In the sea just waken up from the winter, from thousands and thousands of years men and tunas have a date, that both of them can’t miss: the first to catch food and prosperety, the seconds looking for warm waters where they can reproduct and perpetuate their species.
The tunas run along invisible routes, always the same, pushed from the current and men, who know that, are there waiting for them with long nets organized in huge chambers: the tonnara.
Tonnara
DIVING IN TONNARA Mobula mobula (manta) Caretta caretta (marine turtle)
OTHER SPECIES IN TONNARA !
Mola mola (sun fish) From the end of april to the beginning of june, during the tuna fishing season, we organize dives inside the Tonnara and excursions to assist the famous “mattanza”, the typical ancient method to catch the tunas. This kind of dive takes place in a system of huge rectangular chambers of net, that sink into the blue to a depth of about 40 mt.. Here we can admire shoals of tunas long about 80 up to 200 cm, and of about 100 up to 300 kg of weight. Other interesting meetings could be with sword fishes, sun fishes, mantas, marine turtles. The dives are organized in small groups to guarantee safety, and are guided a professional scuba diver of the tonnara and from one of our divemasters. Xiphias gladius (sword fish) go back
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