- prozor
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- plima
- The current you will find towards the west will nearly always be wind-driven and not tidal. If anything changes the level at Monte Argentario, it is pressure and wind, not the moon. The way back, 240 m to the five-metre band, is decided beforehand and not on the way. In a hard Ponente the water piles up inshore and drains away sideways.
- zaklon
- In a bay like this the shelter is a few tens of metres wide, tucked against the windward point rather than in the middle of the arc, and in a hard Ponente not even that. The opening to the west is wide: no nearby storm is needed here, an old sea from that sector is enough. The 240 m that separate the shore from ten metres of water tell you how much sea it takes to ruin the day. At Monte Argentario the old rule holds: watch the sea for ten minutes, then decide.
- uvjeti
- The strip under the shore is the last to clear; the clean part starts where the bottom breaks away. A slope this steep keeps the dirty strip narrow: past 240 m the sight is nearly always better. After three calm days the water at Monte Argentario is a different water. Past 240 m from the shore it is the water that decides the day and not the willingness.
- opasnost
- The marker has to follow you even when you are working 240 m from the shore: 50 m from the vertical below it is the legal maximum. The mouth of the bay is where the swell concentrates and where getting back becomes difficult. With 240 m out to five metres, the exit is short only if you decide on it in time. With Ponente building, the window shuts sooner than the forecast says.
- pristup
- At Monte Argentario the entry at the head of the cove is the one that holds up best even in a made-up sea. With the shore 30 m away and five metres of water at 240 m, the band to cross is a short one. Count the 240 m that separate you from the five-metre contour: they are the measure of the way back. If you do not fancy swimming the 240 m back from ten metres of water, do not go any further out.
Granite wall from the ridge underwater, blocks and overhangs; sea bream, sea bass, big leerfish.
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