A little jellyfish

The skindiver is watching a red fishstar

A strange seaweed Utriculum

Halocynthia papillosa, a common tunicate in Mediterranean sea, shootted in apnea skindiving.

The divers are near a very big gorgonian Paramuricaea chamaleon

A jellyfish (Rhizostoma pulmo) without his tentacles maybe eated by a turtle....

The diver is lighting the starfish that is ligting by a slave.

Divers during decompression stop.

The crab Percnon gibbesi; an alien critter come in Mediterranean sea from caraibic area.

My son wakebording in Mondello, Italy

Through to 2009 awards final round judging

A little Hermit crab in apnea skindiving. Mondello, Sicily Sud Tyrrenian sea.

It is NOT Photoshopped but it is a creative photo. It is done with colored strobes light abou at 1o m. deep in Tyrrenian sea Capraia island.

Marmaids.........
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Blennius gattorugine. photographed in apnea skindiving

Blennius gattorugine. Photographed in apnnea skindiving.

A scool of Diplodus sargus. Photographed in apnnea skindiving

A small universe of life, a jellyfish "Cassiopeia" surrounded by many fellow travelers. Are small species of jacks.

Fantasmagoric colors of bicolors Gorgonian (paramuricea clavata. Taken with Nikon D60 with Nikkor 18-55VR in Easydive Leo housing. Two strobes: Nikon Sb-105 and Sea&Sea Ys300.

The golden goby gobies is beautiful is not easy to photograph.

Abstract colors from Sardinia (Tavolara Park).
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A sponge, Axinella Polypoides, Tavolara Park, Sardinia

Hello?! is there anybody out there? sony w-330 YS-17 sea and sea strobe.

Discovery and exploration of the "wreck" :-;
Shot yesterday during my snorkeling time (I dont' know who is the lady diving..), note the jellyfish on the left corner of the photo.

It is not easy to shot this fishes in not protected area in Mediterraneum sea. I shot them in apnea freediving. The biggest is is Sparur aurata the smoller are Diplodus sargus, in background Sarpa salpa.

Freediving apnea in Ustica Island

This is a Juv. Gannet that I meet yesterday in the end of my dive that I photographed underwater ( see my last photo).
These birds are very rare in sicilians seas and are fearful, so I approch to him very careful.

Today when I go up to the surface I see this feet swimming, it was an Juv. Gannet that repose. Those birds are very rare in sicylias seas.