Aeolian Islands: open a submarine museum at Filicudi
The small Filicudi (only 9.5 sq km of extension), one of the Aeolian islands, contains in its bottom a small archaeological treasure: nine wrecks of Greek and Roman ships that were in dry abissate Cape Graziano, 75 meters deep. Up to now, access to the submarine but was banned in August from the first dive with patent second level will fall up to 45 metres accompanied by diving allowed. Clearly the leadership that will be provided will not be a simple sheet of paper (unusable at the bottom of the sea…) but a more practical support covered with PVC.
The itinerary, thanks to a marker that helps not to lose orientation, offers the chance to admire the wreck A, a vessel of Hellenistic dated in the third and second century BC, and to identify the silhouette of the wreck “G” covered with sand and dating from the fifth century BC and the City of Milan, a laying of the Navy sank in 1919. At the bottom are also visible wings of hydrofoils who impattato on dry, as well as numerous amphorae, pottery and equipment.
For now, then only the most experienced can visit the museum submarine but hopefully short, the cameras will be positioned to enable the vision of the wreckage of Cape Graziano via the Internet, as it was already done in Cala Gadir, the island of Pantelleria (see photo page webcam).
Tags: Archaeology, Diving, Sicily, travel