ST DIDIER (PROBABLY) - Kas & Kekova
The St Didier, or what we strongly suspect is the St Didier, offers a proper historical dive in Kas. This steamship, built in 1920, met its end in 1941, bombed by British aircraft. She’s a big girl, almost 100 metres long, and lies broken but still impressive at a maximum depth of 15 metres. You’ll spend your dive exploring sections of hull, engine room machinery, and twisted metal that now serve as apartment blocks for Mediterranean groupers and schools of damselfish. It’s a compelling site, steeped in wartime history, and perfect for wreck enthusiasts who enjoy a shallower, longer bottom time to really soak it all in.
- Location
- Kas & Kekova, Turkey, Mediterranean & Europe
- Coordinates
- 36.884167, 30.699167
- Type
- wreck
- Maximum Depth
- 15m
Nearby Dive Sites in Kas & Kekova
- airplane (wreck)
- Airplane Wreck - 55-60m (wreck)
- Antalya akra - 15m
- Antalya Doruk Scuba Diving Center - 16m
- Butterfly Valley
- Canyon
- Canyon - 10-30m
- Coastguard Wreck (wreck)
- DC3 (wreck)
- Dilvarda West - 10-25m (reef)
- DIMITRIOS M - 10m (wreck)
- Duchess of York (wreck)
- Düden Selalesi -Water Fall - 15m
- Fener Kulesi
- Fenre
Nearest Dive Centres to ST DIDIER (PROBABLY)
Marine Life in Kas & Kekova
Home to 17 recorded species including 6 reef fish, 5 whales & dolphins, 2 seagrass & algae, 1 other, 1 sea urchins, 1 sea snails & nudibranchs.
Notable Species
- loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)
- Cowfish (Tursiops truncatus) - Whales & Dolphins
- Blue-white Dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) - Whales & Dolphins
- Marbled Spinefoot (Siganus rivulatus) - Reef Fish
- Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) - Whales & Dolphins
- Studded Pufferfish (Torquigener flavimaculosus) - Reef Fish
- Redcoat (Sargocentron rubrum) - Reef Fish
- Long-spined sea urchin (Diadema setosum) - Sea Urchins
- Red lionfish (Pterois miles) - Reef Fish
- Three-tooth Cavoline (Cavolinia tridentata) - Sea Snails & Nudibranchs
- Mediterranean tapeweed (Posidonia oceanica) - Seagrass & Algae
- Red coral (Corallium rubrum) - Soft Corals
- Species code: Hs (Halophila stipulacea) - Seagrass & Algae
- Silver-cheeked Toadfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus) - Reef Fish
- Cuvier's Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris) - Whales & Dolphins
- Yellow Barracuda (Sphyraena viridensis) - Reef Fish
- Grey Dolphin (Grampus griseus) - Whales & Dolphins