An Archipelago not well known but for sure... 

a real paradise for the divers.

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The Tremiti is a spectacular site for those who love the sea. 

On top of the typical fascination of islands, here there is also the athmosfere of a land of banishment maybe due to its position, which is located on the limit between the deep waters of the Adriatic sea and those up north more usual and famous with shallow sandy waters.

For sure is a magic place . Alsmost a meeting point of all the creatures who populate the waters of this portion of the sea and at a certain point they decided to meet here and give the divers special excitement.

It is impossible not to resurface full of excitment and wish to take the rugulator off the mouth to comment with a friend of with the master all what you have seen as if the time for resurfacing could cancell from the memory all what you saw.

Every island has its own unique morphology and gives a big variety and a large number of dives that fit perfectly every different level of experience and capability.

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The Tremiti islands were appointed Marine Reserve with a DM of July the 14th 1989.

Since 1996 the area is part of the Gargano National Park. The restriction of the laws doesn’t limit the divers and the opportunity that they may have to explore the island.

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The Island of San Domino, as an example, it’s characterized by depths and underwater paths. These runs along the coast an inside the creeks. Almost the whole island is contained inside the C area of the Marine Reserve (*see box) and on the south-east side these creeks glides up to a depth of 25 meters with places full of seaweeds,posidonia, rock’s groups, gravel and sand, ideal to 

obseve octopus, opisthobranchs In the ravins you can see, litte lobsters, congers and scorpion-fish. On the rocky depth live red mullets, rhombus, priest-fish which are masters of mimicry. 

Inside the posedonia there are many Pinne 

nobilis and if you look up in the open waters you can see sargos,damselfish and cow bream.  Among all the dives we suggest the Scoglio del Sale, the cave of Sale, Punta Elefante and the creek of the Murene.

Only when going on the south side of the island, named Punta Secca B area of the Marine Park, the waters change is aspect and it opens up to a rocky dorsal that fall immediately into the deep,it goes down to even 45 meters and gives the 

opportunity to those export divers, to see fishes of lage size such as dentex, barracuda and 

amberjacks.

 

The San Nicola Island, on the other hand, presents itself with waters full of agglomarates and massive rocks which make the dives articolated and fun. Even on San Nicola, the most interesting side is the one on the south-east. The difference between this side and the south-east side of San Domino, is that the San Nicola side has a line at 25 meters deep which determines a net passage from an enviroment rich with splits and fissures to an sedimenary enviroment (there aren’t any Posidonia) which go down to very deep waters with few interesting banks but yet very demanding. 

For 2° level divers the bank of Ferraio is surely the dive that can offer a lot of special 

encounters. The Ferraio bank is a concentration of huge standing blocks within a desert area that offer good shelter, a good hiding-place and great place for huting to many fishes. 

This is the reason why at the Ferraio, it is easy to meet big size scorpion-fish, octopus, congers, morays, common lobster and large sized and numbers of lobster. In certain particular times of the year it is possible to see also some giant angler fish. 

This sight will satisfy even the most demanding divers, but at Ferraio it is impossible not to notice the soft coral, opisthobranchs, sponges that make the rocks very colourfull.

In such a rich enviroment the predators could not be missed. As a matter of fact dentexes, gilthead breams and bonito seems to patrol regularly the whole area in an obsessive way so that they can be seen even at a close distance.

 

 

The queen of the Island is surely Caprara due to its spectacular enviroment.

The nature of this island , is without any compromise. Dives are exceptionally beautiful and among all of them, the dive called Secca di Punta Secca leaves everyone breathless and it is counted as one of the 10 most beautiful dives in the Mediterranean sea. Part of its side is completely colonized by spectacular bicoulored, red and yellow gorgonias (Paramuricea clavata) of big dimension. The area is always busy with schools of damselfishs,silversides,striped bream, cow bream and saddled bream wich constantly challenge the agility and agressivity of dentexes, barracuda, bonitos and tunas. In this whirl and fights to survive, the divers are spectators of actions, strategies of attacks or defense which are normally peculiarities of filmed documentaries. Sometime huge scorpion-fish which lays on gorgonias, soffer for the fact that divers don’t even care about them as their attention is captured by the rest of the scenery. 

However Caprara is more than this...the plateau with groupers, the bank with black coral, Cala Caffè, Cala dei Turchi or the peaks of Elena or the Secca della Vedova are just few of the exciting dives the Tremiti can offer, difficult to forget.