La Llosa de Benidorm (Isla de Benidorm)

The seamount sits roughly 300 m south of Isla de Benidorm, so the 73 m island (and the mainland beyond it) shadows the northern and north-western sectors, including the Tramontana/Mistral-driven NW wind-waves. The steep eastern wall and the open southern fetch are fully exposed through the ESE-SSW arc, taking the prevailing Levante (E-ESE), the warm long-fetch Sirocco/Xaloc (SE) and the SW Llebeig (Libeccio) wind-waves, which build the largest seas here. As a microtidal Mediterranean site swell is wind-driven and limited, so conditions are usually calm but deteriorate quickly in an easterly, southerly or south-westerly blow.