Kvarner channel, for years, is a main ship route from Pula, Venice, and Trieste to Rijeka Harbor. During both WW's there were several minefields laying in this part of Adriatic Sea. Unfortunaly a lot of ships sunk. Mostly on mines and sometimes in combat or simply because of bad weather.
Apart from big cargo ships, passenger ships and war ships, there are some ancient wooden wrecks, small tugs and two airplanes sunken in this area.
The most famous are Cesare Rossarol, Italian Light explorer sunken in 1918 and Stella Polare sunken in a minefield at the entrance of Plomin bay. The biggest ship is Vis, sunken in the same minefield like Stella Polare. Probably the most dived one, because of shallow depth, is Lina. She is lying just next to shore on Cres Island. The depth is from 25-55 meters. Last few years there are more and more divers coming down here for wreck diving from all around Europe.
This section will be in constant update with new information's on present ships and update with new discoveries.
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MS Argo
To local fishermen MS Argo is known as the ship of cape Lubenice while to most scuba divers as the hospital ship. Argo was an Isle Class Trawler... More
SS Luana
At the very beginning of this story I should said that from most of the divers SS Luana is wrongly named SS Giuseppe Dormio. Booth ships are similar size, and build... More
SS Lina
Lina, or Lena as some call her, is for sure the top wreck destination in the Kvarner bay. As she sank close to the cost, the bow top is on 25 m depth... More
SS Giuseppe Dormio
Giuseppe Dormio was build in 1904 as yard no. 133 in Napier & Miller shipyard in Glasgow. First owner was a Russian company FC Zvorono under the name Italia... More
Cesare Rossarol
Ludovico De Filippi, born in Turin, Italy, was the last captain of Cesare Rossarol, Italian light explorer sunk on the underwater mine in front of Liznjan in Kvarner bay... More
