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Basket Star – Stella Gorgone – Astrospartus mediterraneus – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-09-26-11h24m56s999
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Astrospartus mediterraneus

I made you can see the Basket Star it with the almost complete opening of the arms because even though it was made during the day, I was at a depth of over 70 meters where the light is very attenuated. Beautiful and elegant, when it is open, it seems to see a refined female embroidery lying on the Red Gorgonia enhancing the beauty of the images presented to the diver...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Ghost Fishing Nets – Reti fantasma – www.intotheblue.it – www.intotheblue.link-2025-10-26-09h55m58s057
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Ghost Fishing Nets

The "ghost fishing nets" are a real problem for the entire marine ecosystem because they are made of nylon. A material that is not biodegradable: it can only be recycled following particular treatments and therefore creates significant pollution in the sea. Furthermore, as we have already said, it continues its fishing activity and therefore the killing of marine animals for many years.
Fanino Cirivasi
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Return to the Missing Island Ritorno all’isola mancata-2025-12-23-16h49m24s611
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Return to the Missing Island

Diving on this reef halfway between Livorno and Gorgona Island is always fascinating and an adventure. In reality, we're about 8 nautical miles from Gorgona Island and about 10 nautical miles from Livorno. We're practically in the middle of the sea!
Andrea Cirivasi
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Goldblotch grouper Epinephelus costae Cernia dorata intotheblue.it-2025-09-26-20h53m02s627-b
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04:12

Goldblotch grouper

Goldblotch grouper, Epinephelus costae is a common grouper species found in the southern Mediterranean Sea. It's usually found from Rome onward, where it's also called "Dotto" (literally, "Doctor") for its proverbial cunning ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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im Meeting with dolphins August 15th 2025 Ferragosto 2025 Incontro con i delfini www.intotheblue.it-2025-08-17-15h15m50s418
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Dolphins Encounter

Encountering dolphins in our seas is fairly easy, but it's one thing to spot them while sailing or see them leaping in the distance, and quite another to find them "playing under the boat", almost touching them. For us, August 15th has become a regular event. The video really was actually taken on August 16th, about 7-8 miles off the Livorno coast ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Golden anemone Condylactis aurantiaca-2025-08-10-17h25m59s154
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Golden anemone - Condylactis aurantiaca

Golden anemone, Condylactis aurantiaca, or sand anemone, is one of the most beautiful anemones endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, both for the colorful arms and the large size it can sometimes reach. On this dive in early August 2025, we are exploring rocky and coralligenous walls ranging from a depth of 36 to a maximum of 42 meters ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Maja squinado – Granseola o Grancevola -s620
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11:06

European spider crab - Maja squinado

European spider crab, Maja squinado (spiny spider crab, or spinous spider crab). This crustacean of the Majidae family was very common about thirty years ago, and specimens like the one we see in the video were very easy to find in the intertidal tidal pools, provided they had plenty of rocks to hide in and algae to grow on their backs to camouflage them from predators. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Blue damselfish Chromis chromis Castagnole blu intotheblue.it_T-2025-07-01-18h52m22s877
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Castagnole blu

Even in this summer of 2025, like every summer, we witness the birth and growth of the Black Damselfish, Chromis chromis, the only one of its kind Pomacentridi - Pomacentridae - in the Mediterranean Sea. In these sequences we see it in its shining electric blue livery, when the little fish are still small, a few weeks after the hatching of the eggs laid in winter, spring by the females and guarded by the male until ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Blue spiny starfish Coscinasterias tenuispina Stella marina variabile_intotheblue.it-2025-04-12-20h38m23s818
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01:48

Blue spiny starfish

Coscinasterias tenuispina, Variable starfish or Spiny starfish is an echinoderm very common in the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the most common starfish in the "Mare nostrum" and I would also say one of the most fascinating. Usually Echinoderms (sea urchins and starfish) have a pentaray symmetry. This species is indeed variable! ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Reproduction – Peltodoris atromaculata – Riproduzione – www.intotheblue.it -UOVA-EGGS-2025-03-23-19h12m14s485
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21:33

Peltodoris atromaculata Reproduction

When we explore our underwater reefs we are often amazed by the number of species that we find in a few square meters and as in this case even in a few square centimeters. We have said it many times that biodiversity makes a habitat and an ecosystem more stable, solid and long-lasting. Often we fail to realize the quantity of different species that live next to each other and obviously it is almost impossible to know ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Branched sponge Spugna alberello Spugna ramificata Axinella-2025-03-14-21h06m12s463
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Tree Sponge or Branched Sponge - Axinella polypoides

In this dive on a seabed of about 40-42 meters deep we encountered the Tree Sponge or Branched Sponge, Axinella polypoides, a sponge typical of the Mediterranean Sea that develops vertically often with various branches almost like a coral. Branched sponge Spugna alberello Spugna ramificata Axinella intotheblue.it ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Immersione tra le gorgonie-2025-03-08-21h19m37s582
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24:30

