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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 ...
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Immersione tra le gorgonie-2025-03-08-21h19m37s582
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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 sponges and the arazoanthus axinellae, the sea daisy, to the red of the Corallium rubrum and the red scorpionfish. The pale pink ...
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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 be found on the bottom once immersed.
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Marine goldfish – Anthias anthias – Castagnola rossa-2025-02-22-15h46m44s117
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Marine goldfish - Anthias anthias

This article and this video are dedicated to the Marine goldfisg (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 it is practically omnipresent. ...
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T_Leopard-spotted goby Thorogobius ephippiatus Ghiozzo leopardo-2025-01-26-17h32m44s059
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Leopard-spotted goby

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 because it lives in ravines and holes that are quite inaccessible to cameras and therefore it is very difficult to see. ...
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Biodiversity – Biodiversità – www.intotheblue.it-2025-01-11-15h39m18s489
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13:24

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. ...
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Mediterranean Red Starfish Echinaster sepositus Stella marina rossa-2025-01-03-14h27m38s775
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Mediterranean Red Starfish

The 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 the frequent anchoring of boats seems to thrive and the distance from the chaotic and crowded coast in summer ...
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Barrel jellyfish invasion Rhizostoma pulmo Invasione di Polmone di mare www.intotheblue.it-27-16h43m59s467
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13:18

Barrel jellyfish invasion

The summer of 2024 was the hottest since temperatures have been measured, and it's not just the thermometer and measurement statistics that tell us this. As you can see in the video, this year too there was the usual, now inevitable, proliferation of jellyfish due to the increasingly warm sea temperatures. Barrel jellyfish invasion Rhizostoma pulmo Invasione di Polmone di mare www.intotheblue.it. ...
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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. ...
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T_Moray eel Murena helena Murena mediterranea-2024-10-27-14h13m59s062
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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. As always when we dive to film the various marine species, even if we don't want to, we are forced to document the conditions of our seabed and the health of our Mediterranean Sea ...
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T_Brown meagre – Sciaena umbra – Corvina – www.intotheblue.it-2024-10-12-21h24m40s760
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Brown Meagre

Brown Meagre (Sciaena umbra) is one of the most beautiful fish in the Mediterranean Sea and in this dive we met two of them on a rocky bottom of about 38 - 42 meters deep. As you can see we managed to get very close without scaring them and they then showed us their beautiful colors and reflections, captured by our torches and cameras.. ...
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Cushion coral Cladocora caespitosa Madrepora a ccuscino-2024-10-05-22h12m21s934
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Cushion coral - Cladocora caespitosa

Cushion coral, Cladocora caespitosa is a typical madrepore of the Mediterranean Sea, it belongs to the Hexacorallia class and to the Cnidaria phylum., It usually has a brownish, beige or dirty white color, this one in the video is unusually very white, probably because it is "still young". It is a colony of polyps that live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae algae. The polyps form calcium carbonate deposits that form the cells in which they live and that make the madrepore grow in size ...
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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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Dusky grouper

Dusky grouper or Mediterranean Grouper is one of the most wanted fish by underwater photographers for the colors of its livery and because as an adult it can reach considerable dimensions, on average over 60 kg in weight, for a length of 1.5 m. Epinephelus marginatus Cernia mediterranea Dusky Grouper ...
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T_Common octopus Octopus vulgaris Polpo comune intotheblue.it-2024-09-04-17h25m56s111
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Common octopus

Octopus is considered one of the most intelligent animals that we can encounter in our Mediterranean Sea. As you can see, it is a champion of camouflage, cunning and escape strategies. However, it also has its problems and if once camouflaged it is practically impossible to see even to the most expert eyes, a spoilsport fish like the Serranus scriba (Painted comber) ...
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European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus acciuga alice_s494
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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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Red gorgonian Gorgonia rossa Paramuricea clavata Sustainable fishing Pesca sostenibile_s230
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Sustainable fishing Red gorgonia

In the video you can see a branch of red Gorgonia, Paramuricea clavata, measuring over a meter in length, torn a few days ago from the reef where it was located, lying dying on the muddy seabed. This species and these corals when they manage to reach such dimensions are about a hundred years old. Collecting the coral from the seabed you can still see open and therefore alive polyps.
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Cassiopea mediterranea Cotylorhiza tuberculata-Rhizostoma pulmo-Polmone di mare-2024-08-15-17h57m01s469
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05:15

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 ...
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Luce del sole intotheblue.it-2024-08-11-11h48m32s861
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Colours of the Mediterranean Sea

Deep sea has an intense blue color. The light that penetrates the water changes its light intensity and its spectral composition by effect of  selective absorption by water of the different wavelengths that make up the visible spectrum. The ultraviolet and infrared stop the first few centimeters of depth, then extinguished the red, orange, yellow, green and purple and blue that reaches greater depths. ...
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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 ....
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T_Simbiosi tra paguro e anemone-2024-07-14-08h45m32s985
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Symbiosis between hermit crab and anemone

