What Scuba Diving Kaş ACTUALLY Looks Like

In June of 2026, I spent one week in Kaş, a small coastal town on Turkey's southwest Mediterranean coast.

It turned out to be one of the most underrated diving destinations I've found in Europe to date.

I dove five sites across four boat dives as part of my complete Turkey scuba diving guide.

The diving is solid, the prices are very fair, and the town itself makes it easy to stay longer than planned!

In this article, I'll cover the best dive sites in Kaş, diving conditions, the marine life you'll see, how to get there, and everything else you need to plan your trip.

Best Dive Sites in Kaş

For the entirety of my trip to Kaş, I went diving with 300BAR dive center, a local operation that guided me through Kaş's best sites and helped fill in the gaps on everything I didn't get to dive myself.

Kaş has 20+ named dive sites. I personally visited five, and the rest of this list comes from firsthand recommendations from the 300BAR team.

I'll cover my own dives first, then the ones worth knowing about even if I didn't hit them.

Best Overall Dive: Kaş Canyon

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Starting off, we have the Kaş Canyon dive site. The owner of 300BAR dive center was very adamant this is the best dive site in the town.

Of the five dive sites I did, this was my favorite as well.

It's done as boat dive off the five islands area outside of Kaş.

On the dive you'll hit various caverns, a narrow canyon with cave formations, and a 1968 shipwreck sitting at the bottom.

The underwater topography here is stunning.

My guide pointed out that while some divers start the dive dropping directly at the island, the better approach is to surface swim toward the top and around the backside, and descending from there.

From inside, looking straight up reveals light breaking through from the surface.

The canyon itself is a narrow gorge with two steep walls dropping to around 20 meters. Watch for current here.

Following the right wall out of the canyon leads to the Dimitris, a steel freighter that ran into the islands in 1968.

The wreck runs from 27 to 42 meters. On the way down at around 30 meters, look for an underwater memorial to Gökhan Türe, a diver the local community credits with a great deal.

Locally the Dimitris is called the Cotton Wreck, after the cargo that scattered across the bottom when she went down.

Best Photo Dive: Batigi Tank

Next up, we have the Batigi military tank.

It sits in shallow depth, fully accessible to Open Water divers, and is one of the more photogenic dives in Kaş.

This is how I accomplished five sites in four dives!

Best Wreck Dive: Altuğ Shipwreck

The Altuğ is one of Kaş's lesser-known wreck dives, and on the same dive there's a sunken Cessna-type plane sitting nearby on the seafloor. I dove this site on the same day as the Batigi tank, as they are located close together.

It was a commercial vessel being towed to a marina for routine maintenance.

While under tow, the lines snapped.

Without propulsion or steering, the boat lost control and sank to its current resting place on the seafloor, where it now lies on its port side.

Most Overhyped Wreck: B47

The B47 Wreck is probably one of the more famous dive sites in Kaş.

However, 300 Bar Dive Center said to me that while it is an interesting dive for social media, there's not a ton of reef around it.

There's also no other dive sites that are that great around it. I don't want to say you're wasting a day if you go here, but outside of the plane, there's not going to be a ton to see between both dives.

The wreck is fully penetrable and covered in lionfish.

It's decommissioned WWII-era C-47 Dakota, with a wingspan of 29 meters and a length of 20 meters, was deliberately sunk here at 22m.

Sites I Didn't Dive

Kaş has over 30 named dive sites and I got through five of them in four dives. These are the ones I did not dive, so I cannot rank them or tell you what they are like, only what they are known for. The B47 in the section above belongs on this list too.

Uluburun Archaeopark. A full scale replica of the Bronze Age Uluburun wreck sitting at around 50 feet (15 m), laid out with imitation amphorae, stone anchors and copper ingots. The original was found by a Turkish sponge diver in 1982 and dates to the 14th century BC, and its cargo is now in the Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum. It is shallow enough for any certification level, and it is the site I most regret missing.

Besmi Island. Whole and broken amphorae with stone and metal anchors at around 130 feet (40 m), usually with some current running. It comes up most often as the best underwater archaeology in the Kaş area.

Flying Fish Reef. A sloping reef where the bottom drops away to around 200 feet (60 m), with old amphorae scattered down the slope. An Italian SM.79 aircraft lies here at 233 feet (71 m), which is technical diving and well outside recreational limits.

Marine Life You'll See Here

I want to start this off by staying, if you come to Kaş expecting to see thriving reefs or schools of fish, you'll likely be disappointed.

The Mediterranean is extremely overfished.

I'll start off by showing you everything that I saw, and then we'll go into some other sightings that are known to happen here but I didn't personally see.

Dive Operators in Kaş

I dove the whole week with 300BAR dive center, and they also filled in the gaps on the sites I did not get to myself. All the diving here is boat diving, so whoever you book with, you are getting picked up and run out to the sites rather than walking in.

Kaş has a lot of dive centers for a town this size and most of them sit around the marina, so it is easy to walk the front and compare. Sub-Aqua, Nautilus, Barakuda, Kaş Diving and Deepist all operate here alongside 300BAR. I only dove with one of them, so I cannot compare them for you.

What Diving Kaş Costs

Expect around $100 for two dives with gear and lunch included. That is what I paid with 300BAR in June 2026, and it was not a published rate card, so treat it as a ballpark rather than a fixed price.

For the Mediterranean that is good value. A day of boat diving in Kaş runs well below what you would pay at comparable European destinations, and it is most of why I would tell people to come here over the more obvious spots.

Diving Conditions in Kaş

June through October is considered Kaş's high season. Water temperatures peak around 82°F (28°C) in August and hold warmth into October.

September and October are worth considering if you want summer conditions with fewer tourists.

February and March are the low season. Many operators close during those months, and water temperatures drop to around 61°F (16°C).

How to Get to Kaş

Kaş sits on Turkey's southwest Mediterranean coast in Antalya province.

If you're flying in, both Antalya and Dalaman airports are your closest options. Antalya is the more common arrival point but expect a 3-hour-plus bus ride into Kaş from there.

I came from Tekirova, which was about a 2-hour bus ride.