Giuseppe Dezza (TA-35)

The wreck lies at the southern mouth of the Fazana channel, tucked behind the Brijuni archipelago, so its swell window is far from open. The Brijuni islands and southern islets sit only about 1-2 NM to the west and northwest and the Istrian mainland closes off the north through east, shadowing all of those landward sectors. The exposed arc is the open water to the south, opening down-channel into the wider upper Adriatic, where the S-SSW sector is unobstructed. A Jugo (Sirocco) driving up the NW-SE Adriatic axis is the main wave-maker here and reaches the site from the SSE/S, though the Premantura/Pula headland about 8 NM to the SE partly cuts the pure SE fetch. A Bura (Bora) from the NE blows offshore over land and has little fetch to build waves at this position. Being sheltered by Brijuni keeps the site diveable more often than the fully exposed Baron Gautsch, but a sustained southerly still builds channel chop quickly.