ENJOY, PROTECT, SHOW THE SPANISH UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
ENJOY, PROTECT, SHOW THE SPANISH UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
The Italian freighter Avvenire, called "Marmoler" for the cargo of large blocks of marble that it still conserves in its warehouses, was shipwrecked in May 1971 due to a storm that caused it to run aground on the Montgrí coast. The wreck is approximately one mile from the Punta Treca braços, between 32 and 44 meters deep. His helmet is whole, perched on a mud bottom in position ...
It was originally a German tall tugboat ("Pellworn"), which participated in the Second World War. At the end of this he became part of the United States Navy. And in 1980 it was bought by a Panamanian company, which used it in oil exploration but also for drug smuggling. Until in 1985 the Spanish Customs Police captured him off the coast ...
In the early morning of December 11, 1917, with the First World War underway, the Italian liner Cavour that had left Genoa two days earlier bound for Buenos Aires had a violent collision with the "Cabrera", one of the ships of vigilance that accompanied him to protect him from attack by enemy ships. It seems that the strong prevailing winds were joined by darkness as a reason for ...
In September 1963, this high-altitude tug of the French Navy, already decommissioned, was being towed from an Algerian port to a French midday port to be scrapped. The force of the north wind broke the line that connected it to the ship that was towing it, drifting until it found the coast of L´Escala where it ran aground. Later it was dynamited. Today, close to the ...
The Dragonera, a 65 m long freighter, split at some points, which lies on a bottom of mud and sand between 14 and 23 m, and in which the presence of bream and bream in some of its holes stands out, was sunk in 1994 in the Underwater Park of Tarragona. This park, managed by SES (Societat d'Exploracions Submarines de Tarragona), is located opposite the Port of Tarragona in ...
Wooden fishing boat, about 15 meters long, sunk about 300 meters from the coast, in front of the Miracle point. With the remains piled up on a sandy bottom, at a depth of 15 m, the wreck is quite deteriorated, but the machines and the chimney are very clearly distinguished. Inside the cracks and corners formed by the wooden structures you can ...
Initially a ferry, mainly dedicated to the transport of trains, which served between the Italian cities of San Giovanni and Messina, since it changed hands in 1987, the Reggio Messina was destined to serve as a floating party hall in the port of Barcelona until that due to its poor condition it ended up sinking in the same port facilities. After that, it was bought by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He refloated it, ...
The Saint-Prosper, known as the “Petrolero”, as it was carrying 300 tons of crude oil in drums, was a French-flagged steam merchant ship that sank on March 8, 1939 in the Bay of Roses, when it hit a underwater mine. Its captain decided to stop over in the Gulf of Roses to wait for a storm to pass. But I was unaware that it had been mined during the War ...