ENJOY, PROTECT, SHOW THE SPANISH UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
ENJOY, PROTECT, SHOW THE SPANISH UNDERWATER CULTURAL HERITAGE
Updated list in alphabetical order of the wrecks that are being entered in the database that makes up the viewer associated with the project.
Fishing boat of Basque origin sunk in the winter of 1986 after running aground against the shallows known as “La Negra”. Located between the Estelas Islands and the Cíes Islands on a sand and rock bottom, between 24 and 38 meters deep, almost completely lying on its port side. This wreck gives shelter to large congers and innumerable fish of different species. Steel stern colonized by various species ...
Panamanian cargo ship aground on March 9, 1982 at the mouth of the Ría de Pontevedra. The wreck is located on a sandbar at a maximum depth of 15 meters with abundant spider crabs and shoals of pout between the plates. Various sources
Spanish coal ship sunk in 1961 when, after landing on the island of Sálvora, it was taken to beach a nearby beach. The wreck is intact, fully rigged. Among its tenants are colonies of cnidarians, lobsters, spider crabs, crabs, pouts, and an abundance of conger eels. The depth at which it is found (between 33 and 40 meters), with poor visibility (3-4 meters), strong currents and the presence of remains of fishing gear ...
The magnificent Alfonso XII steamer, of the Compañía Transatlántica, when it was built (in 1875) was the largest steamer afloat with the Spanish flag. He left the port of Cádiz with merchandise, passengers, soldiers destined for the Cuban garrison and ten boxes with a value of 500,000 gold dollars for payment and maintenance of the military forces based in that square. But after having anchored in the Port ...
Cargo ship with the Panamanian flag chartered by a British broker shot down by Franco's naval forces off the Cantabrian coast, near Laredo Bay, during the Spanish civil war. He was well established by the national intelligence service as an enforcer of the blockade to carry cargoes to the Republican ports of the North zone. The executing Francoist ship was the "Galerna". This was a fishing boat captured by the side ...
Reinforced bulk carrier for the transport of ore owned by Marítima Antares, which on July 14, 1986, during a voyage with cargo of 12,000 tons of iron ore powder, after half an hour leaving the Port of La Luz, lost the steering wheel. He headed straight for the coast of La Isleta, where he ran aground on a rock about 900 meters north of the ...
At a great depth, about 91 meters, in the vicinity of the Ría de La Coruña, the remains of the Dutch freighter Anna have been found since 19 September 1969. On the route from Teignmouth (England) to Genova (Italy), transporting 900 Tons of Chinese porcelain powder, when it began to list and called for help. The German tugboat "Océanic" and the fishing boats "Pilar de Gracia" and "Costa ...
The Spanish freighter Antarctico ran aground on October 6, 1959 west of Las Quebrantas at the entrance to Santander, when it made the route from Lobito (Angola) to Santander and was transporting 5,000 tons of manganese. After repeated rescue attempts in the port, it was finally split in two by a storm on October 25 and the force of the sea began to undo the unfortunate ship that ended by ...
Iron fishing boat that the sea in the background pushed against the bass of the Carallones. It is in perfect condition. Easy Immersion. It is shallow (13m) and has good visibility. Source: divingislascies.com
This ship loaded marble dust from Puerto de la Garrufa (Almería) and its destination was to unload in Puebla del Camariñal (La Coruña). Rudder problems and low visibility caused the ship to run aground in “Las Lobeiras” during a storm. The Ribeira fishing vessel "San Ramón" managed to help the entire crew and there was no loss of human life. At a depth between 14 and 25 meters, in ...
Sinking of a steamer: "According to news that we were able to acquire yesterday, on the 16th, sailing through Cabo de Gata, at around 5:30 in the afternoon, the Czechoslovakian steamer" Arna ", with a Prague registration, collided with a Laja , opening up an important road for him. The ship took a few minutes to sink. Given the seriousness of the accident, neither the captain nor the crew could take the boats or ...
