Boat dive
Roman wreck from the 1st century BC with about 400 amphorae
About the site
The site rests at a depth of 37-39 meters, at the boundary between the rocky and sandy slopes of the sea floor.
It consists of a group of about 400 quite visible amphorae, typologically classified as Lamboglia type 2 in several variants, which can be dated to the 1st century BC, i.e., the time of the late Roman Republic. For more information visit: discover-pag.com
The site rests at 37 to 39 metres, on the boundary between the rocky and the sandy slope of the sea floor. The dive is planned around that depth: you descend, spend a limited time over the amphorae and begin the ascent early, because at 39 metres the no-decompression time is short.
The amphorae lie together in one group of about 400, and they are quite visible, so you stay over the field instead of searching for it. That keeps the dive calm and the group close. An average dive lasts about 45 minutes, most of it taken up by the descent, the visit and a slow ascent.
This is an advanced dive. You need an Advanced certification and a dive logged within the past three months, because at this depth steady buoyancy and calm gas consumption matter far more than they do in the shallows.
It is the right site for certified divers who want to see an archaeological find in place: the amphorae are typologically classified as Lamboglia type 2 and dated to the 1st century BC, the time of the late Roman Republic. It is the wrong site for the first dive of the season.
Dive price
73,00 € per dive
Amphora diving - Letavica
Included in the price
Requirement: Advanced cert + last dive within 3 months
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Mandre
A tumbling wall teeming with eels, octopuses and brown meagres
Tegule
Roman roof tiles, imbrices and tegulae, forming a small artificial reef
Gorgonije
Red sea fans, the coral named after the snake-haired Gorgon Medusa
Plančić west
A wall dropping vertically to 39 metres, dotted with sea fans and a large anchor
