- Type
- Wreck
- Typical depth
- 42 m
- Level
- Technical
- Visibility
- 15–30 m
- Water temp
- 16–27 °C
- Current
- Mild
- Access
- Open access
- Min cert
- Recreational external tour from Advanced Open Water; the deeper cargo decks, engine room and bridge interior are full tec wreck-penetration profiles requiring stage gas and wreck-penetration certification.
- Wreck
- Penetration
- Deep Wreck
- Trimix
- Overhead Environment
- Historic
- Articulated Trucks
When to dive
BestAvoidOK
Eastern Med — workable most of the year, but visibility and surface conditions are best from late spring to early autumn. Wreck is 1.5 km off Larnaca harbour, accessible by short boat ride.
34.9211° N, 33.6481° E
Notes
Swedish RoRo ferry that capsized on her maiden voyage in 1980. 172 m, lying on her port side; trucks still chained in cargo bay.
Marine life
- Other
- over 100 articulated trucks still chained inside the cargo decks
- Pelagics
- amberjack, tuna passing
- Reef fish
- grouper, barracuda, bream, damselfish
- Invertebrates
- moray eels in the cargo bay, tube worms
Wreck
- Vessel
- MS Zenobia
- Class
- Challenger-class roll-on/roll-off ferry
- Origin
- Sweden
- Sunk
- 1980 — ballast computer software failure causing fatal list during her maiden voyage, 7 Jun 1980
- Length
- 172 m
- Penetration
- Possible — with training
Dive clubs that visit this site
- Alpha Diverssource
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- Dive Point Cyprussource
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- Easy Divers Cyprussource
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- Latchi Dive Centresource
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- Marine Divers (Diving In Cyprus)source
Kissonerga, Paphos, Cyprus · Dive centre
- Scuba Tech Diverssource
Protaras, Cyprus · Dive centre
- Viking Diverssource
Larnaca (Pyla), Cyprus · Dive centre
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