Carguero de Surnave, S.A. who was sailing from the south, when he suffered a fire on board, in the stern structure, several miles from Arguineguin. The trailer that came at the request of the captain to take it to port, was unable to save it from sinking. Vertical sinking that later settled on the starboard side. Keep the warehouses and superstructures in good condition. It has a crack that runs to ...
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 ...
On August 22, 1909, around six in the afternoon, in Baja del Griego, next to the Jandía Lighthouse, the "Ballester" sank after colliding with it, opening a waterway and losing its rudder , being left without government and adrift. He was making the return journey from the Port of Las Palmas to Barcelona, with a load of scrap iron….
In June 1589 the city of Vigo was sacked by the English under the famous Drake. There they were surprised by a storm from the south that caused two of their small boats to wreck on the north coast of the estuary. They were immediately set on fire by the neighbors, to prevent their refloating. Currently only two groups of two guns remain. The remains have been heavily looted. Source: Yago Abilleira Crespo
In the middle of World War II, a couple of French patrol boats tried to apprehend the German merchant ships anchored in the Ría de Vigo. On the night of January 6 to January 1940, the fog caused the "Barsac" to get too close to the coast. 7 dead and 10 missing. Very scrapped. Armament: 4 100mm cannons, 2 37mm cannons, 2 8mm antiaircraft machine guns, depth charges….
The light cruiser of the Spanish navy Blas de Lezo during naval maneuvers in June 1932, off Finisterre, when it was sailing between the coast and the shoal of O'Centolo, collided with one of the two stone spiers existing there, not marked at that time, and split the keel. It sank five miles offshore at a depth of 76 meters. There were no casualties. Facing north, ...
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 ...
Mail-transport steam from the Antonio López y Compañía shipping company bound for the Antilles and transporting the military battalion of San Marcial, on March 5, 1862, it ran aground off the coast of the island of La Gomera. He had previously suffered a machine breakdown. It was repaired, but a leak was later discovered, which, despite the efforts of the crew and the ...
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by the allied merchant ships during the 1st World War as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war. Therefore, the commanders of the German submarines included it as one of the main hunting points. Specifically, in the waters near the Alicante coastal city of Villajoyosa, the German submarine U64 attacked and sank ...
The armored cruiser of the Spanish Armada Cardenal Cisneros, in the exercise of maneuvers in the Galician Rías, set sail on October 28, 1905 from its anchorage in Muros to Ferrol to repair some small damages in its boilers. As he passed 2.6 miles from the Meixidos shallows, he hit a stumbling block, not mapped, that tore him more than 50 meters, in the entire ...
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 ...
Fishing boat sunk in May 2002 in front of the Mogan marina to promote underwater tourism. On a mixed background of sand and small stones, the main attraction of the wreck is the possibility of comfortably exploring its command bridge, as well as the wineries. Covered almost entirely by algae, it shelters numerous species of crustaceans, fish and mollusks characteristic of the Island. Simple immersion, in the ...
This ship ran aground in the Bajos de los Cabezos. Its real name is El Citos, but due to the large number of gorgonians it is better known as the Gorgonian ship. At present the Citus, “Barco de las Maderas” or “Barco de las Gorgonias”, rests on a sandy bottom on its starboard side, at a depth of 32 m with its prow pointed towards the southwest, being its conservation ...
Austro-Hungarian steam freighter sunk on July 28, 1913, 3 miles west of Cabo Prioriño Grande. He had previously run aground in the vicinity of Cape Villano. In the same area, less than half a mile away is the Swedish merchant ship Thangoy, sunk in 1953. The average depth is 65 meters. Various sources
Steam freighter sunk in 1973 when hitting Punta Rasca. Three years after its shipwreck, the Punta Rasca lighthouse was built. It was carrying cement and you can still see the bags of cement stacked and petrified by the water. It has now become an artificial reef that provides habitat for numerous species such as trumpet fish, barracuda, octopus, rays, and fireworms. Very complicated access due to the ...
Sunken fishing boat after a collision on August 31, 1975. There were no deaths. Not scrapped. Source: Yago Abilleira Crespo
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 Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by the allied merchant ships during the 1st World War as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war. Therefore, the commanders of the German submarines included it as one of the main hunting points. Specifically, in the waters near the Alicante coastal city of Villajoyosa, the German submarine U64 attacked and sank ...
