FISH IN SPAIN

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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….

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 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…

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 ...

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 ...