The Temple.
A large cave with two entrances: a very large opening in the roof and a smaller one on the other side, along a cliff. The walls are covered with sponges and corals, and light entering from outside is visible from the middle of the cave. The centre says the dive can be combined with the Cliff and Little Church, and that the Cliff leads to the Temple's small entrance.
Night-course dives, turn and turn about with Little Church.
What's down there.
- Very large entrance in the cave roof
- Smaller side entrance along the Cliff
- Daylight effects inside the cave
- Sponge- and coral-covered walls
- Sponges
- Corals
Maximum 26 m (centre). The depths of the two entrances are not given.
The centre does not say how this site is reached; it says most of its sites are reached by boat from Fiskardo harbour in under 20 minutes, and describes the sea as calm and often current-free, with visibility that can reach 40 m. The 26 m maximum is deeper than the Open Water limit (18 m) and within the Advanced Open Water limit (30 m) that the centre uses; the dive is inside a cave (an overhead environment). In Peter's account it was one of the two sites, with Little Church, used for night-dive courses.
How it got there.
The centre compares caverns it found later with the Temple: the Secret of Venus (first explored in 2009) and Poseidon Retreat (discovered in 2011).
134 dives.
From the log — the dates follow the pattern I dived, so read them as representative rather than exact.