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by the allied merchant ships during the 1st World War as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war. Therefore, the commanders of the German submarines included it as one of the main hunting points. Specifically, in the waters near the Alicante coastal city of Villajoyosa, the German submarine U64 attacked and sank ...
Trawler sunk in 1975 by a diesel explosion in the engine room. So it had a Japanese flag. Previously it had other names: Gerd-62 and Marva-54. The wreck is located a short distance from the port of La Luz and Las Palmas, on the outer side of the Reina Sofía dam in the same area where other wrecks from the same period are located. It is known as the little kalays for being ...
The impossibility of fishing off the coast of the Sahara led to the dismantling of a large part of the fishing fleet, as is the case with these three boats, which were sunk in 2004 in the area to promote tourist diving. The first of the wrecks (with the prow split in half AND the deck almost disintegrated) is at a depth of 20-28 m. The second (to ...
In the 1970s, a group of wooden fishing boats were sunk to promote tourist diving in the area. In the 1980s, a merchant ship (El Vapor) sank in the area closest to the coast (12 m deep) to facilitate access for novice divers. The deepest (La Hélice) is at 40 m. Today they make up a Park of Wrecks, a ...
This Portuguese freighter pushed by a storm ran aground on January 17, 2004 while it was anchored next to concrete cube number 70 of the Punta Lucero dock in the port of Bilbao. It ended up sinking that same month. A helicopter managed to save the crew and there were no fatalities. The 32m dive at its deepest level is suitable for ADVANCED divers or higher. In a background ...
The cargo ship “Dina”, known colloquially as “De las habichuelas”, because of the cargo it was carrying (cans of beans), has remained stranded in the area since it ran aground during a storm in April 1983. Due to the shallow depth at which it is found, some remains (less and less) still emerge. Sources: submalaka.com; divingelestrecho.com
French sailing and steam transatlantic ship that sank in May 1895 after running aground in the shallows of Cape Corrubedo, located two miles southwest of it. At the time of the shipwreck he had 130 people on board, 89 of whom died. He came from Le Havre (France) and after having made a stopover in Bordeaux and Guipúzcoa, he was heading to Carril, in Villagarcía de ...
The ferry Don Pedro, in charge of the Ibiza-Denia route, sank on July 11, 2007 after running aground against a shallow part of the Dado Small islet. There were no fatalities. It lies on the sand near the port of Ibiza between 26 and 47 meters deep. Diving therefore requires some experience as a diver. The ship has been covered with life in a gradual colonization that increases every ...
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 ...
Steam from the late 19th or early 20th century. It is believed that it transported coal due to the amount of this mineral that has been found, but it could also be the fuel for it for boilers. It is known as Marcelo in honor of the fisherman who found it. Source: oceanuscadiz.es
The history of this ship is closely linked to that of the Ulla and the Turia. The three are ships belonging to the Spanish Navy and it was this that yielded them for their subsequent sinking in Murcian coastal waters, (Resolution of the Ministry of Defense 236/1998 of September 10, 1998, BOE 224 of September 18, 1998) . The Navy, in addition to giving up the three ships free of charge, was commissioned ...
Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the battleship "Spain", moored in Ferrol, and no longer in operational use due to its antiquity, was taken by the National Forces. They quickly conditioned it to operate in the Cantabrian Sea, accompanied by the destroyer "Velasco", on missions to blockade the Republican coast. On April 30, 1937, while trying to intercept an English freighter, off the coast of Santander, opposite ...
Cargo ship of about 45 meters in length sunk at the end of the 19th century and known as “El Vaporet”. It is about 2.6 miles from the port of Denia, heading NE, on a 33-meter sandy bottom. The ship is quite deteriorated and has practically no superstructure, preserving frames and some deck planks. Given the absence of nearby rock formations, many species find a good refuge in it….
The Spanish freighter Francisquita, coming from the port of Seville with 100 tons of beet pulp and a consignment of cork, sank on December 17, 1952, 1.4 miles NW of Punta Nati on the coast of Menorca as a result of the rudder breakage and a large waterway caused by a collision with a rock that occurred in the middle of the night during the height of a ...
