Guide of Ibiza and Formentera

Dangers to navigation

By Alberto de Zunzunegui (Shipping Diamond)

Although navigation in Ibiza is not excessively complicated, possibly it is the island that more dangers not as much hides between its blue waters and it by the existence of stumbling blocks, but perhaps by its summery atmosphere, frequented, funny and cosy, that sometimes causes that we forget that never it is necessary to less lose the respect to him to the sea and when we were on board a boat.

To consult letters frequently, especially paying for yantes to enter the coves, is not lacking symptom of ignorance or of experience, but of prudence and responsibility. Especially delicate they are the following points:

- Passage between Ibiza and Espalmador: freus. The passage by freu medium is not recommendable unless really it is never known well and at night. Attention in high season to the intense traffic of boats and ferries.

- Nocturnal Approaches to the Port of Ibiza: in high season, the exit and especially the entrance in “rush hour” (between the 19 and 21 hours) in the Port of Ibiza, requires a great attention by the intense marine traffic and by some “macarras”, does not happen another more suitable denomination to me” of powerful motorboats, to which never they taught that in the sea it is possible to be run, but sn to put in risk the security of the others.

- Stumbling block of the Boot, next to Vedrá.

- Passage between Rabbit breeder and the island of the Forest

- Figueral Slab: especially dangerous since the beacon was destroyed that indicated its position, by its moved away situation of the coast and to be within one of the courses most probable to happen between Ibiza and Tagomago if we are paying for. To consult the letter and to give ample a defense him.

- Passage between Ibiza and the island of Grey hair

- Slab of Santa Eulalia: at the moment marked out with buoys and delimited by the red sector of the light of Tagomago

- Approaches at night to Santa Eulalia

- Lladó Small barren islands, especially at night