

Near Rovinj

The Romagna is also known as Romania.

The Romagna

Numidia is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Croatia, North adriatic which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Numidia

'Titanic of the Adriatic Sea' - The Baron Gautsch was an Austrian-Hungarian passenger boat which was sunk by sea mine on 13. august 1914. 


The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd luxury steamer "BARON GAUTSCH" was build at the british shipyard Gourlay´s & Sons in Dundee in 1908. She was 84,5m long, 11,6m wide and had 2069 BRT.
On the 13th of ausgust 1914 she was driving from Dalamtia to Triest. At he same time the Austrian minelayer "BASILISK" was building a large minefield to protect Austria´s most important harbour for warships - POLA (now PULA).
The "BARON GAUTSCH" was going closer to the shore than the Austrian War Government had allowed and ignored all signals from "BASILISK". The crewmembers of "BASILISK" saw the passengers on the "BARON GAUTSCH" watching them with great interest but without reacting. So the disaster was unavoidable. The "BARON GAUTSCH" hit a mine on the portside and sank quickly taking 177 passengers with her, only 159 could be saved.

The "BARON GAUTSCH" is not the real "Titanic of the adriatic sea"!
This is the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd luxury steamer "LINZ", which was torpedoed at the 19th of march 1918 off Albania, over-crowded with a lot of political refugees.
Inoffical list tells of more than 2700 people dying, which makes this one of the greatest ship-disasters ever!
-GS, Big Blue Dive Academy-

The Baron Gautsch is a wreck which is situated a couple of seamiles offshore of Rovinj.

The divesite can only be accessed by boat from Rovinj, Pula. 

Baron Gautsch

Maona wreck (depth 30 - 36 m, length 40 m, width 8 m), A tugboat from World War II still carrying a well conserved gun. Here you will often find cuttlefish, squids, huge schools of damselfish and a few lobsters.



Maona wreck

Sv. Nikol is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Croatia, North adriatic, Istra which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Sv. Nikol

The history of this US B-24 bomber is unknown. It could be one of the Italien positioned bombers who attacked Austria and South Germany from late november 1943 on, or a later one, who tried to reach the secret landing strip an the island of Vis for damaged planes, which was build in the middle of 1944. The propellors were first saved by private diving schools but now you can find them at the airfield of Vrsar.
-GS, Big Blue Dive Academy-



B-24 Liberator US Bomber is also known as Consolidated B-24 H.

B-24 Liberator US Bomber



Sv. Ivan. There are several drop points along here. Local dive shop runs many charters.

Old lighthouse

3 caves. 1 goes through island and out other side.  lobsters, eels, and starfish.

Offered through local shop. 20 euro for boat and tank.

Banjol Caves

Romerbucht is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Croatia, North adriatic, Istra which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.

Romerbucht

Pirusi

Dives offered through local shop. Night Dive site.



Little Figarola is also known as Little Figarolica.

The Romagna

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at The Romagna