This merchant ship was transporting 950 tons of borax (sodium borate) from Rotterdan to Barcelona when the ship ran aground in the Bajo Delgados, three miles from Cape Prior, and suffered a waterway that was impossible to repair. After several futile attempts to bail the water and tow it, it finally sank on October 16, 1977 off the Ría de Viveiro. On the starboard side of a ...
In the area where the waves break, in front of the Agujero beach, on the island of Gran Canaria, there are the remains of a modern wooden ship. It could be a deep-draft frigate, corvette, brig or vessel type ship that had to run aground in the area and whose chronology could be framed around the middle of the seventeenth century. At the bottom of the sea, at a depth ...
In the Ría de Vigo, between the island of San Simón and the Puente de la Modernidad, the Rande Galleons are submerged. They are the remains of the ships sunk in the Battle of Rande, fought in October 1702 between a Franco-Spanish and an Anglo-Dutch squad. As a result of the battle, the largest Spanish fleet of the time was sunk, the "Golden Fleet", made up of 19 galleons ...
About 50 meters from the Mascarat cliffs lie the remains of the Galiana, a fishing boat of approximately 15 meters in length sunk to a depth of 21 meters. There is a great diversity of fauna in the area. A medium-advanced level of diving is recommended. Source: greenwichdiving.com
The Gaudel is a 15m long fishing boat, sunk in the late 90s. Its remains rest on a muddy bottom, between two underwater mountains lined with caves, passageways and slabs. Although it is quite deteriorated, marine life has colonized what remains of it. You can still see the pots that he carried on the deck, the frames, the tiller and the keel, which rests at ...
Submarine sold by Mussolini to Franco in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. In this contest he sank 4 ships and damaged another. It is the "Ace of Aces" of the Spanish Armada. In December 1959, while it was being towed for scrapping, the towline split off at Ons, crashing into the coast. There were no deaths. Very scrapped. Armament: 2 100 mm cannons, 2 13'2 antiaircraft machine guns ...
This ship, owned by Naviera Ferros, made the route from Gijón to Bilbao with a full load of coal. On December 16, 1925, at 9 pm, he crossed the road with the ship "Antonio" and collided with it. It suffered very considerable damage and a large waterway. An attempt was made to tow him to Bilbao, but navigating through Punta del Caballo, at 2.2 ...
Fishing boat that they were going to scrap and gave it up to sink it and promote underwater tourism in the area. The "Buceo Viveiro" center took over the operation. The Wreck is located near Gaveira Island, at the entrance to the Ría de Viveiro, at an approximate depth of 20 meters. At present it is very populated with large congers, lobsters and a great variety of fish, on ...
In the midst of the "Six Years War" a French war squad made up of the ship "Courageoux" and the frigates "Malicieuse" and "Hermine" were returning from the Antilles after carrying soldiers and supplies. At Finisterre they came across the English warship "HMS Bellona" and the frigate "HMS Brilliant". After a hard fight, the "Courageoux" is captured and the frigates flee to the Ría de Vigo, where ...
On November 18, 1918, the Echeverrieta & Larrinaga company launched the Nadir, a cargo steamship of almost 50 m in length built in the Cádiz shipyard. According to what we are told in the shipyards, it took a long time to sell, as if it had written in its austere lines the dark fate that the future had in store for it. In 1926 it changed its name and was renamed Magurio until ...
Sailing ship sunk about four miles from the port of Ibiza in the early 90s of last century, at a maximum depth of 48 meters. Apparently, it was due to running aground with a low due to confusion. This 20-meter long, two-masted sailboat is perched on a sandy bottom, slightly heeled to port and with the jib raised. Abundant bogas, and in the hull countless ...
This Greek-flagged cargo ship was carrying a shipment of sacks of cement for Nigeria. Held in Puerto de la Luz since February 1978, where he was towed due to a breakdown in the machine, due to payment problems between the shipowners and the captain, he left him on the docks until some waterways made him a danger for the port. It was towed and sunk in ...
