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di Zucchero Is a shoal close to the coast. The top is at -24 metres, the
bottom at -43 It is crossed by a tunnel with an acute angle ceiling very
nice to be seen with clear water. Some years ago It was the melon sea
urchin Echinus melo kingdom but nowadays It Is less frequent and the
long spined sea urchin Cenrrostephanus longispinus is more common The
striped cave prawn Plesionika narval, the red and blue striped squat
lobster Galatheo strigosa and the typical organisms of rocky bottoms
live in the niches. I suggest to stop in the tunnel to discover all them.
Between the shoal and the shore some sulphureous springs come out. We
can visit a wide cavern (-23 mt) with muddy bottom and walls rich
of
life. Here Is what I called the common pen shell Pinna nobilis cemetery
because the valves of these dead molluscs planted in the mud, remind old
country cemeteries. On the outside wall, northwards, we see a lot of
giant pots like the ones near Grotta Azzurra. Southwards it's easy to
meet the golden grouper Epinephelus alexandrinus. We finish the dive at
Aunt Annìe's Cave with a series of coreographic
communicating passages driving out in the Inner part where we
make the decompression stop and we surface to see beautiful cave
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