Andreas Andrikopoulos

Cave Diver

Andreas is a Technical Diver who is passionate about exploring caves and historical shipwrecks.

He started diving in 2001 at the age of 24 and has never stopped since. Water is his natural habitat, and diving is his way of life.

His journey in the world of Technical Diving and closed-circuit diving started in 2005 having now secured all relevant certifications.

He has taken part in a multitude of dives and mapping exercises in the most challenging caves of Greece and has explored some of the most famous historical wrecks of the Aegean and Ionian seas.

He has offered his services pro bono to the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) to assist in the recovery of the Mirage 2000 fighter jet from a depth of 80m in Samos in 2011.

He was one of the founding members of Ghost Diving Greece (formerly Ghost Fishing), which launched in 2014.

In 2016 and 2017 he participated in the expeditions to the Amfitriti Cave and in the creation of the Top2Bottom Diving Team of which he was a founding member.

He was invited to the international conference Tek Dive Europe 2017 in Belgium, where the first public screening of the documentary “AMPHITRITE” took place.

Then in 2018, and in the context of an ambitious project filming a series of caves in the Peloponnese for the creation of the documentary 4 Caves – 4 Seasons “Journey to the Earth’s Veins”, he undertook the writing of the script, while he actively participated in the realization of the underwater filming and the implementation of the project as a whole.

The film began its festival run in July 2024, winning major awards and honors worldwide.

In 2020 Andreas began his collaboration with the Aegean Rebreath organization, participating in a series of actions for the protection of Greece’s marine ecosystems.

In 2021 he organized the team’s mission to the island of Leros where the “Leros Dive Project” took place. The result of this effort was the creation of the documentary “1943 – The Battle of Leros, Diving into History”, which brings to light some unknown details of a series of shipwrecks from that period.

In 2022 he completed the school of Exploratory and Sports Speleology (A level) with the SELAS Caving Club thus opening a new field of endeavour.

Today, he actively participates in the work of the Top2Bottom Diving Team, which focuses on the systematic recording of our underwater cultural heritage and the promotion of the geological history of Greece.

In his daily life he is a production planning manager in an industrial plant.