It was once a powerful trawler for the Soviet East Atlantic fleet. Sunk since 1977 in the outer harbor of the port of La Luz and Las Palmas, between the approach routes of the many ships that enter and leave. In very good condition, it is perched on its starboard side on a sandy bottom. It is a simple and comfortable dive. Various sources
The Tordisa, known as the CARBONERO, as they say was torpedoed during the First World War by a German submarine (U 35) that wreaked havoc in the area, going to the bottom until it stayed at 45 m. It is believed that it was loaded with coal, hence its nickname. However, other sources suggest that coal was a cover for the true ammunition load, which was known to the Germans through ...
These two freighters of about 50 meters in length sunk in the port of Burriana were refloated, removed from the port and re-anchored to create an artificial reef at the end of the 20th century. At about 22 meters deep, near the port of Burriana, you can find in them a large number of nudibranchs, gobies, hamsters, red mullet, glazed, bream ... and other typically Mediterranean fauna that have chosen them as ...
These cannons belonged to a ship that had collided with the stone and to free and save the waterway that it had, it released all the cannons of a band together with the anchors so that it would list towards the other side and bridge the gap that had been made. by the impact. Sources: oceanuscadiz; waterbugs
Bulkcarrier of Naviera Bilbaína S.A. which came from the port of Almería with a shipment of iron ore destined for ENSIDESA, which it had to unload at the port of Avilés. The ship was in a terrible state of conservation, and on January 15, 1986, less than 3 miles from its expected arrival at the Avilés bar, it did not withstand a storm that ended up breaking its warehouses, ...
Galleon of the s. XVIII named Madelaine, it supplied the troops in uniform when it was detected and sunk. In his eagerness to reach the mainland he stayed a few meters from the coast with all the merchandise on board, although it is also said that it was the French themselves who sank it to avoid its capture by the English who protected Gibraltar. There are more hypotheses: they were 2 galleons that were pursued by ...
This French freighter suffers a tragic maritime accident off the coast of the extreme SW of the island of Menorca on January 2, 1929 when it collides with the Escull des Governador. The incident had a very rapid outcome, as the ship sank in a short time some 500 meters to the south, taking most of its crew with it. At a depth of 30 to 38 meters, ...
Greek-flagged oil tanker from the North Sea that transported 79,081 tons of oil to the Repsol refinery in La Coruña, of which some 67,000 were discharged into the sea. In the early morning of December 3, 1992, due to an incorrect maneuver or due to a sea blow -according to the captain of the ship- it collides with the rocky shallows of the Xacentes, about a hundred meters from ...
Mardinian was a British freighter that on a trip from Calcutta to London was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 19, 1917 off the coast of Santa Pola. In the area they know him as “el Cacahué” because after torpedoing him, cocoa beans, his cargo, which was mistaken for peanuts, arrived on the beach. It is between 47 and 56 meters deep. This wreck ...
Iron and wood fishing boat that is perched on a sandy bottom at a maximum depth of 51 meters. This wreck requires high experience in deep diving and wrecks. Source: divingislascies.com
Small fishing boat of about 20 meters in length sunk in April 1982 between the island of Dragonera and the coast of Mallorca. In this wreck, quite deteriorated, where only collapsed steel plates are seen, a colony of conger eels and moray eels of considerable size has been established, which are used to the presence of divers. For this reason it is known by the name of "Pecio de los Congrios"….
This ship was on the route from Villaricos to Gibraltar with a cargo of iron ore when it collided with the Iddesleigh ship, which led to its sinking. Leaving the Fuengirola marina it is located about 2.2 miles south of Punta de Calaburra (Lighthouse). Due to the depth at which it is located (the bow is 44 meters deep) it is convenient to have great experience in ...
“La Gabarra” or “Pecio de la Almadraba”, is actually the Miau, a barge that transported mineral and that was shipwrecked in 1950. This dive takes place between the remains of the wreck, which we will travel from one side to the other and onwards back since it is not very big, but what impresses about it is the number of conger eels that live there and how curious they are to us ...
