancelled by DIVENESS due to weather conditions, the participation fee will be fully refunded.

🌊 A historic wreck.
🪸 A spectacular cave.
🚤 A premium boat experience.

A summer afternoon full of diving, exploration, and unforgettable underwater memories.

See you onboard PROTEUS III!
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Have you ever wondered what it feels like to breathe underwater?

This is your opportunity to discover the underwater world in a safe, fun, and exciting way with the experienced team at DIVENESS.

The Discover SCUBA Diving program is designed for people with no previous diving experience and is the perfect introduction to scuba diving in Athens. In just a few hours, you will learn the basics of scuba diving, become familiar with professional diving equipment, and complete your very first scuba dive in the sea under the direct supervision of certified PADI Instructors.

Why Join This Discover SCUBA Diving Experience?

✔ No previous diving experience required

✔ Certified PADI Instructors

✔ Premium SCUBAPRO diving equipment provided

✔ Small groups and personalized attention

✔ Suitable for beginners aged 10 and above

✔ Opportunity to continue with the PADI Open Water Diver course

At DIVENESS, we believe your first scuba diving experience should be more than just a guided underwater ride. Our goal is to help you feel comfortable, confident, and truly connected to the underwater environment while enjoying the freedom that makes scuba diving such a unique adventure.

📍 Our main diving base is located in Lagonisi, on the Athens Riviera. Discover SCUBA Diving experiences are conducted at carefully selected dive sites across Southern Attica, with locations chosen according to sea and weather conditions to ensure the safest and most enjoyable experience possible.

📞 Book Your Spot & Get More Information

+30 22911 59027 (int. 9)

+30 6974 646102

🔗 Want to learn more about the Discover SCUBA Diving program?

Visit our dedicated Discover Scuba Diving page for detailed information about the experience, prerequisites, duration, safety standards, and the next steps toward becoming a certified scuba diver.

Spaces are limited and reservations are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

🌊 Discover What Lies Beneath

Deep diving is a unique experience. Darker waters, greater challenges, and absolute silence – where focus and skill go hand in hand. If you’re ready to explore the underwater world down to 40 meters with safety and confidence, then the PADI Deep Diver Specialty is your next step.

💡 What you’ll learn:

✔ How to plan and execute deep dives
✔ Managing physiological effects and increased risks
✔ Using specialized equipment and communication techniques
✔ Gas consumption assessment and decompression management
✔ Practical buoyancy and navigation techniques at greater depths

🚀 The extra value we offer at DIVENESS:

Before we begin the training dives, we conduct a preparation dive, exclusive to DIVENESS. In this dive, we practice 12 essential skills required for safety and performance in deep water.

➡️ Some of these may already be familiar from previous courses, but here you’re expected to perform them at a high level of precision.
➡️ Others will be taught for the first time – always with a focus on real-world application underwater.

This dive is the foundation for you to feel ready, confident, and truly prepared before reaching 40 meters.

📋 Requirements:

• Minimum age: 15 years
• PADI Adventure Diver certification or equivalent
• Minimum experience: 20 logged dives (recommended)

🎯 Course Price: €285
The price includes:
✅ Training with a certified PADI Instructor
✅ 4 dives (including the preparation dive)
✅ Required Dive Equipment
✅ PADI Deep Diver Certification & eLearning
✅ Dive Insurance

📬 Reserve your spot!

Spots are limited to ensure quality training.
Register quickly and easily by filling out the participation form:

👉 REGISTRATION FORM

📍 We’re waiting for you at DIVENESS, to explore what lies beneath… together!

Regulators Presentation

History • Technology • Evolution

Sunday, September 20, 2026
Time: 17:00
Location: DIVENESS – 165 Kalyvion Avenue, Lagonisi

How many times have you put your regulator in your mouth, taken your first breath and started your dive?

And how many times have you wondered what exactly happens inside it?

How did we go from the first self-contained breathing apparatus of the 19th century to the regulators we use today?

How do they work?

What different mechanical designs have been used throughout their evolution?

What should a diver really check before entering the water?

And, ultimately, how well do we know the equipment on which our breathing underwater depends?

On September 20, DIVENESS welcomes Ioannis–Stylianos (Stelios) Papazoglou for a presentation that is not intended only for “technical” divers.

It is for every diver who wants to know a little more about what they carry on their back and what they put in their mouth when they dive.

And the title he chose says a lot:

“Towards Preventing Oblivion…”

Because the history of diving, the people who lived it, the equipment that was used, and the knowledge accumulated over decades should not be lost.

⚙️ What We Will Explore

The presentation will be developed in five sections:

1. Historical Overview

The evolution of the open-circuit self-contained breathing apparatus, from the mid-19th century to the present day.

2. Breathing Regulators

Technical characteristics, mechanical designs and operating principles.

3. Diving Equipment Checks

The proper inspection of the entire open-circuit self-contained breathing apparatus, both at the surface and during the first few metres before the dive.

4. The Diver’s Own Responsibilities

Maintenance, hygiene rules, servicing and everything the user of their equipment should know.

