Intro I published a Top 10 Diving Recap in 2020 and then again in 2021. This year I am making it a "Top 10 Dives and Projects" list since quite a bit of my diving this year has been working on more longer-term projects that involve multiple dives on the same wreck. It has been [...]
Tag: Croatia
B-17G Flying Fortress (Vis, Croatia — 235 fsw)
The B-17 is truly an amazing wreck -- it is, without a doubt, the largest and most-intact airplane I have ever dove. B-17 Flying Fortress First, a little bit about the B-17 as an airplane. The B-17 was a four-engine "heavy bomber" developed in the 1930s and primarily used by the US Army Air Forces [...]
Brioni (Vis, Croatia — 150/200 fsw)
For such a large, prominent wreck, there is actually very little known about the Brioni. The book, Treasures of the Adriatic, has some information about the ship which is summarized below: It was a large, mixed passenger-cargo ship that was built in Monfalcone, Italy. It had a triple expansion steam engine and one very large [...]
B-24 Liberator “Tulsamerican” (Vis, Croatia — 130/170 fsw)
I did two dives on the famous B-24 Liberator "Tulsamerican" wreck during my trip. The wreck has a very interesting backstory. In 1944, Allied Forces built an airfield on Vis in order for planes returning from missions to land safely if they couldn't make it back to their home base after bombing runs in Germany, [...]
Ursus (Vis, Croatia — 200 fsw)
SS Michael N. Maris (Vis, Croatia — 240 fsw)
Vassilios Wreck (Vis, Croatia — 70-175 fsw)
Trip Report : Vis, Croatia Wreck Diving (May 2022)
Background This is a lengthy and detailed report of my recent trip to Vis, Croatia to dive some amazing wrecks. It includes information about travel, Covid, hotels, logistics, dining, etc. It is a long post but offers a lot of details for anybody else considering diving in Vis. Follow-on posts will concentrate on the wrecks [...]