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Scuba diving at Relitto Santa Lucia in Ventotene
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Relitto Santa Lucia

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VentoteneBoat
About This Site
The signature deep dive of Ventotene and the premier wreck of the Pontine islands. The Santa Lucia was a hospital/ferry steamship (the "Tram di Ponza") torpedoed by British Beaufighters on 24 July 1943 about 2 nautical miles NW of Punta Eolo. She broke in two and now rests on a sandy bottom: the capsized bow at roughly 39 m and the heeled-over stern at about 46 m, with the detached boiler lying nearby. Discovered by Raimondo Bucher in the late 1950s, it is a demanding open-water descent reserved for experienced deep and tech divers.

Difficulty

Advanced

Max Depth

46m

Type

Boat

Typical Visibility

15m

Conditions Summary

Best time today

6AM - 12PM

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Best day in forecast

Today

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2026-07-11

Community-reported visibility

n/a

Warnings for today

None

An offshore wreck lying in open Tyrrhenian water about 2 nautical miles northwest of Ventotene, so the western and northern sectors are fully exposed to the NW Mistral/Tramontana and the SW Libeccio wind-waves that build the regional chop. The island of Ventotene lies to the southeast and offers only partial shelter from that quadrant; the southern fetch carries the warm Scirocco. As a deep boat dive the main concern is surface state for the open-water descent rather than swell on the wreck itself.

NNEESESSWWNW
Protected
Partially Exposed
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