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St Paul's Caverns (Lindos)

  • Max depth18 m
  • CertificationOpen water / no overhead
  • Water temperature≈ 17–30 °C, varies with the seasonestimated, no reports yet
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  • Lepia Dive CentreAir and nitrox, also for visitors; no trimix
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The dive

A complex of a cavern and swim-throughs below the Acropolis of Lindos, with visibility of 20 m+. Practical: Lepia also dives here with those who don't (yet) qualify for the Great Cave of Lindos.

Profile and sections

A complex of a cavern and swim-throughs below the Acropolis of Lindos, with visibility of 20 m+.

Practical: Lepia also dives here with those who don't (yet) qualify for the Great Cave of Lindos.

Source: Lepia Dive Centre – Dive spots ↗
Depth and profile
Max -18 m.
Configuration
Sizes of the swim-throughs not published; the centre takes Open Water divers.
DPV: Not DPV-suitable (estimate)
Short cavern and swim-throughs: no scooter.
Who can dive where
  • CaveAt least Open water / no overhead
  • Whole caveConfigurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
  • Whole caveConfiguration unknown — research beforehand · doesn't decide who may dive
  • Whole caveGoes down to 18 m (trimix or deco may be needed) · doesn't decide who may dive

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.

Source: Lepia Dive Centre – Dive spots ↗

How to get there

Shore dive (by car) below the rock of the Acropolis of Lindos; Lepia Dive Centre guides it. Exact entry not published.

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Around St Paul's Caverns (Lindos)

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  • Lepia Dive Centre

    Pefkos, 85107 Rhodes

    Air and nitrox, also for visitors; no trimix

    Daily; hours differ between sources — ask

    PADI centre on the coast at Pefkos, ~10 min from Lindos. Dives the Great Cave of Lindos by RIB (on Tuesdays), only with Advanced divers and after a first dive with one of its instructors. Also cavern and sidemount courses and PADI TecRec (Tec 40/45/50, April–June and October only). EANx €5 per cylinder (2026).

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Sources

Source: Lepia Dive Centre – Dive spots ↗

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Certification requirements, configurations and trimix depths are estimates for planning. Always check them locally and dive within your training. Compiled from web research (cave pages of the Greek teams T2B, Grafas Diving and Addicted2H2O, wannadive, Wikipedia, Greek news reports 2015–2026, summaries of diving laws 3409/2005 and 4688/2020; Sept 2026); for Rhodes the dive centres Lepia and DiveMed, Scuba Hellas, Tribloo and Duikersgids (Oct 2026); Lepia Dive Centre (message, Oct 2026); for Crete and the Ionian Islands Grafas Diving, Addicted2H2O, divernet (Martyn Farr, 2018), showcaves.com, cretanbeaches.com and the pages of the dive centres Aquatic, Achilleon, Blue Adventures and Eurodivers (Oct 2026). Sea caverns at Lindos and on Kefalonia and Ithaca from the pages of Lepia and Aquatic (Oct 2026). For Paros the pages of Paros Divers (amphitritecave.com, parosdivers.com), T2B, Addicted2H2O and the municipality of Paros; for Drakos–Selinitsa in the Messinian Mani Addicted2H2O, Grafas Diving, showcaves.com, the German Wikipedia and the journals of the Northern Pennine Club (1982) and Cambridge Underground (1983) (Nov 2026). The springs of Polydrosos, Kolethra and Ladonas from Addicted2H2O (also by e-mail, Nov 2026), Grafas Diving, allovergreece.com, Amazing Evia and travel.gr (Nov 2026). Pins from T2B, wannadive, showcaves, OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia (see each site); ~ = estimate. Rules change — check locally.