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. ...
Night Encounters Gilt-head Bream – Incontri notturni Orata – Sparus aurata – www.intotheblue.it_s471
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Night Encounters - Gilt-head bream

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.. ...
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Anchovies make a ball

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.. ...
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Mediterranean increasingly warm: record temperatures and jellyfish

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 ...
Diving on the Duckypoo wreck Immersione sul relitto del Duckypoo-2024-07-19-09h28m31s963
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Diving on the Duckypoo wreck

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 Pomatomus saltatrix Pesce serra-2023-08-21-18h54m01s033
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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 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. ...
T_Zerro Spicara smaris Picarel www.intotheblue.it-2022-08-30-23h18m22s857
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Picarel - Spicara smaris

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. ...
Missing Island L’Isola mancata www.intotheblue.it-2021-08-17-11h04m06s568
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Missing Island

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 ...
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Seabass hunting

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 ...
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The hole of Seabream

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. ...
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Blue Chromis Chromis

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. ...
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Mimetismo

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 ...
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Mediterranean jellyfish

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 ...