The submarine Cave of Elephants is located in Drepano area of Akrotiri, in Chania prefecture and out of Souda Bay. The cave was discovered in 1999 by the snorkeler Manolis Efthymakis and was then showed in January 2000 in Star TV by the professional diver and filmmaker G. Tzanakis. Thus, Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology, in collaboration with Creta’s Diving Center, organized the first mission to explore the cave on 31th March 2000. The findings were fantastic: apart from the breathtaking beauty of the cave, bones of unknown elephant species were also found.
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