Tauchplaetze - Virgin Point  
 
I recommend this rich underwater habitat to every professional diver, who comes to dive in North Cyprus. You can see different fishes or creatures in different hours in a same day. This diving site has long wall and crests, which are located along west to north-east around 100 meters long. Also depth is changing from 30 meters to 55 meters. Dive site is located north of Kyrenia Alsancak Mercury Hotel. This diving site is founded in 1995 by me and 3 of my friends, which was named as virgin point because of untouched habitat. While you are at diving, you can see rock groupers and groupers. These fishes are so friendly, if you do not react rapidly, you can swim and play with them. In our dives we see 4 to 5 different kinds of grouper. It is guarantee that you can see 4 different kinds of nudibranch. These beautiful creatures are named as sea rabbit in Turkey. Also you can see brown meager, Mediterranean eel, leer fish, tuna fish, stingray, Mediterranean lobster(Karavida), squirrelfish(Cardinal), parrot fish, turtle, red snapper, octopus, dusky spinefoot, white sea-bream, oblada melanura, sea bream…

You can see 2 meters octopuses come to lay eggs in April and May at this diving site. Turtles start to come in June. Actually we can see turtles every dive in July and August. We can see larger fishes and creatures, if we dive deeper. We can see 2 meters leer fishes, rough rays and tuna fishes at this depth. When we reach 45 meters depth 2 meters sponges welcomes us, however we cannot stay more than 3-5 minutes, we do not want to but we leave this beautiful site and start to ascent…

If we look from bright side, all divers said they not to get tired of being in this diving site. They claim too many things to see but insufficient time. They did not get tired of dive this site several times because they see different things in every time.
 
 
 
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