The Immersions of Diving Club La Sirenetta

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Water temperature

The results of 2011 June - September. Some immersions are indicated monthly.

Diversified dives

Show various routes and different depth

“Le Piscine”

• Sunken remains of an old steam ship vessel several of the ships boiler still remain visible while the rest of the ship lies deep below. Many old common shells reminders of forgotten battles can still be seen. Green “posidonia” provide perfect hidden places for brown groupers, shall stripped, while larger fish find hiding places among the rocks.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 20 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD new licensed, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 18 meters

“La Forgia Vecchia”

• Situated in front of a splendid black beach at the base of an old lava bed, there is a colourful shallow shoal full of  a Mediterranean organisms. (This site was filmed in collaboration with our staff for a TV program “LINEA BLU”  July 2000. The descend is down a mild landslide between spots of “posidonia” . The climb is along the rocky wall where you can find starfish and many shall  a year old groupers. During the night you can see (marvelous “alicia mirabilis”)
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 21 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 20 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD new licensed, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 18 meters

The diving boat between Ficogrande beach and Strombolicchio – June 2011

“Molo Ficogrande”

• Land departure in the attempt to meet “Mario” the conger eel , spots of “posidonia” parrots fish with the predominant male gray colored and several gaudy red female and more brown and golden groupers and morays. During the night “gallucci” and Balearic’s conger eels peeps out under from the sand an exciting encounter.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 3 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD new licensed, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 18 meters

“Lazzaro” 

• Beneath Ginostra’s houses you can find a few meters deep  several very important geological formations classified as “geotype” by expert. A big arch chimneys and all around Mediterranean organisms, groupers small and medium sized, “saraghi” and spots of “posidonia” and several blocks of cement from an unfinished pier …
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 20 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD new licensed, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 18 meters

Ficogrande with Strombolicchio on the background – June 2011

“Lo Scoglietto della Sciara”

• Many ships that encountered this reef and whished they never had they wouldn’t wanted. I remember years back the ex minister Misasi’s boat was holded ashore after an unfortunate experience with the reef “scoglietto” . The semi submerged reef invisible with mild sea. Big shoals ten meter high reefs rest of basaltic rock surrounded by rich Mediterranean organisms and marine life. A tranquill dive.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: July 19/26, August. 25/27° C
• Distance from the Diving : 20 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD new licensed, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 18 meters

NOW THE DIVING IS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF PROHIBITION OF CIVIL PROTECTION

“Il Culo di zia Caterina”

• Reaching the dive site and anchoring the boat looking up at the overhanging rocks you can redly understand how this place got its name. Whoever aunt Caterina was still remains a mistery. In the 19^th century literature the arciduke of Austria cited this name in maps and we are awaited by a gentle easy going interesting slope. Surrounded by curious groupers and other fine speciments of Mediterranean organisms and marine life.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 20 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD new licensed, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 18 meters

Daniele, Ficogrande - may 2011

“Secca di Mezzo”

• Surrounded by a beautiful black sandy beach lies an exceptional sand bank where some where same of the most important examples of Mediterranean marine plants grow, enormous stretches of “posidonia” interrupted here and there by basaltic rocks. Endemic marine organisms, large quantity of brown groupers gold groupers and than  big barracuda a meter long which remain in the area till July and August. A beautiful sponge covered colorful vault and again lots and lots of groupers. All within 25 meters of the surface.
• Possibility encountering: stingrays and “ricciole”
• Underwater current: light/medium strengh current may occur
• Water Temperature: June 20/23, July 20/26, August. 22/28, September 20/27 °C
• Distance from the Diving: 5 minutes
• Diving skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

“Punta Lena”

• Rockslide and wall running parallel to the coast. Green “posidonia” , brown grouper and gold grouper. Two big fissure go down in the abiss. What’s the origine Shall stripped, “occhiate”.
• Possibility encountering: Squell, lobster, groupers
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: July 17/27, August. 20/27 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 30 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

“La Colata del 1985”

• The last notable eruption that reached the sea was in 1985. The firy lava flow proceded for 30/40 meters. The sea bed is a rockslide. The bentonic life is scarce. Further from the coast there are beautiful promontories around which big grouper, golden grouper, barracuda, “occhiate”, “castagnole”.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 15 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

NOW THE DIVING IS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF PROHIBITION OF CIVIL PROTECTION

Sciara of Fire what left of 2007 eruption – June 2011

“Le Ancore di Piscità” 

