Greece
Karavomilos
- Max depth18 m
- CertificationIntro to cave (first section)
- Water temperature≈ ~14 °Cestimated, no reports yet
Diving and fills
Dive here with
What it looks like
Subterranean Karst System in Kefalonia (Karavomilos) 🔦 Σπηλαιοκατάδυση στον Καραβόμυλο στην Κεφαλονιά | KARAVOMILOS CAVE DIVING Karavomilos Lake 07/04/2015 (Cave diving in Kefalonia) Karavomilos Spring Kefalonia with Rick Witter Karavomilos cave
All 5 videos and posts
Videos and posts
From other divers, via YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. They only load when you click; after that, Google's or Meta's privacy rules apply.
Subterranean Karst System in Kefalonia (Karavomilos) 🔦 Σπηλαιοκατάδυση στον Καραβόμυλο στην Κεφαλονιά | KARAVOMILOS CAVE DIVING Karavomilos Lake 07/04/2015 (Cave diving in Kefalonia) Karavomilos Spring Kefalonia with Rick Witter Karavomilos cave
Videos shown with permission from the channel @addicted2h2o ↗
Search for more onYouTube ↗Instagram ↗Facebook ↗
Other people's footage, not advice: how someone else dives here says nothing about what suits your team. Dive within your training.
The dive
Visibility is up to 40 m and silt is no problem; the water is ~14 °C. You see many eels, and large formations in the last chamber.
Profile and sections
Visibility is up to 40 m and silt is no problem; the water is ~14 °C. You see many eels, and large formations in the last chamber. The cave runs under a church, the main road and part of the village, with only a few metres of rock above it. Martyn Farr called it 'one of the best recreational cave-dives in Europe'.
This brackish karst spring brings the water of the Argostoli sinkholes, ~15 km further west, back to the surface (dye test 1963). It is a geosite of the Kefalonia-Ithaca UNESCO Geopark and was dived by Greek teams in 2017, 2018 and 2021.
- Depth and profile
- Sump of ~240–260 m, average -7 m, max -15 m (Addicted2H2O) to -18 m (Grafas). Just inside the entrance two small side caves; at ~130 m the first large chamber, ~70 m further a second, ending in a small chamber with air. According to Martyn Farr the passage is mostly ~20 m wide and nearly as high; Grafas reports two large air chambers.
- Intro level
- The passage to the first large chamber at ~130 m: a single wide passage at an average depth of 7 m.
- Configuration
- Wide, shallow passage: all configurations.
- DPV: Not DPV-suitable (estimate)
- Short cave (~250 m): no scooter needed.
Who can dive where
- At least Full cave
- Cavern zone / easier part: at least Intro to cave
- Configurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
- Goes down to 18 m (trimix or deco may be needed)
This is how the planner decides who in your team may dive this cave. Rules your own trip adds (organizer, a mail, the AI) show with your trip.
How to get there
In the village of Karavomilos, 2.5 km north-west of Sami: a round pond ~50 m across, ~80 m from the sea and freely accessible. The pond is ~1 m deep; the entrance is on its west side, where it deepens to 3–4 m (divernet: ~50 m swim from the mill-race). The pond is a special ecosystem: don't linger there. Aquatic in Agia Efimia (5 minutes' drive) guides the cave.
Around Karavomilos
FillsNo fill station known nearby
Other sites1 within 1 km
Going to Greece with your team?
Marcel finds the sites that match your team's certifications.
Plan a trip