Tiboda

Libya’s 2000-kilometer-long coastline offers a unique opportunity to divers and underwater explorers to see what has never been seen before, including a large number of wrecks, sunken archaeological sites, and gold, supposedly lost to pirates and ships from the Second World War. Some tour operators offer cruises along the coast, with onboard diving facilities.  The most popular diving destinations include Janzour, Tajoura, Zwara and sunken Tiboda.

Tiboda is currently not open for public viewing without a written permission from the Libyan Board of Tourism and Traditional Industries. We can arrange tours to the site only if visitors can secure a permit.

Tiboda is situated about 10km to the west of Zwara city, and sits about seven to ten meters under water. Is not yet fully explored nor properly catalogued, as it was discovered only recently, and therefore provides a unique opportunity to serious explorers to unravel some of the past mysteries of the area. It close proximity to Zwara city may shed more light about the ancient history of Zwara, before its ancient coast was claimed by the sea.

It has stone columns and building structures, which are taught to have been built thousands of years ago, and may have been once a sea port or a major coastal city. It is not far from the Tunisian Shatt al-Jarid, the present remains of the ancient Berber Lake Tritonis, where Zeus was struck by a terrible headache and Athena was born.