Mediterranean feather star

Antedon Mediterranea - Mediterranean feather star - is becoming increasingly rare, and we try not to miss every opportunity to film and photograph it. On this dive we found it on a seabed that varies from 45 to 48 meters deep. As you can see from the video, the body of the starfish is in a small ...

Grouper of Mediterranean Sea

This video shows a typical reef of Mediterranean reef particularly exploited by sport fishermen. As you can see there are many nylon fishing lines that have remained entangled in the rocks like this however create pollution from plastic materials. The Grouper of  Mediterranean Sea is inside his den but...

New future colony of Savalia savaglia

During this dive on a reef completely populated by colonies of red Gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) we also encountered some "branches" of false black coral, the very rare Savalia savaglia. We have often documented this beautiful yellow coral called False black coral on seabeds of approximately 78/80 meters up to almost 90 meters deep, ...

Sand steenbras

Sand steenbras or Striped seabream (Lithognathus Mormoryus) belongs to the class Osteichthyes, subclass Actinopterygii, order Perciformes, suborder Percoidei, family Sparidae. It is a beautiful elegant silver-colored fish with six very dark and highlighted vertical bands and an equal number of narrower and less evident bands, the body is long and compressed laterally, ...

Black seabream

Black seabream, Spondyliosoma cantharus, also called Cantaro in Italy, is a fish belonging to the Sparidae family, like the more common bream, and sea bream. We usually encounter this fish on the shallows in the open sea and at depths of 10 to 100 meters. ...