Late spring to autumn is the main season, when the sea is warm; centres in the south dive for longer.
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Rules & safety
Only what the authorities' own texts say — each point links its source, read on 1 Oct 2026. Our wording is a summary; the linked text is what counts.
Dive centres need an authorisation certificate from the Turkish Underwater Sports Federation (TSSF) to train divers and take them diving. It is valid for one year and must be displayed on the dive boat and at the centre.Source: Official Gazette 26993 (10 Sep 2008) — TSSF scuba diving regulation
The sites below are the ones the provincial culture and tourism directorates and district governorships name on their own pages — 47 in all. None of these pages gives positions, so there is no map; your dive centre chooses the site for the day and the conditions.
Kaş–Kekova
The Ministry of Environment's Kaş–Kekova booklet counts 28 dive sites in the area, with Beş Adalar and Kanyon first among them, and gives the dive season as April to January. The Uluburun wreck (14th century BC), 8.5 km south-east of Kaş, has been excavated and its finds are in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology; it is not presented as a dive site.
The Antalya Culture and Tourism Directorate names: a French military transport ship at 20–32 m at the entrance of Antalya harbour; the "San Didier" wreck off the yacht harbour, which needs a permit from Antalya Governorship and the marine police; the "Paris" wreck at 33 m off Kemer marina; the Inner Islands off Tekirova (cave diving); the Patara canyon, a lighthouse wall that drops from 11 m to 132 m, and Öksüz Ada at Kalkan; and a B-24 bomber wreck at 200 m off Manavgat, which needs a special permit.
The Muğla Culture and Tourism Directorate's diving page lists these Fethiye sites, with depth and level notes (no positions are given). "Dalyan Bay" and "Aquarium Bay" here are dive sites in the Gulf of Fethiye, not the Dalyan river.
The same page lists these Bodrum sites and says that, under an Official Gazette decision of 24 September 2001, the Bodrum peninsula is open to tourist and sport scuba diving except between Gümüşlük and Yalıkavak.
The Balıkesir Culture and Tourism Directorate calls Ayvalık, with its 22 islets, one of the dive areas most preferred by divers, with coral reefs and 41 dive zones. It does not name the sites. The red corals of the Deli Mehmet shoal are mentioned only in the press and by businesses, so we do not list it.
The Gökçeada Underwater Park lies between Kaleköy and Kuzu Limanı, along the shore between Yelkenkaya and Çiftlik Bay, with underwater cave entrances. Diving there needs a permit.
Gökçeada Underwater Park has a core zone and a buffer zone: swimming and fishing are allowed in the buffer zone at Yıldız Bay; elsewhere in the park fishing is banned and diving needs a permit.Source: Gökçeada District Governorship — Gökçeada Underwater Park — checked 1 Oct 2026
The gulf has been a Special Environmental Protection Area since December 2010 and has an approved management plan; the pages we saved give no diving rules for it.
At the Siren Rocks off Foça, where monk seals are often seen, cruising by boat, anchoring, diving, fishing and collecting sea life are prohibited, as is camping on Orak Island and entering the caves the seals use.Source: Foça District Governorship — the Mediterranean monk seal — checked 1 Oct 2026
Not summarised: An older Ministry of Culture and Tourism regulation on sport scuba diving (depth limits, permits for foreign divers) is still on the ministry's legislation page, but we could not confirm that it is still in force next to the 2008 and 2020 regulations, so we do not summarise it. Source: Ministry of Culture and Tourism — older regulation on sport scuba diving in Turkish waters