Mina Mary was a merchant ship that caught fire in the port of Bermeo in 1963, and was towed out of the port, where it sank. In 1972, when trying to refloat it, it broke in two. It rests between 37 and 40 meters deep on a sandy bottom. In the wreck you can see schools of bogas and pouts, txitxarros, pollock, sparids and moonfish. In the engine room they have ...
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by the allied merchant ships during the 1st World War as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war. Therefore, the commanders of the German submarines included it as one of the main hunting points. Specifically, in the waters near the Alicante coastal city of Villajoyosa, the German submarine U64 attacked and sank ...
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 ...
On June 8, 2007, while being towed from Las Palmas to Turkey for scrapping, the “Nautilus” dredge sank off the Roquetas de Mar salt flats. At a depth of -54m, and lying on its starboard side, this spectacular 93m long wreck rests. The ship rises to -35m and despite being sunk for such a short time, it has already become ...
This Croatian mining merchant made the route from Vizcaya (Spain) to Turkey, loading 5,492 tons of pyrite ash. On August 13, 1992, 2 miles northeast of Ribadesella, the ship took an unstable list: 25º, due to a cargo shift, and despite the fact that numerous troops came to help (two tugboats, two support vessels, a helicopter) very heeled to starboard, sinks irretrievably….
The Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula was widely used by the allied merchant ships during the 1st World War as a transit route given the Spanish neutrality during the war. Therefore, the commanders of the German submarines included it as one of the main hunting points. Specifically, in the waters near the Alicante coastal city of Villajoyosa, the German submarine U64 attacked and sank ...
Under the Italian flag, the freighter Participation, known locally as "Nina", was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Santa Pola on February 4, 1918, while making a route between Sicily and Liverpool with a cargo of oranges. and lemons. At a depth between 56 and 65 meters, it preserves the entire main structure. The bow, the main decks and the bridge are well preserved….
On the Asturian slope of the Ría del Eo, in the Llan cove, between Arnao beach and the Punta da Cruz cape (in Castropol), an underwater archaeological site was located in 2007 by four divers from the Figueras Aquatic Activities club (FIGAS). It is believed that the remains found come from the Spanish frigates "El Galgo de Andalucía" and "San Francisco", sunk in 1719 when the ...
2.8 kilometers from Cala Bona (Mallorca) and 14 meters deep are the archaeological remains of a merchant ship from the 13th century. It is known as the "Wreck of the Columns", since it transported from some quarry on the Italian peninsula a shipment of columns and white marble capitals, today disappeared. The frames can still be seen, four iron cannons "pedreros" that fired stone projectiles the size ...
Cargo ship of the Compañía Vasco Asturiana sunk on April 15, 1905 in the vicinity of Los Palos de Poo, a mile and a half from Puerto de Llanes. He made the crossing from Bilbao to Avilés. The cause of the sinking was a waterway that the ship's crew could not repair. Thanks to several ships that came to the rescue, the crew was brought to safety. In the…
Freighter owned by Naviera Medina dedicated to cabotage between the islands and the Spanish Sahara. Coming from Villa Cisneros with a shipment of dried fish, on April 11, 1962 it ran aground on the coast nestled between the payments of Vecindario and Castillo de Romeral. An attempt was made to tow to Puerto de la Luz without success, as it sank through a waterway in the engine room ...
The Polycommander was a Norwegian-flagged oil tanker that on May 5, 1970, ran aground in the shallows near the island of Monteagudo, in the Cíes, due to an error by the captain when he left the Vigo estuary, causing the greatest ecological catastrophe of this estuary: the reefs tore it on its port side, causing a fire and spilling 15,000 tons of crude oil. By the oil slick ...
This British steam freighter sank off the Cantabrian coast on May 14, 1901 after running aground on the route from St. Nazaire to Santander. Well preserved, it is 66 meters deep. The minimum titration required for the dive is Normoxic Trimix. Various sources
It was the 1970s, when one noon the figure of this unfortunate ship appeared on the horizon of the Andalusian Atlantic. It was one more ship that was literally going to be engulfed by the sea the next day. The sinking took place very close to Playa de Los Lances, as almost always downwind of the strong Levante, which is so familiar to us. The wreck is near the ...
