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02:16
Snorkeling - Sparidae
We have already talked about the Sparids, especially Sargus (Diplodus Sargus) and Sarpa salpa, in this movie you can see how they share the same environment ...
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02:08
Freediving apnea in Capo Carbonara Sardinia
This video was made this year in August, in Sardinia in the protected marine reserve of Capo Carbonara, where during a Freediving apnea I met many species of fishes ...
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02:41
The hunting of Seabass Dicentrarchus labrax
It is not unusual to come across the Seabass (or sea bass) Dicentrarchus labrax, in our seas, it is one of the easiest predatory fish to encounter along the coasts ...
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03:26
Food frenzy
Who of us in the summer, having lunch at the sea has never thrown a little bread in the water, to "feed the fish?" We know very well what happens, some species of fish are irresistibly attracted to the bread, and in a few minutes ...
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04:26
Salpa maxima
Salpa maxima also arrived in the upper Tyrrhenian Sea or lower Ligurian Sea, that is, in the waters of Livorno and the province where we often dive. It is a Tunicate; at first sight it looks like a cross between a fish and a jellyfish but it is neither, it is actually a transparent invertebrate belonging to the order of the Salpidae subphylum Tunicata, coming from the deepest oceans and very rare in the Mediterranean....
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06:46
Salema - Salpa sarpa
Salema - Salpa sarpa - is one of the most common and easiest to meet Sparidae species in Mediterranean Sea. It is a gregarious fish that lives in held of even numerous individuals. In this video we see it in various conditions and habitats that it shares together with other spawners such as Seabreams, but also together with predators such as Sea bass ...
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03:06
Bluefish
Bluefish is the "predator" in fact it feeds exclusively on other fish and cephalopods. Its favorite preys are mullets even if in this video we see it hunting in a few meters of depth, trying to capture salemas present in numerous specimens in a herd. As always, the encounter is lightning-fast and lasts only a few seconds, in fact the Serras do not let themselves be distracted when they are hunting and it is extremely difficult to get close. By slowing down and enlarging the video we managed to extrapolate some images of this splendid fish. ...
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02:25
Salp
During a decompression stop the surface sea current carried with it numerous transparent marine organisms. They were various Ctenophores that I managed to identify. What you are seeing in the video is a salp. A salp is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae. It moves by contracting, thereby pumping water through its gelatinous body, one of the most efficient examples of jet propulsion in the animal kingdom.