naturalistic
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Naturalistic and archaeological
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GROTTA DEI GAMBERI (SGENERAL DESCRIPTION The dive begins from the mooring buoy, from which you will
In pursuit of millions of crustaceans
The dive begins from the mooring buoy, from which you will follow the slab of rock until you arrive at the cave’s entrance. Turning towards the coast, you see a pebbly seabed that slopes down to a prairie of sea grass and ends in a rocky environment. The descent ends on the sandy sea floor at a depth of about 44 m, where the cave’s entrance (a large colourful vault about 19 m wide and 6 m high) is found. The cavity has a large main room with an irregular shape. The internal pathway is simple: keeping the wall on your left, you will pass behind a large boulder and will continue on for about a hundred metres until you emerge through a beautiful passageway at the end, at a depth of 27 m. Continuing along the walls, you will reach the cave’s exit, which is characterised by splendid light effects. The re-ascent begins keeping the wall on your right and the blue on your left.
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RELITTO DEI CANNONI
The barbary pirate ship of Punta Libeccio
Just north of Punta Libeccio, at about 100 m from the coast, a site known as the “Relitto dei Cannoni” (the “Wreckage of Cannons’’) can be found at a depth of 15 m. The gently sloping seabed, which is characterised by naturally split rocks alternating with clearings of sand and gravel, contains traces of an ancient shipwreck: eight cannons of uniform size and characteristics, six of which are lying in disarray along a vaguely rectilinear axis, while the other two are offset by about 20 m to the west. The total distance between the farthest cannons is about 30 m.
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THE RAS JEDIR SHIPWRECK
The shipwreck dive suitable for all skill levels
The shipwreck site is located almost at the centre of Cala Tramontana. The dive begins over a seabed 12 m in depth, which gently slopes down to a sandy plateau at a depth of about 7 m, where the outline of the wreck can be seen in the distance. The stern of the steel Libyan vessel, which was sunk in 2001, lies at a depth of about 18 m. Layout of the wreck: the stern lies to the north-west and the bow lies to the south-east.