Symbiosis is quite frequent in the underwater world and in recent days we have witnessed one of the most classic forms of symbiosis in our Mediterranean Sea, that between the Hermit Crab (Pagurus bernhardus) and the Hermit Crab Anemone or Actinia (Calliactis parasitica). We are exploring a seabed composed of a coral wall that varies from 46 to 49-50 meters deep ...
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Mnemiopsis leidyi-2024-07-09-18h32m25s290
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Invasion of the Sea walnut Mnemiopsis leidyi

Also this summer we are witnessing the invasion of the Mnemiopsis leidyi or Sea walnut. This year we are in early July and the sea water is slowly warming up as always in summer. Punctually after a short and intense sea storm we witness an invasion of jellyfish, plastic, tree trunks and branches, various floating debris and as now every year also the Mnemiopsis leidyi, the now infamous Sea walnut. ...
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Relitto Genepesca Wreck-2024-05-28-16h58m13s777
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Genepesca

I dived on the wreck of the Genepesca, a "Classic" for those who frequent the seabed of the Vada shallows and the Livorno coast. The idea was to test the equipment, including torches and cameras but above all to try to make a video of the wreck without the mucilage that usually covers it in summer.
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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, as can be seen from the video, even large ones.
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Do octopuses grow tentacles again-2024-04-20-16h54m29s089
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Do octopuses grow tentacles again ?

The answer is yes! and in the video we see how this octopus is growing back its three tentacles in front of its eyes. The octopus is both a predator and a prey and it often happens that when fighting groupers, conger eels, moray eels and other predatory fish, our friend loses one or more of its tentacles, but saves its life by escaping. ...
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Discovering new wrecks-2022-07-12-18h00m53s355
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Diving on Carmelo Noli' s wreck

Carmelo Noli was a tugboat, now it is one of the many wrecks of the Second World War that we can find in our Mediterranean. We were on this wreck more or less two years ago, intrigued by some reports of grabbing by some local fishermen, which we then saw published in the Notices to Seafarers of 16 May 2012. ...
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Diving on Tabarka wreck – Immersione sul relitto del Tabarka – Intotheblue.it-2024-03-18-15h06m39s020
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Diving on Tabarka wreck

The history of the Italian motor ship Tabarka tells us how many of the wounds caused by the Second World War are unfortunately still open. The Tabarka was part of a convoy of seven ships that left Livorno and headed for Corsica, which headed south, south/west to get around some minefields present in the waters off Livorno and the Secche di Vada area.
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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. Here on intotheblue.it we have published it numerous times.
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Gilt-head bream Sparus aurata Orata – www.intotheblue.it-2024-02-09-20h39m28s091_T
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Orata

Gilt-head bream or sea bream is a fish that usually lives in open water, in this video we see a specimen in a hole, probably looking for molluscs and crustaceans on which it feeds. Often very wary of the diver from whom they keep their distance, in summer it is easy to find specimens, even large ones, among the swimmers. We surprised her in this hole so she found herself remaining in front of the camera for a few seconds just a few centimeters away and then definitively disappearing.
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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 immersion in a completely populated area of the colony of red Gorgonia (Paramuricea clavata), we discovered also some "rami" of False coral black, the very rare Savalia savaglia. Abbiamo documentato spesso questo beautiful coral giallo chiamato Falso corallo nero su fondali di circa 78 / 80 meters fine almost to 90 meters deep.
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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 really regenerate itself returns to be present. ...
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Unknow species Specie sconosciuta-10-19-14h13m05s681
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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, I decide to check the temperature of the water and the computer measured 25°C. ...
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Curiosity of the octopus la curiosità del polpo-2023-06-11-16h14m55s348
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Curiosity of the octopus

Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, is an extremely curious animal towards everything that happens in its territory and this makes it one of the most intelligent species in the underwater world. In this video we see him emerge from his den intent on studying the camera specially placed on the seabed to test his curiosity.We identified it thanks to the presence of some fish such as the Sciarrano (Serranus scriba) and Donzella pavonina (Thalassoma pavo), intent on scrutinizing its den probably waiting for some food waste. ...
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T_Aplysia depilans Sea hare Lepre di mare -2023-03-23-17h06m11s954
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Aplysia depilans - Sea hare

We publish another encounter with the Sea hare, Aplysia depilans, this time which took place on a depth of about 42/45 meters. We are on a not very high rock wall about 4/5 miles from the coast where, due to the now increasingly present mucillage, animals and marine organisms seem to have disappeared. ...
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T_Black squat lobster Galathea squamifera-2023-03-09-21h42m31s673
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Galathea - Galathea squamifera

We are in one of the many underwater caves of the Mediterranean Sea where the colors of the red coral, Corallium rubrum and Yellow cluster anemone, Parazoanthus-axinellae, explode in a splendid show that we can only find in caves. However, the caves are also the ideal habitat for many species of crustaceans such as the Galathea, Galathea squamifera, and the cave crab, Herbstia condyliata. ...
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