Africa Wreck (Sarakiniko)

The wreck lies a few metres off the north coast of Milos at Sarakiniko, facing open water to the north and so fully exposed to the summer Meltemi (N-NW) wind that drives short, steep wind-waves across the Aegean. Milos itself shelters the landward southern and western sectors, and neighbouring Kimolos, about 8-11 km off to the north-east, partially blocks the NE-ENE, leaving the true open window across the N and NW where there is no protection at all. That northern exposure is why operators only run the site when the Meltemi has dropped: in a calm window it is flat and benign, but in any northerly the shallow rocky shore becomes a surge zone and the dive is called off.