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Mucillage and Toxic algae Ostreopsis ovata

Also in this year we are witnessing the now common and usual phenomenon of the inflorescence of marine mucilage along the coasts of our sea. At the same time as the mucilage, however, an excessive proliferation of the microalgae Ostreopsis cf. Ovata. Qhese two phenomena should not be connected or at least should not occur at the same time so frequently ...

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August 13, 2024

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Cerianthus membranaceus

Cylinder anemone or Tubular anemone, Cerianthus membranaceus, is a species of anemone quite common in the Mediterranean Sea, its peculiarity is that it has two spirals of tentacles completely separate and with different functions. Those in the external spiral are long, slender and armed with cnidocytes (stinging cells) and are used to capture prey. ...

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July 29, 2024

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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 ...

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December 17, 2023

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Octopus and Date mussels Lithophaga lithophaga

Every time we go to the sea to dive with scuba, freedive apnea, snorkel or simply swim we always discover something new and different. In this video we found some Dates shell, Date mussels, Lithophaga lithophaga, or at least the shells of this rare and highly sought after mollusk! Octopus Dateshell Lithophaga lithophaga Polpo Dattero di mare www.intotheblue.it ...

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November 14, 2023

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Beadlet anemone

Beadlet anemone - Actinia equina - is one of the most common species of anemone or actinia in the Mediterranean Sea. It lives in the intertidal zone. The intertidal zone, also known as the shoreline, is the area above the water level at low tide and underwater at high tide. Simply put it is the area within the tidal range. ...

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September 24, 2023

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Mnemiopsis leidyi invasion

The main objective of this site is to film and photograph the various marine species present in our Mediterranean Sea and, as can now be seen, also in the "other seas". By publishing these videos, in a certain sense, even if we don't want to, we are monitoring and documenting the state of health of the sea and the various ecosystems and habitats. ...

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September 13, 2023

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European conger

Common conger is a bony sea fish belonging to the Congridae family. Here we see it in its lair at a depth of about 52 metres, on a muddy seabed at the base of a beautiful vertical wall, even a few meters high, of rock and coral. As we see, the wall is colonized by many Mediterranean organisms such as sponges, corals and gorgonians, ...

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September 6, 2023

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Protula tubularia

Protula tubularia, Pink Tufted Worm, Red Tufted Protula, is a polychaete worm. Polychaeta is a genus of polychaete annelids in the family Serpulidae. Red Tufted Protula Protula tubularia Protula ciuffo rosso intotheblue.it. In the video we see it on a mixed seabed between rock, sand and posidonia around 5 meters deep.. ...

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August 31, 2023

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Bluefish

Bluefish is the "predator" in fact it feeds exclusively on other fish and cephalopods. Its favorite preys are mullets even if in this video we see it hunting in a few meters of depth, trying to capture salemas present in numerous specimens in a herd. As always, the encounter is lightning-fast and lasts only a few seconds, in fact the Serras do not let themselves. ...

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August 29, 2023

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Blue Mediterranean chromis

Also in this summer, as indeed in all the months of July and August in the Mediterranean Sea, we can witness what we have always considered a spectacle of nature and of the "Mare Nostrum". That is the birth of the Chromis chromis or as we often say of the blue Mediterranean chromis. These little fish are truly to be admired thanks to their intense electric blue ...

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August 26, 2023

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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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August 22, 2023

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Red gorgonian reproduction

In this dive of August 15, 2023 we filmed an event that has not yet been documented much in our Mediterranean Sea. This is the reproduction of the red Gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata). Like every year in summer, this beautiful coral reproduces with the synchronized emission of male and female gametes released by the polyps which open by extruding thin semi-transparent filaments ...

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August 20, 2023

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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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August 13, 2023

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Haliotis tuberculata lamellosa – Abalones Haliotis Ear of Venus

Abalones or Haliotis are gastropod molluscs of the genus Haliotidae. In Italy the name that is used is Ear of Venus, a name that derives from the beauty of the pearlaceus side inside the shell. The external side as seen is completely different and looks like a concretion or a rock, and it is precisely for this reason that they are difficult to identify ...

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May 21, 2023

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