It has been a busy week so far. The island was very crowded and lots of taxi boats have been moving back and forth through the bay. The acoustic recordings will shown this increased level of underwater noise I am sure. We experienced quite few difficulties in finding the control area to compare to the acidified one. The area originally spotted as control is now not accessible because they found a roman city underwater and they are digging to reveal it. For this reason, we explored different other areas but none of them were comparable. We acoustically survey the bay, though, and this is a good achievement.

Scogli di Sant'Anna

It was also difficult to work with the strong wind that blew now and then during the day, but we learnt how it changes and we scheduled the rest of the week according to its strength and direction.

Nico was brave enough to jump in the water that it is still very cold. The “scogli di Sant Anna” could be a good spot, although the taxi boats are omnipresent here and the seabed is too deep for placing the tripod. We captured few other videos of fish from the southern area and we understood better their daily movements.

Underwater video recording