Diving itineraries Lipari

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Le Formiche
This is an extremely varied dive site, where you can enjoy snorkeling as well as diving.

Once under water, you will immediately be aware that the Formiche are just the tips of a very large reef with multi-coloured walls, huge rocks and many grottoes and tunnels.
The surrounding sea bed is covered in seaweed which hides sponges, nudibrancho, pinna comune, castagnole.

Depth:
1 mt. min. - 30 mt. max
Grade of difficulty:
medium/easy

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Punta Castagna
A dive in unreal scenery. A platform at 10 metres, completely covered with white pumice that originates from the pumice mines above, and reminds us of a snow covered roof-top in a skiing resort.

From there down to the depths, run steep channels. Following one of these, we go from a white to multi-coloured scenery, a vertical cliff that runs towards the out of sight navy blue sea floor.

Depth:
10 mt. min. - 40 mt max
Grade of difficulty:
challenging

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Pietra del bagno
A beautiful dive, where we circumnavigate the rock.

For divers of all levels, with multi-coloured rock faces, and interesting sea life.

Depth:
20 mt min. - 40 mt max
Grade of difficulty:
medium easy

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Secca del Bagno
The Secca del Bagno in without doubt one of the most interesting dive sites in the Eolian Arcipelago, and is not very easy to find. It is not an easy dive.

It consists of three submerged points, the highest of which is at a depth of 22 mt.
The walls are very colourful and are alive with colonies of gorgonie rosse.
The huge boulders at the base are home to huge groupers. During the decompression stop, we quite often meet shoals of ricciole.

Depth:
40 mt min. - 45 mt max
Grade of difficulty:
difficult

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Pietra Menalda
This is one of the splendid rocks found on the southern side of Lipari, and offers divers a special naturalistic site.

The most interesting dive is to circumnavigate the rock at a depth of between 18 and 40 mt.
There are huge rocks that make homes to octopus, eels, groupers and mustele.

Depth:
18 mt min. - 40 mt max
Grade of difficulty:
medium

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Parete dei Gabbiani
This is a unique dive site off the island of Lipari.
Lava rock walls and areas of white pumice create an interesting contrast.

The walls have been colonized by huge red and yellow gorgonie where there are also cracks that are home to lobsters, and where it is not rare to meet parrot fish and huge groupers. We also find various species of nudibranco and cerianthus.

Depth:
20 mt min. - 45 mt max
Grade of difficulty:
medium

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Secca delle Formiche
This reef is visible to the naked aye from the island of Lipari because of the crystalline transparency of the surrounding water.

The reef is formed out of two rocks that reach the depth of 30 mt. and 10 mt. This is a very interesting naturalistic and faunistic dive. There are many species of eels, lobster, prawns, scorpion fish, nidibranco, groupers, octopus and parrot fish.

The dive is not difficult, and can be very relaxing and pleasant.

Depth:
18 mt min. - 30 mt max
Grade of difficulty:
easy

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Scoglio dei Monaci
An absolutely fascinating dive, for the morphological character of the area.
We descend perpendicularly to the coast, following a natural channel, and we immediately come across a vertical cliff face, which we follow at a depth of 35 mt. that is covered in red gorgonie.
The walls are full of cracks which are home to many lobsters, mustela and groupers.

Depth:
25 mt min. - 45 max
Grade of difficulty:
medium/difficult

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