Kyrenia

Hi from Underwater Journeys! Today we're freediving twenty-three metres down to the Kyrenia... a wreck you can only find if you know where to look. Out here, there's only open water... and one yellow buoy.

But look down. Through the ripples, a dark shape starts to appear.

With a little wind on the water, she shifts and blurs... as if she isn't quite ready to be seen.

And all of this, just a few hundred metres from the beaches of Ayia Napa.

We're off Pernera, on the south-east coast of Cyprus... a short boat ride from Ayia Napa harbour.

One deep breath... and we follow the line down. She shares her name with Kyrenia, an old harbour town on the island's north coast.

She was once a Greek navy boat. The Ministry of Defence gave her to Ayia Napa... and in 2015, she was cleaned and sunk on purpose, to become an artificial reef.

Her deck is still easy to read. Hatches, rings and railings... all slowly furred with growth.

Twenty-three metres down, she sits upright on the white sand. Almost thirty metres of hull, deck and mast. From the sand, her bow still looks ready to sail.

Eleven years on, she belongs to the sea.

A torch in the dark...

and a lionfish, trying not to be seen.

Inside, the light falls through empty doorways and windows.

This is a dive for certified freedivers. We never dive alone, and we always come back up together.

Back at the surface... breathe, rest... and look down. She's still there.

Kyrenia is waiting for you.

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