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A living atlas beneath the Adriatic
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Montenegro's underwater stories. Discover the wrecks, enter the water, follow the history.
Geography / Montenegrin coast
Explore the coast through its stories.
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One living atlas. Wrecks, aircraft and the stories they carry.
28 sites
01Live 3D
Shipwreck · 1915World War I
Dague
Explore the documented remains of the French destroyer through history, photogrammetry and an interactive underwater scene.
Bar, MontenegroExplore ↗
02Live 3D
Steamship · 1917World War I
SS Tihany
A coal carrier whose final voyage ended near Mamula.
Boka Kotorska BayExplore ↗
03Live 3D
Torpedo boat · 1959World War I
Golešnica 91
One vessel, several names, and a life spanning two world wars.
Near ŽanjiceExplore ↗
04Live 3D
Aircraft · 1944
Spitfire
An aircraft’s story, preserved beneath the bay.
Cape KabalaExplore ↗
05Read the story
Steamship · 20th centuryWorld War II
Bojana
A working steamer whose final chapter remains uncertain.
Ulcinj coastExplore ↗
06Read the story
Steamship · 1891World War I
Carola
A merchant vessel lost in mist near Ulcinj.
Near Cape ĐeranExplore ↗
07Read the story
Submarine · 1915World War I
Fresnel Q65
A submarine revealed again by shifting sand.
Ada BojanaExplore ↗
08Read the story
Cruiser · 1914World War I
SMS Zenta
A naval battle remembered in the deep Adriatic.
Off PetrovacExplore ↗
09Read the story
Steamship · 1942
Oreste
A trading ship divided by a wartime mine.
Trsteno BayExplore ↗
10Live 3D
Vessel · 1983
Patrol Boat PBR-512
A Cold War patrol vessel, preserved upright beneath Žanjice Bay.
Žanjice BayExplore ↗
11Read the story
Gunboat · 1855
Aigrette
Approximately one nautical mile southwest of Cape Volujica, near Bar, lies the wreck of a nineteenth-century wooden warship long surrounded by uncertainty.
Near BarExplore ↗
12Read the story
Aircraft · 1939–1945World War II
Junkers Ju 88
Off the coast of Čanj lies the wreck of a twin-engined aircraft dating to the Second World War.
Off ČanjExplore ↗
13Read the story
Cargo vessel · 1914World War II
Carlotta
Off Cape Platamuni, near Budva, lies the wreck of Carlotta, a Scottish-built cargo vessel whose career took it from British coastal trade to Polish ownership and,…
Cape PlatamuniExplore ↗
14Read the story
Royal yacht · 1900World War I
Rumija
Beneath the waters of the Port of Bar lie the heavily damaged remains of Rumija, the former royal yacht of Prince—and later King—Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš.
Port of BarExplore ↗
15Read the story
Motor sailer · 1937World War II
Litorio
East of Sveti Nikola Island, near Budva, lie the fragmented remains of Litorio, an Italian motor sailing vessel lost during the Second World War.
Near BudvaExplore ↗
16Read the story
Steamship · 1944World War II
Cetinje
At a depth of approximately 41 metres in the centre of Tivat Bay lie the remains of the passenger steamship Cetinje.
Tivat BayExplore ↗
17Read the story
Steamship · 1903World War I
Goritia
Resting in the shallow waters near Ulcinj, the wreck of the steamship Goritia is one of the largest and most impressive historic shipwrecks along the Montenegrin coast.
Near UlcinjExplore ↗
18Read the story
Steamship · 1909World War II
Maria Pompei
Off Cape Platamuni, near Budva, the wreck identified as Maria Pompei preserves the history of a merchant vessel that sailed under several names and flags before its…
Cape PlatamuniExplore ↗
19Read the story
Steamship · 1922World War II
Quinto
Resting near the Bay of Bigovica, off the coast of Bar, the Italian steamship Quinto preserves the story of a little-known naval encounter during the Greco-Italian War.
Bay of BigovicaExplore ↗
20Read the story
Steamship · 1940World War II
Srebreno
At the end of 1940, the Yugoslav cargo steamship Srebreno ran onto the Kalafat Reef—locally known as Albaneze—near the entrance to the Bay of Kotor.
Kalafat ReefExplore ↗
21Read the story
Submarine · 1916World War I
HMS H3
About one nautical mile south-southeast of Mamula Island, the British submarine HMS H3 rests upright on the seabed at a depth of approximately 75–79 metres.
Near MamulaExplore ↗
22Read the story
Submarine · 1915World War I
Monge
The French submarine Monge disappeared off the Montenegrin coast during one of the most dramatic naval operations in the Adriatic campaign of the First World War.
Montenegrin coastExplore ↗
23Read the story
Torpedo boat · 1940s
Higgins 78
Two small warship wrecks in the Bay of Kotor are locally associated with the Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat—a fast, wooden-hulled design developed in the United…
Bay of KotorExplore ↗
24Read the story
Destroyer · 1900s
SMS Huszár
Scattered around the Kalafat Reef—locally known as Albaneze—are the surviving remains of SMS Huszár, the prototype of Austria-Hungary’s first domestically reproduced…
Kalafat ReefExplore ↗
25Read the story
Shipwreck · 16th century
Cape Kabala wreck
Off Cape Kabala in the Bay of Kotor lies the wreck of a sixteenth-century vessel whose cargo brings together Ottoman ceramics, Mediterranean tableware and shipboard…
Cape KabalaExplore ↗
26Read the story
Archaeology · Antiquity
Ancient shipwrecks
Beneath the waters of Montenegro’s Adriatic coast lies an exceptional archaeological landscape: the remains of merchant ships, cargoes of amphorae and building…
Montenegrin coastExplore ↗
27Read the story
Shipwreck · Unconfirmed
Unconfirmed wrecks
Several shipwrecks off the Montenegrin coast remain only provisionally identified.
Montenegrin coastExplore ↗
28Read the story
Unidentified · Unconfirmed
Unidentified sites
Three underwater sites recorded along the Montenegrin coast remain insufficiently investigated for secure identification.
Montenegrin coastExplore ↗
Underwater Cultural Landscapes of Montenegro
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