Scuba diving
THE WRACK OF POMONTE
Depth: 12-13 meters
Difficulty level: easy
Stream: little
Visibility: good
Wrack of Pomonte all'Isola d'Elba
Diving recommended by Pomonte beach. The same dive site reached by boat, takes about one hour and forty minutes.
Beautiful diving open to all, the beam of light that enters into the wreck in some hours of the day creates a wonderful and fascinating atmosphere.
Position, type of bottom, and light that filters create a habitat for many kind of fishes: here we can find pelagic fishes such as dentex (dentex dentex) and Barracuda (sphyraena sphyraena), but especially fishes such as conger eel (conger conger), moray eel (muraena helena) and octopus (octopus vulgaris) that use the wreck as a safe haven.
The wreck was a cargo boat (Elviscott) built in 1960 that sailed from Naples/Taranto directed to Marseilles, with a cargo of timber; on the night of January 10, 1972 due to a storm the ship was abandoned by the crew who saved on a rescue boat.
The ship remained aground on the Ogliera rock, just in front of Pomonte. For a time the ship remained sunk with the stern and the bow emerged, wedged between the rocks; later it was completely sunk due to the proximity to the beach Pomonte.
