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With over than 30 years of experience, Scubakreta welcomes you to Crete!

Located in Hersonissos,Crete, inside the Nana Golden Beach Hotel - Scubakreta is a 5* PADI Diving Center providing high quality diving services for all levels of divers, from experienced divers to beginners who wish to take their first breath underwater! Located in Crete in the town of Hersonissos inside the Nana Golden Beach Hotel - Scubakreta is a PADI and SSI Diving Center providing high quality diving services. We offer guided dives for all levels of certified divers, PADI and SSI certification courses, as well as diving introductory programs for those who have never dived before and want to take their first breath underwater.

22/07/2026

🐟Wildlife Wednesday🐟
Meet the Salema Porgy (Sarpa salpa)
Recognizable by its shimmering golden stripes, this peaceful fish is often seen swimming in large schools over rocky reefs and seagrass meadows.
Fun fact: despite its shiny appearance, it's a vegetarian! Salema porgies spend most of their day grazing on algae and seagrass, helping keep the reef healthy. 🌿

15/07/2026

🌼Wildlife Wednesday🌼
Flower or animal? 🤔
Meet the Feather Duster Worm! Its colorful crown isn't a flower at all, it's a set of feathery tentacles used to catch tiny food particles drifting by.

Fun fact: if it senses danger, it'll disappear into its tube in the blink of an eye!

01/07/2026

🐚 Wildlife Wednesday 🐚

Meet the Mediterranean Triton 🔱

One of the Mediterranean's largest sea snails, this beautiful mollusc carries its home wherever it goes. That's what we call underwater van life! 🚐

24/06/2026

⭐ Wildlife Wednesday ⭐

Five arms. Hundreds of tiny tube feet. No brain.🧠

Meet the Spiny Starfish, one of the Mediterranean's most fascinating reef dwellers. Instead of a brain, it relies on a network of nerves spread throughout its body to sense its surroundings and coordinate movement.

03/06/2026

🌊 Wildlife Wednesday 🐟
Meet the Madeira Rockfish (Scorpaena maderensis)
Masters of camouflage, these ambush predators can sit perfectly still among the rocks, becoming almost invisible until it's time to strike. It's favorite trick? Convincing divers it's just another rock... until it moves👀

Have you ever spotted one before it spotted you?

06/05/2026

🐢Wildlife Wednesday🐢
A quiet moment beneath the surface…
A sea turtle glides through the light, its silhouette framed by the sun above ☀️
These ancient mariners have been roaming our oceans for over 100 million years, navigating vast distances with incredible precision.
A reminder of how timeless the underwater world really is 💙

29/04/2026

🪸Wildlife Wednesday🪸
Not all yellow sponges are the same…
This is the Antlers Sponge Coral (Axinella polypoides), often mistaken for the Yellow Tube Sponge from a few posts ago...but notice the difference: instead of smooth tubes, it grows in branching, antler-like shapes.

And who’s stealing the spotlight? A little baby lionfish, aligning itself perfectly in front of the antlers 💛

08/04/2026

🐍 Wildlife Wednesday 🐍
Meet the Moray Eel, the sneakiest predator of the Aegean Sea! These nocturnal hunters spend their days hiding in crevices and holes, then strike fast at unsuspecting prey at night.
Fun fact: Morays have a second set of “pharyngeal jaws”, to help them swallow their catch!

01/04/2026

🦞Wildlife Wednesday🦞
Meet the spiny lobster, a nocturnal explorer of the reef 🌙
Fun fact: no big claws here! Instead, they use their long antennae to sense the world and even make sounds to scare off predators.

25/03/2026

🐟 Wildlife Wednesday 🐟
Say hello to the Grouper, often the star of our dives! These robust predators are masters of stealth: they hide among rocks and suck in prey whole with a powerful suction‑feeding strike instead of chasing it down. 💨🐠
Many species can change colour to blend with their surroundings, helping them ambush prey and stay camouflaged. 🌈

Address

Hotel Nana Golden Beach, Hersonissos 700 14
Chersoniso
70014

Website

http://scubakreta.com/

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