Mana

Mana sits on the outer, open-sea edge of Kornati National Park, and the dive is on the southwest-facing wall pointing straight into the open Adriatic. The island bulk to the north and northeast and the inner archipelago beyond it shield the entire N-through-NE arc, so Bura (NE) blows offshore and flat here. The fully exposed window is the S-SW-SSW sector, wide open to the deep Adriatic, together with the SE — the direction of the Jugo/Scirocco, which has the longest fetch along the sea's NW-SE axis and raises the biggest and most persistent waves on this coast. A sustained Jugo or a southerly-to-southwesterly blow builds swell directly onto the wall and, combined with the long open crossing from Murter, is what most often forces the dive to be called off; the western sector is largely open too, while the NW Maestral only adds afternoon surface chop.