Dive site: Nisida, Italy

As a lot of you know one of the best beach entry dives here in Naples, Italy is the dive site known as “Nisida”.

Nisida is a fun place to dive mostly because of the short distance to two underwater towers which house everything from sea anemones to stone fish. I have yet to dive there once and not see something new every time. This is also the site where a lot of open water courses are taught due to the sandy bottom and even 35 – 45 feet depth.

Here is a Google Earth image of the dive site:

As you can see on the bottom of the page are the GPS coordinates to this dive site. If you are a member of NATO or the American base you can park your car right across from the beach entry and suit up there. Then all you have to do is throw a wave to the guard and he will open the gate for you and you are in business.

Here is a depth sounding chart to help you plan your recreational dive. Note that all the depths are in meters:

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Did you already know about Nisida? Have some fun SCUBA stories to tell? Are you busting at the seams to tell someone about the eel you you took a picture of at the bottom of the rocks?

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