{"id":326,"date":"2018-01-28T20:14:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T20:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.havendiving.com\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2018-03-11T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T17:01:06","slug":"haven-la-storia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.havendiving.com\/en\/haven-la-storia\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven – The Story"},"content":{"rendered":"The largest Wreck you can dive in the Mediterranean Sea. <\/span><\/p>\n

A<\/em><\/strong>moco Milford Haven<\/em><\/span> was built by Astilleros Espa\u00f1oles S.A. in Cadiz, Spain, the sister ship of Amoco Cadiz<\/em>, which sank in 1978. <\/span><\/p>\n

Launched in 1973, she worked various routes shipping crude oil from the middle east gulf. In 1988 she was hit by a missile in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War.<\/span><\/p>\n

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11th April 1991, 12.40 am.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Haven<\/em> was unloading a cargo of 230,000 tonnes<\/a> of crude oil to the Multedo<\/a> floating platform, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) off the coast of Genoa<\/a>, Italy<\/a>. Having transferred 80,000 tonnes, the ship disconnected from the platform for a routine internal transfer operation, to allow oil to be pumped from two side-holds into a central one. Then there was an awful explosion. As the fire engulfed the ship, flames rose 100m high and, after a series of further explosions occurred, between 30-40,000 tons of oil poured into the sea.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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14th April, 10.05 am.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Italian authorities acted quickly, with hundreds of men fighting a fire which was difficult to access, and distributing more than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of inflatable barriers, submerged a metre<\/a> below the surface, around the vessel to control the spillage.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 250m long main body has been transported  2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the coast, – depth 80m.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Haven  is now the largest wreck in the Mediterranean Sea <\/span><\/p>\n

An intensive depollution and cleaning action has been performed  in the following years and now the wreck has become a wonderful diving area with anemones, oysters, nudibranches.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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