Seabed of Ischia: beautiful secret garden discovered

Wonderful discovery in the Marine Protected Area of ​​the Kingdom of Neptune in Campania. An area full of charm and rich in biodiversity. Divers have defined it for its beauty secret garden. It is 60 meters deep on the south side of the island sciatica. This area extends over more than 11 thousand hectares. The secret garden is the further confirmation of the great and amazing Italian natural heritage.

A background to preserve and protect. You can see from the pictures taken: there are a lot of fish and a lot of colonies
of invertebrates, not so far from the tropical ecosystem. However, the undisputed protagonist is the false chorale
Mediterranean black. It is a colonial hexacoral reminiscent of the gorgonians.

What gives it its special black color? If it lacks the outer soft tissues of the defined octopuses
cenosarco, on the other hand, the tuber (the invertebrate skeleton) has an elegant black color. It has always been
was taken as a purely ornamental object.

The fake Mediterranean black coral it is protected and classified as a future species in danger of extinction. According to data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, its distribution was greatly reduced by spearfishing in the 1950s and 1970s.

Pietro Sorvino, a diver from Ans Diving Ischia and from the kingdom of Neptune itself, took the pictures of the secret garden. These are his words:

After 40 years of diving, the sea of ​​Ischia continues to amaze me.

The Kingdom of Neptune offers angles of absolute suggestion, the continued disclosure of which is undoubtedly the best way to ask everyone to help us protect it.

Antonino Miccio, Director of the Marine Protected Area