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$ cat diving/sites/polis-bay

Polis Bay.

An easy dive meandering along the Ithacan coast, passing fragments of ancient amphorae from different periods. The centre notes a large population of colourful nudibranchs.

Where · Polis Bay, on the west coast of Ithaca, across the channel from Fiskardo. Type · bay Depth · to 18 m Logged · 76 dives, 13 Oct 2004 – 28 Jun 2005
$ man polis-bay
01 / The dive

What's down there.

POINTS OF INTEREST
  • Fragments of ancient amphorae from different periods
  • Coastal route along Ithaca's west coast
MARINE LIFE
  • Nudibranchs (numerous, colourful)
DEPTH & CONDITIONS

Maximum 18 m; the centre rates it Open Water / Scuba Diver (12 m) level.

Rated 'easy' and Open Water / Scuba Diver (12 m) level by the centre. Access from Fiskardo is across the channel, so by boat, though the centre does not state it. The 18 m maximum suits Open Water training dives.

$ git log --reverse polis-bay
02 / History

How it got there.

The centre reports amphora fragments from different periods along the route. Wikipedia records the Polis Cave, near Stavros in the north of Ithaca, as a place of worship from the Early Bronze Age to the Roman period; the sources retrieved do not say how it relates to the dive.

$ grep polis-bay diving/log | wc -l
03 / Logged here

76 dives.

From the log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.

2004 23
2005 53

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