5. Open Discussion – Questions

Time for questions, discussion and exchange of experiences.

🏛️ Museum Exhibits Will Be on Display

And there is something that makes this presentation even more special.

During the presentation, we will have the opportunity to see equipment from different eras up close:

• Breathing regulators
• Buoyancy compensators
• Closed-circuit systems
• Dive computers

Not just photographs and theory.

Real pieces of diving history, right in front of us.

🔵 Who Is Stelios Papazoglou?

And this is perhaps the most important part of this meeting.

Ioannis–Stylianos Papazoglou’s diving training began in 1983 and continues to this day.

During his military service in the Hellenic Navy, he trained as a deep diver, with responsibilities involving submarine rescue, mine clearance and diving operations.

Throughout his long training and professional career, he has been certified as:

• Scuba Diving Instructor
• Technical Breathing Regulator and Closed-Circuit Systems Instructor
• First Aid Instructor – including management of multiple-trauma and traumatic brain injuries
• Lifeguard Instructor
• Gas Blender
• Oxygen Equipment Maintenance Technician
• Operator of an eight-person Hyperbaric Chamber
• Licensed Commercial Diver and Diving Contractor

Professional Experience

His professional activity, however, has extended far beyond training.

He has worked as a technical advisor with:

• ITHAVIK
• The Greek Emergency Response Unit (EMAK)
• EKTHE
• The Hellenic Navy Diving Team
• The Amphibious Special Forces Team (LOK)
• MYK–DYK

He has carried out underwater filming for documentaries, including “Aegean Waves”, “In Depth” and “Diving and Disability”, as well as for television productions such as “Menoume Ellada” and “Thalatta.”

He also participated as the technical equipment supervisor in documentaries produced by the German public television networks ZDF and ARD, working with cinematographer Roberto Rinaldi, a former diver of the Calypso, for the filming of the wildlife and caves of the Ionian Sea.

Experience Beyond the Diving World

His experience extends even beyond the diving field.

He has carried out video recordings and photography of surgical procedures — orthopedic, neurosurgical, anesthesiological, general surgery and others — in collaboration with hospitals and university clinics, with the aim of creating educational material for medical conferences and seminars.

At the same time, he has served as Safety and Technical Equipment Officer on shipwrecks of historical and scientific interest, working with American, Canadian and New Zealand organizations and with the support of The Explorers Club, on expeditions involving, among others, the shipwrecks of BRITANNIC and BURDIGALA.

He has also worked as an external Safety Officer for the Underwater Mapping Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Why Do We Want to Host This Presentation at DIVENESS?

Because there are things that cannot be learned from a manual alone.

There is knowledge acquired through training.

There is knowledge acquired through technical expertise.

And then there is the knowledge that comes from having spent more than 40 years immersed in the world of diving.

This is knowledge worth hearing from the people who carry it.

And knowledge worth passing on to younger divers.

🆓 Participation Is FREE

The presentation is offered by DIVENESS Academy, as part of the free educational activities we organize for the diving community.

For us, diving does not end with a beautiful dive.

We want divers to understand their equipment, know its history and evolution, be able to ask questions, learn and continue to develop.

Because at DIVENESS, we believe that:

A better diver is a diver who never stops learning.

Towards preventing oblivion… then.

📅 Event Information

Date: Sunday, September 20, 2026
Time: 17:00
Location: DIVENESS – 165 Kalyvion Avenue, Lagonisi

Topic: 🤿 Breathing Regulators | History • Technology • Evolution

‼️ Registration Is Required

Reserve your place HERE BEFORE coming to DIVENESS:

https://forms.gle/JM4SZu4JVdDGQcd19

The venue has a limited capacity — please help us organize the event properly by registering in advance.

🤿 For Every Diver

Whether you are a new diver or have hundreds of dives under your belt, this is one of those gatherings that is truly worth attending.

Can you imagine diving without fins? 🤿
Nature has inspired us, and humans have made it a reality! Fins – or flippers – are the secret to moving faster, more efficiently, and with less effort underwater.

❌ But simply owning fins doesn’t mean you’re using them correctly!
✅ That’s why DIVENESS has created a one-of-a-kind specialty, offered EXCLUSIVELY at our dive center:

🏅 FROG KICK DIVER 🏅

🔹 PADI-Recognized Specialty
🔹 Created Nationally & Exclusively by Dive Instructor Ioannis Angelakos
🔹 PADI Certification Upon Completion

❓ Is This Specialty for You?

✔️ Do you want complete control over your body underwater?
✔️ Do you want to move in all directions without losing your trim?
✔️ Do you want to use the least amount of energy for maximum propulsion?
✔️ Do you want to master the most efficient underwater propulsion technique?

💡 If your answer is YES, then the Frog Kick Diver specialty is for you!

