B-17 Flying Fortress Wreck

The wreck rests in the north-facing Bay of Calvi, sheltered to the south, southwest and west by the Corsican mainland, the citadel headland and the Revellata peninsula, so those landward sectors are effectively blocked. The bay mouth opens onto the Ligurian Sea across the N-to-NE arc, and the longest fetch runs N-NNE toward the distant mainland coast, making northerly wind-waves the dominant exposure; the eastern shore of the gulf sits close by, so the E-SE sectors are short-fetch and quickly sheltered. The NW Libeccio/Mistral wraps partially around the Revellata peninsula, which shades the WNW-NW approach, but can still build surface chop. Being a microtidal Mediterranean site with no real ocean swell, conditions are governed by these regional winds rather than tide.