Balkans
Shpella e Haxhi Aliut (Karaburun)
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Information only: a sea cave in the Karaburun-Sazan marine park. We found no dive centre with its own site that dives here; ask.
- CertificationCavern
Diving and fills
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Fills nearby
- Scuba Diving OtrantoAir; ask about nitrox and trimix
Now at Shpella e Haxhi Aliut (Karaburun)
The dive
A large sea cave: ~30 m long, 10–12 m wide and ~18 m high. Between 2003 and 2005 researchers found four underwater caves at the tip of the peninsula, with colder water below 3 m.
Profile and sections
A large sea cave: ~30 m long, 10–12 m wide and ~18 m high. Between 2003 and 2005 researchers found four underwater caves at the tip of the peninsula, with colder water below 3 m.
- Depth and profile
- Depth: ask
- Configuration
- Sea cavern dive.
Who can dive where
- At least Cavern
- Configurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
- Configuration unknown — research beforehand
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
Only by boat from Vlorë, near Cape Gjuhëz on the Karaburun peninsula. A natural monument in the Karaburun-Sazan marine park.
Around Shpella e Haxhi Aliut (Karaburun)
Fills1 fill station · 76 km
Scuba Diving Otranto
Via del Porto 1, 73028 Otranto (LE)
Air; ask about nitrox and trimix
Open all year according to a listing; ask
SSI centre at the harbour with daily day and night dives from three RIBs (2× 7.4 m, 1× 10 m); technical training incl. trimix and rebreather. Lists caves among its dive sites — ask which.
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