The name of this fishing vessel gives a good account of the preferred course it had planned, the African coast. With the breaking of the agreement with Morocco, after losing the possibility of continuing to fish in the Canarian-Saharan bank, many ships were sunk in Lanzarote. This is one of them, but it did not reach the great depths where it was intended. A failure in the blasting caused them to have to bring it closer to the coast ending at ...
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, ...
This ship was on the Malaga Seville route when it collided with the English frigate HMS Minden. The name of the "San Andrés" comes from the ballast that this ship carried inside. Presumably, the lead plates that made up the weight that stabilized the ship were cast in the San Andrés de Málaga Foundry, owned by D. Manuel Heredia, husband of one of the ship's crew. Source: www.buceoelestrecho.com
The Spanish cargo ship Río Miera, on December 6, 1951, suffered a collision and sank 4 miles from Cabo Mayor. At a depth between 38 and 45 meters in an area with strong currents, diving requires a high level of diving. Large congers, san pedro fish, lobsters and sometimes sunfish can be found on the wreck. Various sources
This Norwegian merchant was sailing to Thailand transporting chemical fertilizers when on the night of October 11, 1976, due to a severe storm, he suffered a cargo shift that caused the ship to list. The captain requested permission to enter the Port of La Coruña but the port authorities denied it, considering it a dangerous maneuver. The next morning, at the height of San…
The SS-Stanfield was a steel steam merchant freighter, 3370 tons, 120 meters long, 15 meters wide and 9 meters deep, with a bridge in the middle of the ship, which set sail on June 5, 1916 from Norfolk, Virginia to Savona, Italy captained by Georges Yannaghas with a cargo of coal for the Italian army. On June 25, 1916 at 11:30 p.m. ...
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 ...
Scotland, a stern-engine coalman under the Norwegian flag, in 1938, loaded with 850 tons of iron pyrite at Hinojedo and bound for France, was surprised by a strong storm surge when it crossed the bar of Suances and the cornet of the mouth of the Traviesa de Adentro, which caused its deviation and collided with some stones on the canal bank. In his attempt to reach ...
Korean fishing boat abandoned by its owners on the docks of Puerto de la Luz. It is an example of a strange "epidemic" that occurred in Puerto de la Luz and Las Palmas during the last decades of the 20th century, in which numerous ships, forgotten by their owners, ended their days moored at the docks and became old floating hotels, aspiring underwater artificial reefs. He went to the bottom in 1979….
The ship Setares II (the Gabarra) belonged to the “Compañía Minera de Setares” and was in charge of transporting mineral from Mioño to Altos Hornos de Bizkaia. On one of those trips (in 1957 or 1958) it sank due to a storm. Today, his remains are found in front of Playa de la Arena at a depth of 29 meters. The ship's frames, winches, nets remain ...
Southern Cross was a British refrigerated cargo steamer that ran aground and wrecked at the entrance to the Ría de Vigo on December 24, 1909. Lots of biodiversity associated with the wreck, about 14 meters deep, on a rocky bottom dotted with sand. Various sources
Sunk by the German submarine U-64, the ship is split into two halves at the height of the caldera that separates the bow from the rest of the ship. The bow lies on its port side revealing its majestic starboard anchor with its respective winch and a perfectly stowed paraban on its port side. In the part of the ship that exploded the torpedo you can see perfectly ...
The SS FERRONA IMO137411 was a merchant ship with the English flag and Liverpool registration of 121.5 meters in length by 15.5 in depth, and 4,590 tons of record. It was built by Short Brothers. Ltd. in Sunderland, with slipway number 378 and delivered in November 1914. It was a classic four warehouses with mezzanines plus the additional one between the bridge and the machine, it had a single chimney on ...
His sinking took place on October 1, 1918, when he made a trip from Alicante to Sfax, with a shipment of sulfur, and sent to sink off the coast of La Manga, very close to Palos Cabo by the shots of the German UB-type Uboat. -49 (Adolf Ehrensberger), who sent the ship to sink, without warning, the captain having to send the Francoli to abandon hastily. The crew composed of ...
