Reggio Messina Wreck

The wreck lies just south of the La Foradada point on the open Montgri coast, with the Montgri massif directly to the west and northwest sheltering the whole landward arc. The strong regional Tramuntana blows offshore from the land here, so despite being the dominant wind it rarely builds sea at the site. Exposure is concentrated on the seaward N-through-S window and peaks from the E to SE, where the easterly Llevant and the warm Scirocco - the swell directions that raise the biggest seas on this coast - reach the wreck with full fetch; the SSW-SW arc back toward L'Estartit is partly sheltered by the bending coast. Being effectively tideless, it is swell and recent wind, not tide, that decide whether the site is divable; an E or SE blow shuts it down.