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Fishs - Labrus bimaculatus
Rhizostoma pulmo, BACKSUNLIGHT BIG JELLYFISH
Sorpresi
Clavelina lepadiformis on Paramuricea clavata. Taken with Nikon D60 and Nikkor 18-55VR. Nikon SB105 and Sea&Sea YS300 strobes. No macro lenses.
Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca; it is very urticant. Note the pink genitalia inside the umbrella.
My ideal monitor
Luminescenze: Nikon D200, 60micro, twin strobo
Ligurian sea
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MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE
Grotta Azzurra - Palinuro
Trigla
DIVER BELOW !
Nikonos 15 mm.
MERMAIDS
Painted comber (serranus scriba) taken in Portofino
The bavose, fish with horns
Picture taken during a dive in the Portofino Sanctuary. It's an egg of a Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris ) bound to a red gorgonia. During that dive (La Torre) we dove through a canyon where every second gorgonia had an egg on it. Was amazing :-))
Worms - Sabella spallanzanii (detail)
Flabellina affinis, -15 metres deep - Marine Reserved Area Capo Gallo- Sicily. Nikon 801s+ 60mm micro in Igloo Underwave housing+ Ikelite strobe
Recovery more anciens anphoras by an arab wreck of XI century
(with te permission of autorities). Nikonos+ 15 mm. Natural light
Fiammella
Cuttlefish (Sepia Officinalis)
Finding an ancien arab anphora in a wreck of XI century. very rare.
West side of Sicily, Mediterraneum sea. Natural light. Nikonos+ 15 mm.
Flabellina Affinis
Lucia meet the big trapped spermwale caught in an illegal drift net . The sperm whale was still breathing! So we immediately entered the water to rescue him, Lucia is astonished for the grandness and impressiveness of this whale.
The diver of my team is cutting with his knife the net in the spermwale's tail that go up and down 3 or 4 metres so the diver have had ear compesation problems and nausea. Note the injuries in the edge of tail.
Nikonos+15mm .Tyrrenean sea
Zeus Faber. Taken with Nikon D60 and Nikkor 18-55VR in Easydive housing. Nikon SB-105 and Sea&Sea YS300 strobes.
Torre Ovo (Puglia-Italy) - Petrified forest
I, my wife and our u/w team found a 60-foot (18 meter) -long sperm whale caught in an illegal drift net used to catch marlin. The sperm whale was still breathing! So we immediately entered the water to rescue him cutting the net with ours knives.
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