C&C SCUBA DIVING

Kalkan - Antalya - Turkey

Discover with us the various dive sites around Kalkan! We offer you daily dive tours, PADI and CMAS Courses, Discover Scuba various dive sites with a lot of fish and amphoras wreck diving, night dives, all specialties special dive boat with warm and friendly atmosphere professional and enthusiastic staff we welcome non divers and children lunch, Turkish tea and the use of snorkeling equipment included

DIVE SITES

We offer daily dive tours, which start at 10 am and generally we are back in the harbour around 5 pm. Of course we can organize a transfer to the harbour for you, if your hotel is not close to the harbour! In the main season a day on the boat could be like that:

Corinna, Cahit, Murat and Rıfat are the responsible for the diving activities. They welcome the students and try divers on the boat at 9:00 am, where they get a general introduction, watch videos and prepare equipment. Experienced divers and non divers should be on the boat at 9:45 am - who is coming early can join us for a tea!

We leave the harbour at 10:00 am, heading for the first dive site for the experienced divers. Usually this places give also a nice opportunity for swimming and snorkeling for those who are not diving. After the first dive we go to a sheltered place for the lunch break. By that time Hakkı has prepared his excellent freshly cooked food. The experienced divers and non divers can use this time for sun tanning, swimming, sleeping, reading, talking and tea drinking .. everything that relaxes. Try divers go to water here in safe conditions and students will make their training dives in confined water.

Next station is the second dive site for the experienced divers. After this dive we go back to the harbour, sometimes in the hot season with a short break at the cold water bay to get some nice refreshment! Back in the harbour we have a cool deco beer with our guests, for the coming season we will prepare a nice sitting area in the harbour - where we also wait for you in the evenings to join us for a drink.

Diving for the experienced divers
We choose the dive sites according to weather conditions and experience level and expectations of our guests. One good thing with our dive sites is, that at nearly every spot we can offer easy shallow and also more demanding deeper dives. We dive in small groups 2 - 4 divers.

DIVE SPOTS

Camel Stone Reef
The Turkish name for that reef is "deve taşı", because it looks under water like a sitting camel. There is no reference, that this place is a historical important place, but we feel, that this place was a former village - the stone formations remind us a lot of roads and houses. Here we see all different kind of small fishes, sometimes also big fish like grouper, barracuda and Jack fish. We like that place, because it offers sometimes really unexpected nice diving experiences, also there is still a big area, which we didn't dive that much and which needs some exploration!

Firnaz Bay
Firnaz Bay is the ideal place for the lunch break. The sandy beach in the bay gives the water a caribean blue colour and invites the discover scuba divers to their first try. Nowhere its deeper than 5-6 meters, however there is a lot to see. The rock garden and huge sandy areas with a lot of different inhabitants and in the same time this environment forgives unexpected ground contact of the diver. Here grow the most different fish species and the youngsters are mostly really curious what we are doing under water and come verily close.

Frenk Bay
Frenk Bay is a very close and often nicely quiet beautiful bay. Also this place was a natural harbour in the lykien time. The fields of amphoras are remains from sunken boats at that time. When we go there at lunch time, it offers a lot to discover for the beginners, amphoras on shallow bottom, a lot of colour and it is possible to find nearly everything there in fish. With the experienced divers we go to the amphora field at the bottom of a 20 meter wall. In the season 05 we saw some remarkable gropers here! In the hot time, especially the swimmers love that place, as the fresh water spring offer a nice cooling system.

Middle Reef
The middle reef is one more diving spot with a lot of facettes. On the shallow top of the reef in 10-15 meters are a lot of potential motives for photographers, especially in summer, when huge swarms of sardelles invite the tunafish teenagers for hunting. We are also impressed by the colourly **bewachsenen*** bizarre rock formations. In the deeper areas we find usually a lot of bigger fish, now and then we meet a turtle and last but not least there are two more huge anchors, one of it in standing position and especially nicely ****bewachsen***. The middle reef is quite close to the harbour and we are happy about the different opportunities that place is offering us, because we can go there in nearly every weather condition.

Snake Island Wall
A extraordinary diving spot, where we can only go in nice weather conditions. The wall goes down to 60 meters and impresses by its ***bewuchs***. If you carry a lamp you could get drunk by colours... Moreover here is big fish nearly guaranteed, we saw here swarms of groupers, huge animally and at least 60 of them.

Three Anchors/Medallion Reef
The original name of this reef is medallion reef. Three years ago Cahit discovered this diving place. In the beginning we always dived to one huge anchor with a impressive chain, which is lying across two rocks like a medallion. One year later we find two more anchors in the same area, now we visits all the anchors with the experienced divers in one dive - and that's why we call that place now three anchors! This place, with its volcanic bottom shape, gives you sometimes the idea to be on the Mars! In the season 05 a trigger fish family had its nest there and especially in autumn time there are regular big schools of bream. The shallow part of the reef starts in 18 meters.

Wreck shallow part
The name of the ship is "Duchess of York" and it was built 1893 for lead transport. It sunk here approximately 70 years ago, when they hit the reef, which caused the explosion of the steam boiler. The ship broke in several pieces and during our dives we make easy and shallow dives to the shallow part of the wreck at 15 - 25 meters. This reef has a really nice top, where we also find scattered pieces of steel, offering nice homes for octopus, moray and more. In early summer this place is the kindergarten of the barracudas and a preferred relaxation place for turtles. Also you find here very nice plants. But look yourself in the gallery ..
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Wreck, deep part
Although we are really diving quite often at this place, it is every time again amazing. When we go down, passing the middle part of the wreck, slowly slowly the shape of the wreck is coming out of the deep blue. It takes a few dives to get a nice understanding of this place. Also you never know, which fish is waiting for you down there .. there is the regular swarm of breams, big groupers and depending on the season huge Jacks. If you ask our guests, which is there favorite dive site - they will probably answer "the wreck deep!".
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DIVE BOAT
This is our bawarian Honig. She is born in 1996 and until we bought her she was working as a blue tour boat. She is 15 meters long and 5.20 large. The motor is a 135 hp Ford machine, allowing a speed of 9 knots, although when the wind is suitable we are using the sail and move in complete silence. Also we have a "Baby Honig", which is equipped with a 2 hp motor. The water tanks take 1200 liter fresh water, the fuel capacity is 500 liters. On our boat we can take 20 guests. Of course we are fully equipped with fire extinguishers and life jackets - the Turkish authorities check all security things really closely!! We have a 20 liter tank pure oxygen and a huge first aid suitcase.

Divers who don't bring their own equipment can choose from our new Mares and Aqualung BCs and regulators. Suits, masks and fins we have in different sizes and style - also of course for non divers who want to do some snorkeling. We provide weights and 10/12 liter steel tanks.
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We changed the boats design a little by adding a stainless steel/Teak wood divers platform, moving the toilet to the deck and making a big saloon and kitchen under deck. We still have two cabins, one for Yasin who is living on the boat in the season and one for ourselves and as storage room. Our sundeck is currently offering comfortable sunbeds for nine people, but we plan to add some more 4 places. In the high season, when the sun is really burning, we provide a sunsail for a relaxed nap after lunch! Our kitchen offers a fully equipped fridge - all drinks at reasonable prices.

We were quite excited, how our Honig will manage in the dive business, but after the first season we are happy to say, that she worked nicely in every weather condition and never let us down.

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