Mediterranean increasingly warm: record temperatures and jellyfish

Effects of global warming and the current climate crisis are seen above all in the sea which is becoming increasingly warm and salty. We are now facing a real tropicalization of the Mediterranean Sea which is leading to a too rapid and rapid change of this ecosystem, so we are increasingly witnessing an invasion of alien species ...

Unknow species

This video was taken last Saturday (14/10/2023) during an inshore dive at about 15 meters deep. I mention the precise date because during the canonical 3 minutes of decompression at a depth of 3 meters, hanging from the chain of one of the "safe water" signaling buoys, about 200 meters from the rocky and jagged coast, ...

Blue crab - Callinectes sapidus

Even we at intotheblue.it could not miss the infamous and by now famous this summer, Blue Crab - Callinectes sapidus - also known as Blue King Crab. We filmed it after several reports, on the stretch of coast between Vada and Rosignano Solvay, luring it with a bait to film it with the camera. ...

Mnemiopsis leidyi - Sea walnut

Also this year we met the Mnemiopsis leidyi, Warty comb jelly - Sea walnut. Fortunately, we have seen only a few of them, so at least for now there hasn't been the invasion of Mnemiopsis leidyi that we witnessed a few years ago. ...

Salpa maxima

Salpa maxima also arrived in the upper Tyrrhenian Sea or lower Ligurian Sea, that is, in the waters of Livorno and the province where we often dive. It is a Tunicate; at first sight it looks like a cross between a fish and a jellyfish but it is neither, it is actually a transparent invertebrate belonging to the order of the Salpidae subphylum Tunicata ....

Ostreopsis ovata and Caulerpa racemosa

While I was trying to film some sea anemones Anemonia sulcata and Actinia equina, I found a toxic alga: Ostreopsis ovata, and an alien alga: Caulerpa in clusters, Caulerpa racemosa. These are two algae now increasingly common in the Mar Mediterraneo,...

She is a Predator…! Even if it does not seems

Sea Walnut (Mnemiopsis leidyi) is a ctenophore belonging to the Bolinopsidae family. The Mnemiopsis is easily mistaken for a jellyfish because of its transparency, but it is far from being it and She is a Predator…! Even if it does not seems.

Alien Species - Percnon gibbesi

It is called Percnon gibbesi. It is an "alien" crustacean spotted in the Mediterranean, for the first time in 2009, in Linosa, but probably already present ...