Vassilios T Wreck

The wreck sits at the foot of the cliffs on Cape Stupišće, the southwest extremity of Vis, an outer island facing the open Adriatic. The widest open window runs from west through northwest, straight into the W-NW swell that Bura (Bora) and passing Adriatic lows drive down the sea, and a second southerly window (S-SSW) admits the long fetch of the SE Jugo (Sirocco), the dominant swell-maker along the Adriatic's SE-NW axis. Between those two windows the southwest sector is roughly half-blocked by Biševo island about 5 km offshore, which softens SW swell but still leaves the cape an exposure-driven site diveable only in settled weather. The landward sectors from northeast round to southeast are shadowed by the Vis landmass and the cape itself.