Francesca da Rimini

The wreck lies in the open Murter-Kornati channel off the northwestern tip of Kaprije, which sits immediately to the south and southeast and blocks that whole sector — importantly shielding the site from Jugo/Scirocco, the SE wind that has the longest fetch and builds the biggest Adriatic seas. The exposed window is the open channel to the N-NW-W, where the Maestral (NW) afternoon breeze and any northwesterly chop come straight in, and the NE-facing side has a moderate fetch across the channel toward the distant mainland for the gusty Bura. The outer Kornati islands to the SW give partial shelter from that quarter. Being a deep wreck, the site feels surface weather mainly as channel current and as boat-handling/entry difficulty rather than swell on the wreck itself.