FISH IN SPAIN

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Sunken fishing boat after a collision on August 31, 1975. There were no deaths. Not scrapped. Source: Yago Abilleira Crespo

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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…

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

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…

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

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