• Piscità the most beautiful inhabited part of the island, basaltic rockcliffs overhanging the sea, EOLO’cave, the “scariu Balordi”. Here the houses are on the sea front. We start from ten meter depth dive. A crested rockslide. At 31 meters lies a large anchor probably from the last century perfectly conserved and full of marine organisms. Near another anchor not well conserved. A large chain can be seen running from the anchor only to be lost in the sand. Around brown grouper and golden grouper. Depth contour rockslide and fissures.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 5 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

“Le Gorgonie dello Scoglietto”

• Many ships that encountered this reef and whished they never had they wouldn’t wanted. I remember years back the ex minister Misasi’s boat was holded ashore after an unfortunate experience with the reef “scoglietto” . The semi submerged reef invisible with mild sea. Big shoals ten meter high reefs rest of basaltic rock surrounded by rich Mediterranean organisms and marine life. From the coast we proceed along the sea bottom. We can see some promontory covered of red sea-fans (paramuricea clavata), around brown grouper, golden grouper, “occhiate”
• Possibility encountering: stingrays and barracuda
• Underwater current: light/medium strengh current may occur
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving: 15 minutes
• Diving skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

NOW THE DIVING IS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF PROHIBITION OF CIVIL PROTECTION

“Le Cernie di Piscità”

• Piscità The most beautiful inhabited part of the island, basaltic rockcliffs overhanging the sea, EOLO’cave, the “scariu Balordi”. Here the houses are on the sea front. We start from ten meter depth dive. The rocky formation that we found are original. Thirty meter we meet some picks. Around brown grouper and golden grouper that in this particular habitat, gorges, holes they found their den. Depth contour rockslide.
• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 5 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

Prof. Danilo Russo – Zoologist- Diving Centre Consultant – June 2011

 “La Nuova Sciara”

• Beneath millenari lava-flows, last eruption in 1985, a basaltic flat stone 12mt deep. Likewise  a big step, a plunge into the deep blu all around the black lava color the sea battom is invisible, the wall is perfectly vertical. The dive is possible only during particular hour of the dive when the sunlight hit the wall. The wall is full of endemic marine organisms.Here it is possible to admire several “pinne nobilis” in their habitat. Full of curious and intriguin brown and golden groupers “mustelle” and moray that appear from their dens. A marvellous ten meter vault with “parazoanthus”, “astroides” and spotted with sponges. From here start the dive of “La nuova sciara” , you have never seen in Mediterranean moray so big out of their den and all around “castagnole”  (cromis-cromis). The “Sciara”  totaly new, totaly to discover.
• Possibility encountering: stingrays and barracuda
• Underwater current: light/medium strengh current may occur
• Water Temperature: June 18/27, July 18/27, August. 21/27, September 22/26 C°
• Distance from the Diving: 15 minutes
• Diving skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

NOW THE DIVING IS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF PROHIBITION OF CIVIL PROTECTION

“La Secca di Fuori” 

Pushing ourselves further "out" considering our other sandbanks, scattered basaltic rocks make irregular patterns that form a path, very easy, but not little thrilling for this. This is surely one of the richest immersions, also because it's a place not very noticed, in which the few privileged that know are very jealous. One who immerses above the biggest of these rocks only 15 meters from the surface, from here begins to swim between the brown and golden groupers, that share the environment with the always more frequent parrot fish, and then it's not difficult in the gorges to meet crustaceans and shellfish while above ripples are moving in the blue with glances from the barracudas.

• No underwater current
• Water Temperature: min. 18 °C max 26 C°
• Distance from the Diving : 12 minutes
• Diving Skills: OWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 30 meters

“Le Terrazze”

• Stones big as houses once leaning upon the others caves, passages all with an incredibile simmetria and covered by fabulous red sea-fans, pentagonal star fish, melon sea-urchin, barracuda “occhiate”, golden and brown groupers
• Possibility encountering: “dentici” and groupers
• Underwater current: light/medium strengh current may occur
• Water Temperature:  June 15/23, July 16/26, August 16/28, September 18/26 °C
• Distance from the Diving: 10 minutes
• Diving skills: AOWD, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 40 meters - AOWD experts, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 50 meters

“La Secca di Scirocco”

• A magnificient monolith with its peak is 20 meters deep. Perfectly perpendicular walls every where covered by red sea-fans, “clavelline”, melon sea urchin, black coral and the rare “astrospartus”. Enormous brown groupers clearly visiblein their dens and others groupers in the deep blu. Moray and lots of fish which is unbelievable!  A dive that everyone wants to repeat.
• Possibility encountering: pelagics fish,  “ricciole” and tuna
• Underwater current: strong current
• Water temperature: June 16/24, July 17/27, August 17/27, September 16/27 °C
• Distance from the diving: 10 minutes
• Qualification: good buoyancy, total trust in the guide, over 50 dives recorded on your log-book
• Conditions for admittance: valuetion by a personnel manager of the diving or valuetion by diving staff
• Diving skills: AOWD expert, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 45 meters

