Jellyfish are an important source of food for fish, sea turtles, cetaceans, whales and dolphins. They are therefore a fundamental link in the food chain in our seas and oceans. intotheblue.it ...
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. ...
At night, most fish slow down their activity, some species sleep, others enter a sort of stasis, others reduce their metabolism to a minimum while remaining alert and vigilant to dangers. We can say that fish actually take micro-sleeps both during the day and during the night.. ...
It often happens that anchovies make a ball like in the famous song by Fabrizio De Andrè and Ivano Fossati, except that in this case they are not attacked by the albacore but by saddled breams. As you can see in the video, everything happens in a few moments and this school of anchovies tries to aggregate to escape predators, taking the shape of a large blue ball.. ...
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, explosions of mucilage and toxic algae, a decrease in native fish species, a reduction in fishing and catches and, as can be seen from these images, a proliferation of jellyfish ...
After about seven years we returned to dive on the wreck of the Duckypoo plane, an excellent US F4 derived from a Lockheed P-38F, shot down and then sunk just off the coast of Cecina (LI), by German anti-aircraft during a reconnaissance in June 1944, during the Second World War. Diving on the Duckypoo wreck intotheblue.it ....
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 be distracted when they are hunting and it is extremely difficult to get close. By slowing down and enlarging the video we managed to extrapolate some images of this splendid fish. ...
Spicara smaris in italian Zerro, are those little fish that practically always accompany us in our dives to which we often do not give too much importance since we always hope to find more important species to film and photograph. ...
Like all summers we witness the "terrible proliferation of jellyfish" that scares us so much. Mediterranea Cassiopeia (Cotylorhiza tuberculata) (Mediterranean jellyfish, Mediterranean jelly or fried egg jellyfish) that we see in this video is a scifomedusa of the Cepheidae family, and is totally harmless. ...
In this video we see one of the mullet or mullet species Flathead gray mullet, Mugil cephalus, more common in the Mediterraneoan Sea. This fish usually lives in flocks consisting of numerous individuals. It is a gregarious species and a prey ...
Missing Island is a shoal halfway between the Island of Gorgona and Livorno. The shoal has two summits a couple of miles apart which rise to a depth of about 36 and 46 meters, from a depth of 80 meters on the side of Livorno and over 120 meters on the side of the Island of Gorgona ...
Snorkeling among swimmers in summer, preferably in the shallow waters of the rocky and jagged coast, it is easy to meet the sea bass on the hunt. European sea bass or Sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax, is a salt and brackish water fish of the Moronidae family ...
Seabream, Diplodus Sargus, is one of the most common fish of our seas and of the Mediterranean, it can be found in any type of seabed and habitat. It is a strongly territorial and social species, in fact it lives in groups of different individuals and different sizes. ...
Like all summers, we can see the birth of the fry of black Damselfish Chromis chromis. In the video they are well recognized for the characteristic of being of an intense electric blue colorr. ...
Il Muggine o Cefalo, Mugil cephalus, è uno dei pesci più facili da incontrare nel Mar Mediterraneo, vive in gruppi di numerosi esemplari ed è piuttosto facile da incontrare ...
Meeting these little blue fish is always a good sight. We filmed them many times, but we will never tire of admiring the beautiful electric blue color of their youthful livery ...
It is not unusual to come across the Seabass (or sea bass) Dicentrarchus labrax, in our seas, it is one of the easiest predatory fish to encounter along the coasts ...
This video was made this year in August, in Sardinia in the protected marine reserve of Capo Carbonara, where during a Freediving apnea I met many species of fishes ...
In this video we believe to have met the Chelon labrosus, Thicklip grey mullet, although from the information found on the web it could also be the Liza ramada. ...
Incontro fortuito e casuale fatto nei fondali della splendida spiaggia di Scivu in Sardegna. La Tracina Ragno, Trachinus araneus, è un pesce della famiglia Trachinidae ...
In this video we see a Castagnola Nera Black Damselfish that has been easily approached by the diver. Chromis chromis, commonly known as "Black Damselfish" ...
Mimicry. This word comes from the Greek mimetizo which means "I imitate" and it is precisely the art of hiding in a context to avoid being seen by potential enemies or potential prey ...
We are visiting a beautiful wall covered with a flourishing colony of Savalia Savaglia. After the visit our sub during ascent resumes submerged reef that runs from -72 meters to -81 ...
Mediterranean jellyfish are marine planktonic animals, belonging to the phylum Cnidaria, which together with the Ctenophores formed once those who were Coelenterates. We publish a collage of several jellyfish encountered during our dives ...