Found by Dive Planet in 2011, this large cargo is one of the most intact ships you can visit.
Inside, all the furnishings and objects on board are still in the holds. Its large masts soaring towards the surface are used by us to moor the dinghy. On a decisive and fatal day in 1983, during a storm surge near the Croatian coast, the Indian Mixed Cargo (people/things), loaded with many products, including tree trunks on deck and a bus, took water into the holds for moving the cargo.
Irremediably the ship is called to the waters, but not before floating for several more hours to our coasts where it will sink in perfect sailing trim, whole, with all its cargo that is still in place today. In 2011 the staff of the Dive Planet, led by Steve and Beppe, found the wreck, and were the first to go down and see it after the sinking.
Minimum depth 38 m, maximum depth 67 m.
The huge ship launched on 22/07/1956, boasts a remarkable length of 110 meters, width 14.94 meters, height 8.88 meters, draft 8.05 meters, gross tonnage 2,650.51 tons, CRDA Sulzer engine 3000 hp, speed 16.04 knots the shipping company, Ameritalia Società di navigazione S.p.a. of Trieste.
HISTORY: Leased to the Saguenay Line Company. Transferred to the Marisped Line of Portoferraio (Li) in 1974 – renamed TASSOS TSIRIS in 1975 (Monastiraki Shipping Co. – Limassol, CY – Palmyra Shipping Co.Ltd – Limassol, CY) – renamed THESEUS in 1979 (Theseus Shipping Co.Ltd. – Piraeus, GR) – renamed ZOE II in 1980 (Ermioni Shipping Co.S.A. Panama – 1981 Century Shipping Corp. – Panama) – Sunk during a NE storm, after being abandoned by the crew due to entrainment off the island of Susak in the Adriatic, on 06.03.1982 (S.O.S. at 17.35, local time) while sailing from Koper (Slovenia) to Jeddah (SAR) in the Red Sea. The entire crew of 27 people was rescued in a lifeboat and was then picked up by the Russian ship Ratno and disembarked in Rijeka. It was considered sunk after numerous searches that took place without success.
DEGREE MIN. DEEP DIVER (FOR OVERFLIGHT)
TECHNICAL PATENTS ADAPTED TO THE DEPTH YOU WANT TO REACH!
GLOVES, SOCKS AND PERSONAL SIGNAL FLASK MANDATORY!
The wreck can be reached in 90 minutes of navigation.
