Mediterranean

Mediterranean

Discover the Cinque Terre National Park

Shallow Sandy Seabeds of the Mediterranean Sea

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Just an empty desert of sand? 
Let´s come and see the many surprises of Mediterranean Shallow Sandy Seabeds!

 

 

 

 

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Caves and Deep Habitats of the Mediterranean Sea

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Come discover the mysterious caves and deep habitats of the Mediterranean Sea!

 

 

 

 

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Portofino Promontory - The Christ of the Abyss

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Discover the underwater beauties
of the Portofino Promontory!
To discover more about the Christ of the Abyss see also The technological side of the Christ of the Abyss

 

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Il mare, un mondo straordinario

Have you ever dreamt about living underwater? Surely, you dreamt of thousands of colourful fishes swimming around, and of a green carpet of swinging algae growing on the bottom. That’s pretty fair. Nevertheless, aquatic realms have hidden secrets…Read more

Mar Mediterraneo

Mediterranean Sea – A sea in the centre of lands

In spite of its small size (just 1% of world oceans), the Mediterranean Sea hosts a huge variety of living forms, one fourth of which do only exist here. Today, the Mediterranean Sea is considered a temperated-warm sea. Yet, its long geological and biological history is among the most troublesome on Earth.Read more

The Project

Description of 4 seas

A world of water

More than 70% of our world is actually covered by water, a fascinating realm that produces one third of the oxygen we breath and hosts more than 140.000 different species of animals, plants and algae plus a still unclear number of microbial forms of life. Such immense biodiversity is due to the oceans’ long history and to a plethora of different habitats, which fostered extremely diversified evolutionary pathways.Read more

Welcome submarine Nazario Sauro-Galata Museo del Mare

Nazario Sauro S-518, a submarine belonged to the italian navy, gets to Genoa's Harbour, in front of Galata Maritime Museum. Built in 1976, disarmed in 2001, now is going to become a floating museum.Nazario Sauro is the first submarine that you can visit on the water! The submarine can be visited from spring 2010! 

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Cleaning the Sea

Is a workshop to pratice the techniques to clean up the sea after an environmental disaster. different prototype of instruments have been created to show to adolescent students how the water can be cleaned by hydrocarbons.

The operator shows different ways to do it: with skimmer (a disk oil skimmer, a brush oil skimmer), with different materials.

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