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| Vessel
Type: | Spanish
Trawler | Location: | Co.
Cork | | Date
of Loss: | 25th
December 2000 | Place: | Bere
Island | | Cause
of Loss: | Foundered
| Boat
Dive from: | Castletownbere
Harbour | | Charted
Depth: | 15m | Irish
O.S. Map: | Discovery
Series No. 84 or 88 | | Height
of Wreck: | 4m
| Admiralty
Chart No: | 2184 |
| Hull
Material: | Steel | Latitude
(approx.): | Unklnown |
| Type
of Seabed: | Sand
| Longitude
(approx.): | Unknown | | Average
Visibility: | 10m
+ | Convert
Lat. & Long.
to - | Decimal
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HERE | | No
image available. | | Diving
Experience: | Experienced
Novice | - Lies
off the East end of Bere Island between Roancarrigmore and Roancarrigbeg Rocks.
- Site
is conveniently marked by an "Isolated Danger" buoy
(black and red).
- She
is sitting almost upright with only slight damage to the hull.
- Everything
is still there - prop, wheel, captains chair, electronics etc.
- Warning!!
Some fishing nets are snagged on the wreck.
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- Built
in 1961 and is named after the Zorrozaurre peninsula in the Basque region of Spain
and was registered in Plymouth.
- She
measured 36.0 x 6.6 x 3.6 metres with a gross weight of 250 tonnes.
- While
140 miles south of Bantry she ran into heavy seas. The crew were air-lifted by
helicopter.
- She
drifted for almost ten days before sinking off the east end of Bere Island.
- Sister
ship of the "Nuestra
Senora de Gardotza",
the wreck that lies exposed on Roancarrigbeg 400m away.
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| Tim
Carey, Blackwater SAC |
by | CFT
"Sub Sea" Magazine |
| Irish
Underwater Council 2005 - ISSN 0791-475X |
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Last
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