Ponta do Sol
Sun-drenched seaside village with a pebble beach, old pier and a famous shipwreck dive offshore.
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This guide to Ponta do Sol, on Madeira's sunny southwest coast, follows a working ship with a dark past, from a summer night on London's River Thames in nineteen eighty-nine to a new name and a new job off this shore. It touches the dredger's Madeiran owners, the rough March weather of nineteen ninety-six, and the divers who went looking. Best heard from the old pier, facing the open sea.
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