“In front of Cape Palos de Cartagena, in the so-called Bajo de las Hormigas, the Italian steamer Sirio, heading for Buenos Aires, was shipwrecked on Saturday, August 4. The balance of the victims exceeded 200 dead. The ship collided with the shallows, followed by a massive explosion. The corpses were thrown by the waves to the beaches of Murcia and even to that of Santa ...
Like many of the freighters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this ship was prepared to defend itself against possible attacks. However, the S / S ALAVI on a voyage between Genoa and Cartagena was captured and subsequently sunk by a German submarine U-35 (Captained by Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière) on October 13, 1917 at 8:30 am, 6 miles Northeast of ...
British freighter flying the Hong-Kong flag and Indian crew (a total of 17 people) that had set sail from Dublin with 5,280 tons of zinc concentrates for the Asturiana de Zinc company and seemed ready to dock in the port of Avilés when a storm he made the one in Gijón go. But in that maneuver due to a waterway it was adrift and sank at about ...
Launched in 1921, it was the first type B submarine of the Spanish Navy. Operated off the coasts of Morocco in 1922 during the War of Africa, it was already in dry dock when the Spanish civil war began, in which it only carried out operations of little interest. In 1949 it was used as a target ship in military maneuvers and sunk by a flotilla of destroyers. Located a few miles ...
During the Second World War, the German submarines, when they fought against the allies and harassed the American and English merchants in the North Atlantic, used the Ría de Vigo as a refuge, from where they supplied food, fuel and rest for the crew. Vigo in turn became a city of spies who warned the allies when a Nazi submarine departed or approached. As a result…
The first name of this ship was Temple Hall, to be renamed years later by a Greek shipping company as Telamon, in honor of one of the legendary Argonauts. With this name on October 31, 1981, during a trip from San Pedro to Thessaloniki, it suffered a water leak and was stranded in Arrecife, where it was split into two halves. It still keeps its engine room intact. The…
A collision caused by fog with the English tanker Esso Cardiff led to the sinking of the Swedish merchant ship Thangoy in November 1953. This occurs in the vicinity of Cape Prioriño. two miles from Prior, after the failed attempt by the French tug Abeille 26 to take it to the Port of Ferrol. The crew had previously been picked up by the Esso Cardiff. In its dark underwater site, to ...
On May 12, 1976, the Spanish oil tanker Urquiola, from the Persian Gulf, starred off the Galician coast in one of the worst ecological catastrophes to have occurred in the Peninsula. In the maneuver to enter the La Coruña estuary, to carry out the discharge at its refinery, it ran aground on some rocky needles of the Bajo de las Yacentes. It did not suffer much damage at first. Successive maneuvers worsened their situation….
Passenger steamer wrecked on February 28, 1887. One deceased. Very scrapped. Source: Yago Abilleira Crespo
Launched in 1882, the French transatlantic passenger and cargo steamer “Ville de Pará” was making its third voyage from Havre to Pernambuco. At 8:00 a.m. on October 11, 1884 after running aground in Baja de Gando, its captain ordered the safety of the passengers and the crew, which was possible thanks to the fishermen of the area. After an hour, the steamer, rising from the stern, was ...
British steamship built in 1893 captured by the German Navy in WWI. It was sabotaged in 1916 so that it could not be recovered by the Allies. The central part was literally dynamited to sink the ship. About 30 meters deep on a sandy bottom in front of the Gaviotas beach, the stern is the best preserved part of the wreck. High density of ...
Freighter carrying iron ore. On a rainy night in 1976, he ran aground in the shallows surrounding the Estelas Islands. It is quite deteriorated, although it is possible to visit some of its wineries. Source: divingislascies.com
On June 30, 1971, a Douglas DC3 military plane of the Spanish Navy -the Zorro 33-, took off from the Gando Air Base bound for El Aaiún to participate in a parachute drop. Three minutes into the flight, one of the engines failed, losing power to lose altitude quite quickly and plummeted into the sea, where it was hit hard. Of the five ...