Relitto Tabarka

The Tabarka lies on the open offshore Secche di Vada shoal in the Ligurian arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea, with the Tuscan coast (Vada/Rosignano) only 3-4 km to the east, so the whole landward arc from the NE through E to SE is shadowed by land and short fetch. There is no ocean groundswell here; the sea state is entirely wind-driven. The exposed window is the wide S-SSW-SW-W-WNW-NW arc facing open water toward Corsica and the Gulf of Genoa, where the Libeccio (SW) has the longest fetch and builds the biggest waves, backed by the Ponente (W) and Maestrale (NW) that reach the wreck almost as cleanly. Tramontana and Grecale from the N-NE blow offshore off the land and raise little sea at the wreck. A Libeccio or a sustained westerly/NW blow is what cancels trips and stirs up the shallow shoal; in the prevailing calm summer weather the site is settled and, being shallower with a lighter current, more forgiving than the neighbouring Genepesca.