Diving among gorgonians II

Diving in this reef completely covered with branches of red Gorgonia up to two meters high is always fascinating. Despite the poor visibility our torches manage to bring out all the colors of the underwater world. They range from the scarlet red of the Paramuricea clavata, to the yellow of the countless Verongia sponges and the Parazoanthus axinellae, the sea daisy ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Zero visibility – Basket star-2025-03-01-16h01m34s711
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Zero visibility - Basket star - Astrospartus mediterraneus

When we dive at depths greater than 40 meters and far from the coast, about 7.5 nautical miles, it is difficult to make predictions about sea conditions such as currents, presence of fish and marine organisms but above all visibility on the bottom. If weather forecasts are now reliable and safe over 24/48 hours, it is practically impossible to predict what will ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Marine goldfish – Anthias anthias – Castagnola rossa-2025-02-22-15h46m44s117
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22:25

Marine goldfish - Anthias anthias

This article and this video are dedicated to the Marine goldfish (Chromis chromis), companion and guardian of our dives over 40 meters deep. This fish belonging to the Serranidae family (the same as the Mediterranean Brown Grouper) lives on coralligenous seabeds and begins to be present from 30 meters deep onwards. However, it can be found up to 200 meters and in our scuba dives ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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T_Leopard-spotted goby Thorogobius ephippiatus Ghiozzo leopardo-2025-01-26-17h32m44s059
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Leopard gobi

Leopard gobi, Thorogobius ephippiatus, is a shy and timid fish and is considered a rare species for divers to encounter. We find it quite often in coralligenous seabeds that vary from 38 to 42 meters deep as in this case. It is probably considered rare ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Biodiversity – Biodiversità – www.intotheblue.it-2025-01-11-15h39m18s489
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Biodiversity

We are on an isolated patch of rock and coralligenous about 7.5 miles from the coast; the seabed varies from 49 to 52 meters, the area to explore has a surface area of ​​about a couple of basketball courts (about 600 square meters X 2). All around a sea of ​​mud and a mixture of mud/sand separates us from the main submerged reef 400/500 meters away, always on the bathymetric of 50 meters ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Mediterranean Red Starfish Echinaster sepositus Stella marina rossa-2025-01-03-14h27m38s775
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03:30

Red Starfish

Red starfish in this video - Echinaster sepositus - was filmed on a seabed of about 5 meters deep while free-diving, in the waters of the beautiful "Secche di Vada". We often visit these areas near the lighthouse for various reasons: the exceptional transparency of the water, the shallow depth, the presence of Posidonia oceanica that despite ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Relitto – Melania – Wreck – www.intotheblue.it-2024-12-22-17h23m36s762
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Melania wreck

Even in this now forgotten summer of 2024 we returned to freedive on the Melania wreck. We often freedive on this wreck since the depth is not prohibitive even for the less trained. The wreck lies on a seabed of maximum 11-12 meters to rise to 9, considering the top of the bow perhaps even 6 meters deep.. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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White Gorgonian – Gorgonia bianca – Gorgonia verrucosa – Eunicella verrucosa – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-11-16h24m18s596
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White Gorgonian

White Gorgonian, Eunicella verrucosa, or broad sea fan, pink sea fan, warty gorgonian, is a species of colonia Gorgonian "soft coral" in the family Gorgoniidae. It is native to the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea. Eunicella verrucosa has a densely branching, fan-like stem ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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T_Moray eel Murena helena Murena mediterranea-2024-10-27-14h13m59s062
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08:58

Muraena helena

Mediterranean moray eel (Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758) is a marine fish belonging to the Muraenidae family. In this video we see it on a rather bare corralligious seabed at a depth of about 40-42 meters. Moray eel Muraena helena Murena mediterranea www.intotheblue.it ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Salp – Taliaceo salpa – www.intotheblue.it-2024-06-24-15h06m30s451
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02:25

Salp

During a decompression stop, after having carried out a scuba diving, the surface sea current carried with it numerous transparent marine organisms. They were various Ctenophores that I managed to identify. What you are seeing in the video is a salp. ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Ascidia mentula – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-20-14h48m31s665
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Ascidia mentula

Ascidia mentula is a species of solitary tunicate. It is found in the north east Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It occurs round the coasts of Britain but is seldom seen on the east coast of England or Scotland. Ascidia mentula has a tough leathery envelope or tunic composed partly of cellulose. ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Ostrea cochlear and Astrospartus mediterraneus – Ostrica Neopycnodonte cochlear e Astrospartus mediterraneus – Neopycnodonte cochlear – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-20-19h12m46s984
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Ostrea Neopycnodonte cochlear

