Archive for the ‘Wreck Diving’ Category
The Zenobia, a Swedish roll-on-roll-off ferry, was fully loaded with 104 trailers and trucks when she sunk on her maiden voyage to Cyprus in June 1980, off Larnaca’s fishing harbour. The wreck of The Zenobia is now lying on her port side at 42 meters, 1.5km from the shore. The sea bed in at a depth on 42m, and the top of the wreck is 16m below the water surface. The water visibility is up to 50m, with the temperature ranging from 16oC in the winter to 27oC in summer Read more…
Scapa Flow, the body of deep water surrounded by Scotland’s Orkney Islands, has been a sheltered anchorage for war ships since at least Viking times. It has also witnessed some of the greatest and most tragic naval events of two World Wars. Today the Scotland dive site is a magnet for experienced divers and naval history buffs drawn to its battleship graveyard and its famous WWI shipwrecks. Read more…
Croatia has acquired a reputation for excellent wreck-diving, the best example of which is probably the 85m-long Baron Gautsch. An Austro-Hungarian passenger ship known locally as the ‘Little Titanic of the Adriatic’, it struck a mine en route to Trieste on 13 August 1914, and sank with the loss of 69 lives. Read more…