The Scirocco Shoal close o Strombolicchio is just underneath the boat in the fourth

Photo June 2011

The Scirocco Shoal close o Strombolicchio is just underneath the boat in the fourth. Photo June 2011

“La Pietra di Strombolicchio”

• Near Strombolicchio there is a big rock similar to the back on a mule that running along the reef, the depth is 35/40mt. Around a rockslide, scarce marine life, but a lots of dens with enormous brown and golden groupers. Several red sea-fans (paramuricea clavata) , strong current. A lots of sea-urchin.The sea bed is a rockslide with “the rock
• Possibility encountering: pelagics fish,  “ricciole” and tuna
• Underwater current: strong current
• Water temperature: minimum 18 °C  - maximum 25 °C
• Distance from the diving: 10 minutes
• Qualification: good buoyancy, total trust in the guide, over 50 dives recorded on your log-book
• Conditions for admittance: valuetion by a personnel manager of the diving or valuetion by diving staff
• Diving skills: AOWD, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 40 meters

“Sotto la Pietra di Strombolicchio”

• Near Strombolicchio there is a big rock similar to the back on a mule that running along the reef, the depth is 35/40mt. Around a rockslide, scarce marine life, but a lots of dens with enormous brown and golden groupers. Several red sea-fans (paramuricea clavata) , strong current. A lots of sea-urchin. To go on over 50mt the groupers are not suspicios and we can approach them. The sea-urchin cover this part of the sea bed, the depth is 60mt.The sea bed is a rockslide with “the rock”.
• Possibility encountering: pelagics fish,  “ricciole” , tuna and sharks
• Underwater current: strong /medium strengh current may occur
• Water temperature: minimum 18 °C  - maximum 25 °C
• Distance from the diving: 10 minutes
• Diving skills: TXR Decompression Procedures, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 50 meters

“Alla base della Secca di Scirocco” 

• A magnificient monolith with its peak is 20 meters deep. Perfectly perpendicular walls every where covered by red sea-fans, “clavelline”, melon sea urchin, black coral and the rare “astrospartus”. Enormous brown groupers clearly visiblein their dens and others groupers in the deep blu. Moray and lots of fish which is unbelievable! The depth of this sea bed is 60/70mt and it is one of the beautiful thing that you imagine in your mind. A dive that everyone wants to repeat.
• Possibility encountering: pelagics fish,  “ricciole” , tuna and sharks
• Underwater current: strong /medium strengh current may occur
• Water temperature: minimum 18 °C  - maximum 25 °C
• Distance from the diving: 10 minutes
• Diving skills: TXR Decompression Procedures, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 50 meters

“L’Ancora della Sciara”

• Beneath millenari lava-flows, last eruption in 1985, a basaltic flat stone 12mt deep. Likewise  a big step, a plunge into the deep blu all around the black lava color the sea battom is invisible, the wall is perfectly vertical. The dive is possible only during particular hour of the dive when the sunlight hit the wall. The wall is full of endemic marine organisms.Here it is possible to admire several “pinne nobilis” in their habitat. Full of curious and intriguin brown and golden groupers “mustelle” and moray that appear from their dens. A morvellous ten meter vault with “parazoanthus”, “astroides” and spotted with sponges. A big ship’s chain rich of memories grasped to the wall descends down into the depth where at 52 meters a large chain from the forgotten times.
• Possibility encountering: “mustelle” and groupers
• Underwater currrent: scarce, light speed
• Water temperature: minimum 18 °C  - maximum 25 °C
• Distance from the diving: 10 minutes
• Diving skills: TXR Decompression Procedures, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 50 meters

The anchor  at la Sciara is not there anymore, the December 2002 slope landslip has swallowed it in Stromboli sea abyss…

NOW THE DIVING IS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE OF PROHIBITION OF CIVIL PROTECTION

"Al fondo delle Terrazze"

• Stones big as houses once leaning upon the others caves, passages all with an incredibile simmetria and covered by fabulous red sea-fans, pentagonal star fish, melon sea-urchin, barracuda “occhiate”, golden and brown gropers.Down the bottom and the atmosphereis velvet, nearly unreal, on the contrari is true, true the fish “ricciole” around us and true the “dentici”.
• Possibility encountering: pelagics fish,  “ricciole” and tuna
• Underwater current: scarce light speed
• Water temperature: minimum 18 °C  - maximum 25 °C
• Distance from the diving: 10 minutes
• Diving skills: TXR Decompression Procedures, maximum 4 divers, maximum depth 50 meters