Ostrea Neopycnodonte cochlear is a species of marine bivalve molluscs belonging to the family Gryphaeidae. This species have been recorded as fossils from the Miocene to the Quaternary (from 15.97 to 0.012 Ma). Shells of Neopycnodonte cochlear can reach a size of about 27–120 millimetres (1.1–4.7 in). Shells are usually brownish or purplish, ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Dorid nudibranch – Doride dipinto – Felimare picta – www.intotheblue.it-2024-02-08-11h48m18s079
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Dorid nudibranch Felimare picta

Felimare picta is a species of colourful sea slug or dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk i the family Chromodorididae. Atlantic Ocean species of Hypselodoris were all transferred to Felimare following a DNA phylogeny. Several species were formerly considered to be subspecies of Felimare picta but several have now been elevated to species rank ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Melon sea urchin – Riccio Melone – Echinus melo – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-21-11h50m55s944
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Melon sea urchin

Melon sea urchin, Echinus melo,  is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. This species grows up to 17 cm (7 in) in diameter. It is spherical or slightly cone-shaped, and the colour of the test is mainly pinkish, yellowish, or greenish-yellow, and banded with white and pale brown, giving it a segmented appearance. ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Basket star in appointment to reproduce – Stelle Gorgone in procreazione – Astrospartus mediterraneus – www.intotheblue.it-2024-05-22-14h14m12s619
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Basket star in appointment to reproduce

In many years of scuba diving I have never encountered so many Basket star all at once. Surely there are precise reasons to justify this concentration. The reasons can be various, the most logical ones lead me to think that it is an appointment to reproduce and that in these rocks there are optimal conditions, of currents and plankton, ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Mediterranean lobster Palinurus elephas Aragosta med-2024-05-19-21h03m38s001
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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 ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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diving point – punto d’immersione – www.intotheblue.it-2024-02-02-14h48m55s113
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Diving near Gorgona island

We planned this scuba dive in the area between Livorno and Gorgona Island. We are over 12 nautical miles from Livorno and about 6 miles from Gorgona, in the Tuscan Archipelago. In this area the seabed rises from over 100 meters deep to 48 metres. It is an area that we know well in the part between 48 and 54 meters deep, ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Giant Barrel jellyfish – Polmone di mare gigante – Rhizostoma pulmo – www.intotheblue.it-2024-03-15-22h14m33s424
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Giant Barrel jellyfish

Barrel jellyfish is a very beautiful jellyfish! and this one in the video is really big, probably the diameter exceeds 50/55 cm, as can be seen from the proportions of the undersigned's hand. It is one of the classic jellyfish of the Mediterranean Sea, perhaps the most common to encounter.. ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Falso corallo nero Savalia savaglia T-2023-12-08-14h07m08s056
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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, ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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Sand steenbras or Striped seabream – Mormora o Marmora – Lithognathus mormyrus – www.intotheblue.it-2023-05-19-15h00m56s938
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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, ...
Fanino Cirivasi
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Black seabream Tanuta Cantaro Spondyliosoma cantharus-2023-12-01-13h37m53s959T
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03:14

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. ...
netartstudio
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Variable spiny starfish Coscinasteris s082
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Variable spiny starfish

Variable spiny starfish (Coscinasterias tenuispina) is called this because instead of the classic five arms it usually has seven. It is therefore an exception regarding the classic five-ray symmetry of echinoderms. Furthermore, as can be seen in this specimen, three of the seven arms are very small and are therefore slowly growing back. ...
netartstudio
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Giant triton – Charonia tritonis – Tritone mediterraneo-2023-11-01-15h01m21s141
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Giant triton

Meeting Giant triton - Charonia tritonis - always arouses a strong emotion, both because it is the largest mollusk in the Mediterranean Sea and because it is increasingly rare. Fortunately here on intotheblue.it we have published several videos of this splendid shell so despite all the alarms we give about the health of our sea, when we encounter the Triton the hope that the sea can ...
Andrea Cirivasi
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T_Luria sea snail – Luria lurida – Ciprea Mediterranea-2023-08-22-16h41m46s397
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Luria sea snail

Meeting Luria lurida is becoming more and more difficult, then finding the shell with the mollusc inside alive is practically a very rare event. In the video we obviously see the Cyprean shell without the animal but given the sheen of the shell this mollusk was probably recently eaten by some predator, probably the usual octopus ...
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T_Pelagia noctiluca Medusa viola-2023-08-13-610
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02:30

Purple Jellyfish

Given today's many views on an article from a while ago: Purple Luminous Jellyfish - Pelagia noctiluca, we're publishing today's meeting with the infamous Purple Jellyfish. On other occasions we were able to get closer to the jellyfish and film it much closer. As you can see today it wasn't really the case since our jellyfish had completely outward ...
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