Sometimes, the most unexpected places offer the strongest emotions. This was the case for me with Siyal Island, which I discovered in August 2023 during a diving cruise to St. John’s, Egypt. Siyal is incredibly remote: it lies 5 nautical miles south of the Abu Fendera...
The following footage is from a liveaboard trip to the Farasan Banks, Saudi Arabia, in 2023. During that week, where I unfortunately participated as an individual diver and not as a group leader, I witnessed repeated incidents of serious disrespect towards the marine environment. Numerous corals were damaged by hands and fins...
This is a topic that is particularly to my heart, because it touches the safety of each one of us and, at times, it can make the difference between a memorable dive and a tragedy: the importance of having the GoPro ALWAYS secured to one's own equipment. Not a simple piece of advice for not losing the video camera and...
I dived for the first time at Small Crack in June 2024, during a “Sharm & Wrecks” cruise with Mastro Sommerso on board the M/Y Diamante. As soon as I put my head underwater, I immediately regretted not having been there before. Sha’ab Mahmud, the imposing semi-emergent coral reef on the route...
Too many times I see divers finning with the GoPro dangling, free to hit anywhere. It is a bad habit to avoid for many reasons. The most important is the protection of the marine environment: a GoPro that dangles freely represents a danger for the delicate ecosystem of the reef. It is easy to hit and break the fragile...
It is not easy that a reef shark approaches so to the GoPro: it must feel secure and, at the same time, curious. To obtain underwater footage of this kind, it is not enough to rely only on the video camera; it is fundamental to master the “triangle of skills” that I have identified, uniting three strictly interconnected skills that every...
August 2022, first post-covid19 cruise, with destination the Central Atolls in the Maldives. Enthusiasm to the stars and a lot of desire to film. I decided to experiment: I mounted on the stick the GoPro HERO10 rotated by 90 degrees to obtain vertical footage ready for Reels. The result? A disaster, for two reasons: The Impossible Framing and...