Category: Sub & Diving

Egad Islands: The marine habitats of the Egadi

Posidonia seabed

  The term habitat can refer to a place with certain characteristics that make the settlement of a species or different species favorable to form a community. In the marine environment the combination of factors essentially linked to depth as the amount of light, The temperature and strength of the wave motion, crea diverse tipologie di

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The Amp Egadi described by Stefano Donati

L’ Marine Protected Area Egadi is perhaps the queen among the marine reserves of Italy, boasting the largest marine reserve title in Europe, The presence of the most extensive and best preserved ocean prairie of the Mediterranean, e, above all, The sensational return of the nun seal, The protected species symbol of our seas. Seabed, fauna and flora …

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Archeology: Levanzo found the 12th rostrum used by one of the ships in the Battle of the Egadi

Tonnara Florio Favignana Museum

These days a team led by the Superintendent of the Sea of ​​the Sicilian Region has dived to a depth among 80 e i 100 meters in order to explore the depths and has regained 12th rostrum of the Battle of the Egadi 241 A.C.. The project aims to bring to light additional tracks …

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Diving: The wreck dell'ELPIS

Wreck Elpis

We return on the subject so exciting dives on wrecks and to do so this time we speak of a ship l, Elpis, that few know and moreover even whole lies at a depth of just 15 meters. We are in full “zone A” Navy Reserve Egadi, half mile south of the islet of Formica in Trapani …

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Diving: the wreck of the merchant Carmelo Lo Porto in Favignana

Wreck Lo Porto

It was so much I wanted to tell you about it, but I missed the historical news that recently I learned from an interesting research by Stefano Ruia, diver and a great connoisseur of the treasures of our seas, I refer to the wreck of the merchant Carmelo Lo Porto nestled in the beautiful sea of ​​Favignana. I carry in my heart because that is where …

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