🏊 COURSE STRUCTURE

📅 Saturday, 26/09/2026 @ 15:00
🌊 Open Water – 2 Dives
✅ Perfect Trim for Frog Kick
✅ Forward & Backward Movement
✅ On-the-Spot Rotation

⚡ ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

✔️ Minimum 12 years old
✔️ PADI Open Water Diver certification (or equivalent from another agency)

💰 COURSE COST

🎟️ Frog Kick Diver Specialty: €200.00

🔥 SPECIAL OFFER by DIVENESS! 🔥

💡 The key to mastering the Frog Kick technique lies in the RIGHT FINS!

💥 SCUBAPRO Jet Fins at cost price 💥

🛍️ Want to use SCUBAPRO Jet Fins during the course?
📞 Contact us at least 10 days in advance!

📢 REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
📞 Call us now at +30 6974646102 or fill in the FORM

⚠️ In case of unfavorable weather conditions, the dive center reserves the right to reschedule. In this case, a refund of the deposit will be provided.

👉 Ready to embark on the ultimate journey to perfection?
🌊 Become a PADI Frog Kick Diver with DIVENESS!

Become the Instructor who changes lives under the water

Diving is not just an activity.
It’s a feeling. It’s freedom. It’s that first breath below the surface that stays etched forever.

Someone Instructor was there for every diver at that moment.

👉 Now it’s your turn to be that person.

If you want to turn your passion for diving into a career with perspective, substance, and international opportunities, the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) at DIVENESS is the step that takes you from experienced diver… to professional on the global diving stage.

At DIVENESS we don’t just produce instructors. We create complete professionals.

💥 What really makes this IDC stand out

🕒 20 days of training — because quality takes time

We don’t believe in “fast-track IDCs”.
Our program lasts 20 full days, so you gain:

✔ real comfort in teaching
✔ deep understanding of PADI Standards
✔ daily personal coaching
✔ preparation for real professional life

Here we don’t just prepare you for exams.
We prepare you for a career.

👨‍🏫 Learn from people who live what you will do

Course Director
🔹 Giannis Zagorakis – PADI Platinum Course Director (2 consecutive years)
A distinction reflecting experience, quality, and a high success rate of new Instructors.

IDC Staff Instructor
🔹 Giannis Aggelakos – PADI Master Instructor, Head Instructor DIVENESS
20 years of active presence in training and running a high-standard dive center.

Business • Marketing • Sales
🔹 Aggeliki Spanea – Co-owner of DIVENESS, PADI Marketing Award Winner
You will learn how a successful diving business really works: from first contact with the client to creating loyal divers.

📌 Because the modern Instructor is not just good in the water — they are professional everywhere.

🏊‍♂️ Training in a private pool

DIVENESS has a private training pool — unique in Greece.

For you, this means:

✔ controlled and ideal learning environment
✔ unlimited practice access
✔ safe and proper progressive skills teaching
✔ realistic preparation for your future courses

Here you learn to teach properly, not just demonstrate exercises.

🎓 3 additional Instructor Specialties included in the program

You start your career already professionally strengthened.

At DIVENESS you get a package of 3 additional specialties, so you enter the market ready.

✔ More courses you can teach
✔ Greater professional value
✔ Better income prospects

Specialties:
Enriched Air • Deep • Full Face Mask • Equipment Specialist • O₂ Provider or Gas Blender*

*Corresponding diver certification & equipment purchase required.

📚 What you will be able to do as a new Instructor

During the IDC, you will learn how to:

🔹 organize and deliver a lesson properly
🔹 explain theory in a simple and meaningful way
🔹 evaluate and correct students in the water
🔹 manage safety and risk
🔹 operate professionally in a dive center
🔹 promote diving in a correct and ethical way

Our goal?
When you finish, you will enter a classroom, pool, or sea with confidence — as a ready professional, not just a successful exam candidate.

🌍 After the IDC… what’s next

We don’t see you as “just another graduate”.

Instructors who stand out for professionalism and attitude receive support and recommendations through a network of partner dive centers in Greece and abroad.

We invest in people who want to grow — and stay with them even after the program ends.

✅ Participation Requirements

• PADI Divemaster or equivalent
• Minimum age: 18
• Certified diver ≥ 6 months
• 60 logged dives to start
• 100 logged dives for exams
• Medical statement from the last 12 months

📅 New IDC – Start Date

Start: Sunday 25/10/2026 at 14:00
Location: DIVENESS
Remaining days arranged in coordination with the team.

💶 Participation Cost

€1250 + VAT

Included

✔ IDC program & Course Director
✔ EFR Instructor Course
✔ 3 additional Instructor Specialties
✔ Complete SCUBAPRO equipment
✔ Equipment transport
✔ DIVENESS pool & facilities
✔ Supplementary educational material

Not Included

IE, PADI certification applications, Instructor materials, additional specialty fees, personal gear, DAN insurance, etc.

🎁 Extra Benefits

✨ 3 additional Instructor Specialties
✨ Preparation before the start
✨ WiFi
☕ Coffee, tea & water

🤿 Ready to step up to the next professional level?

If you see yourself guiding, inspiring, and opening the way for new divers, this is your starting point.

👉 Register for the IDC and the DIVENESS team will contact you immediately with all the details.

Your career as a PADI Instructor starts with a single decision.
Make it now.