Genepesca

First dive of the season is always quite critical. The equipment must be tested: BCD, regulators, scuba, computers, etc. but above all finding assets, aquatic skills and physical condition. In practice it is training to then increase the objectives we try to achieve. For these reasons we try to immerse ourselves in a known place where we can find ...

Young Yellowmouth barracuda

Young yellowmouth barracuda, Sphyraena viridensis, or yellow barracuda is a predatory ray finned fish from the family Sphyraenidae, the barracudas, which is found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is often confused with the European barracuda Sphyraena sphyraena. ...

Palelipped surgeonfish

Acanthurus leucocheilus, also known as the Palelipped surgeonfish or the white-spine surgeonfish is a species of tropical fish It is used commercially in aquariums. Is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acanthuridae, the surgeonfishes, unicornfishes or tangs. This fish is found in the Indo-Pacific region. ...

Mediterranean lobster

Lobsters are increasingly rare. There are many reasons: a larval life that lasts about 20 years, overfishing, the change of one's habitat due to the usual causes, warming of the waters, tropicalization of the Mediterranean Sea, etc. etc. In this isolated patch at about 52/54 meters deep we found them and some ...

High risk scuba diving

Deep scuba diving using compressed air is definitely to be considered a high-risk dive. All international diving organizations recommend limiting diving with compressed air to -40 meters of depth to avoid incurring what is called nitrogen narcosis. Compressed air is denser as the depth increases, and consequently greater breathing effort is required which could lead to breathlessness ...

Picarel fish Spicara smaris

Spicara smaris, (Zerro in Italy) one of the picarels, is a species of ray-finned fish native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. It grows to a maximum length of about 20 cm; females are usually smaller than males. Spicara smaris was removed from the family Centracanthidae and placed ...

Noah's Ark seashell

Noah's Ark seashell, Arca noae, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Arcidae. It is found in the Mediterranean Sea from low tide mark to a depth of 100 metres. The seashell of Arca noae grows to about 10 cm in length. but the ones we found did not exceed 3, 4 centimeters. ...

Variable-lined fusilier

Variable-lined fusilier, Caesio varilineata, or thin-lined fusilier, is a species of pelagic marine ray-finned fish, a fusilier belonging to the family Caesionidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region. Caesio varilineata was first formally described in 1987 by the American ichthyologist Kent E. Carpenter ...