Tremiti Islands · Italy · Wreck
Punta del Vuccolo
Documented by century and depth alone: 16th century, 25 m
Area photo: eric spenle · CC BY-SA 4.0
A 16th-century wreck listed at 25 m off Punta del Vuccolo, the westernmost point of San Domino and of the whole Tremiti archipelago. It appears on the Tremiti tourism office's roll of the archipelago's principal wrecks with a period and a depth and nothing more, so it is a site for divers who want a documented old wreck rather than a described one.
Where it is and how deep
42.1193° N, 15.4825° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.
The dive
What is published about this site is short: a 16th-century wreck at 25 m, carried on the Tremiti tourism office's list of the archipelago's principal wrecks alongside the Roman cargo sites and the Lombardo. The position is the headland it is named for, Punta del Vuccolo, which Italian Wikipedia records as the westernmost point of San Domino and of the entire archipelago.
There is no published description of the wreck itself — no vessel, no cause, no account of how much survives or how it sits on the bottom — so plan the dive with the operator rather than from a site guide. At 25 m the profile is a single deep leg, and the shape of the dive depends entirely on what the boat crew know of the site and on the Adriatic conditions on the day.
The wreck
- Vessel
- Unidentified vessel
- Type
- Unidentified wreck
- Cause
- Not published: the wreck is listed only by period, the 16th century AD, and by depth
- Lies
- Not published; listed at 25 m off Punta del Vuccolo, the western point of San Domino
Marine life and season
The sources we used don't single out particular species here.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off-season | Off-season | Fair | Good | Good | Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Good | Fair | Off-season |
Season follows Tremiti Islands: Operators run Apr–Oct with Jun–Sep warmest; winter bora and Adriatic swell close the ferry and the dive centres.
Sources
- Relitti Marini delle Isole Tremiti — Tremiti.eu
- Punta del Vuccolo (OpenStreetMap) — OpenStreetMap
- Isola di San Domino — Wikipedia (IT)
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