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The Gulf of Orosei offers an enchanting and varied scenery: faces covered with a rich marine fauna, clefts caused by landslide, shipwrecks of the Second World War, underwater caves, and rampant pairies of posidonia oceanica (commonly known as Neptune Grass or Mediterranean tapeweed). As an aquarium, from the surface of the sea you will be able to observe and photograph the secret lives of sea flora and fauna which inhabit Sardinian coasts. The guides, the dive master Padi, will lead you through the many marvels to be observed with just fins, mask and snorkel along the enchanting "blue itineraries" of the Gulf of Orosei, taking half day or the full day.
Shipwreck KT 12
A dive accompanied by brown meagres, tunas and amberjacks to the wreck of the German cargo ship KT12, which can be visited inside and outside.
Average depth: 30 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 32 metres
Difficulty level: medium ( under best weather conditions)
Distance from Cala Gonone: a sea voyage of 20 minutes ( 7 miles)
This is what you can see: 88 metres long, armed German cargo ship, torpedoed 1.2 miles off the coast of Orosei during World War II, in June 1943. It lies on the sea bottom in an upright position but with its prow ripped open. Its inside and outside can be visited acting with adequate caution. It is inhabited by local fish species and deep sea species (amberjacks and tunas).
Prow of the KT 12
The prow of the wreck of the KT 12, which was torpedoed in 1943. Among its steel sheets you may discover moray eels, European congers, slipper lobsters, small groupers and shoals of damsel fishes.
Maximum depth you can reach: 30 metres
Average depth : 27 metres
Difficulty level : medium
Distance from Cala Gonone : 7 miles
This is what you can see: the prow of the wreck of the KT 12. It was cleanly severed by the torpedo launched by the submarine “Saffari” in June 1943.
It lies on the sandy sea bottom at a depth of 30 metres at a distance of 150 metres from the main wreck.
Only the outside can be visited. The inside is inhabited by a huge shoal of brown meagres and an enormous European conger.
Shipwreck Cala Luna
At a depth of 33 metres at the helm of the “Nasello”, an Italian cargo ship, which was bombed in 1943.
The steam propulsion, the helm and a big bronze screw propeller are still intact.
Average depth: 30 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 33 metres
Difficulty level: medium
Distance from Cala Gonone: 3.5 miles south of Cala Gonone
This is what you can see: a 50 metres long Italian cargo ship, which was bombed and sinked in June 1943. It lies on the sandy sea bottom, which is covered with Mediterranean tapeweed. It is broken into two pieces and careened. You can visit the prow and the central part where you can see the steam propulsion, the helm and the big bronze screw.
East bank
Off the coast of Cala Luna, among the rocks covered with sponges and white gorgonians, there is a world inhabited by shoals of brown meagres, seabreams and big groupers.
Average depth: 27 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 33 metres
Difficulty level: medium
Distance from Cala Gonone: 15 minutes of sea voyage
This is what you can see : a group of big 6/7 metres high rocks on the sandy sea bottom at a distance of about 800 metres from the famous beach of Cala Luna. They are covered with sponges and white gorgonians and inhabited by shoals of brown meagres and seabreams. Amongst the rocks there are the dens of big groupers.
The Cathedral cave A cave under a very high cliff which is covered with corals and yellow and red sponges.
Distance from Cala Gonone : a sea voyage of 30 minutes
Average depth : 10 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 13 metres
Difficulty level: low
Distance from Cala Gonone: 30 minutes of sea voyage
This is what you can see : a spacious sea cave which penetrates the rock under the cliff rising straight from the sea. The faces are covered with corals and yellow and red sponges. In the most hidden and dark parts colonies of Tube anemones (Cerianthus Membranaceus).
A cave under a very high cliff which is covered with corals and yellow and red sponges.
Distance from Cala Gonone : a sea voyage of 30 minutes
Average depth : 10 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 13 metres
Difficulty level: low
Distance from Cala Gonone: 30 minutes of sea voyage
This is what you can see: a spacious sea cave which penetrates the rock under the cliff rising straight from the sea. The faces are covered with corals and yellow and red sponges. In the most hidden and dark parts colonies of Tube anemones (Cerianthus Membranaceus).
Iron Stairway face
At a depth of 34 metres, there is a beautiful anchor which dates back to the last century. It bears witness to the historical importance of the area.
Average depth: 20 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 34 metres
Difficulty level: medium
Distance from Cala Gonone: 8 miles from Cala Gonone
This is what you can see : diving along the steep face with huge slabs of rock on the sea bottom and a beautiful flagship anchor which dates back to the last century. Area of high historical importance near to the marvellous beach of Cala Biriola.
Photographic interest: high
The tunnel
Average depth: 10 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 13 metres
Difficulty level: low
Distance from Cala Gonone: 6 miles southwards from Cala Gonone
This is what you can see: diving tours from a small promontory which is hollowed out by a 30 metres long cave (which continues beyond the promontory). The walls are completely covered by colonies of sea daisies, weathry–tuft tube worms, corals, and coloured sponges. Often they hide the dens of slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters.
Sea ox cave
You can explore the underwater length of the Sea Ox Cave for the first 100/150 metres and you have the possibility of swimming among stalactites and stalagmites and discovering the fossilized oysters that cover the walls.
Average depth: 3 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 8 metres
Difficulty level: high (there are sediments on the sea bottom)
Distance from Cala Gonone: 3 miles
This is what you can see: classic potholing-diving tour, but for experienced divers only. The cave - which is partly unexplored even today - runs underwater for several kilometres but you can visit just the first 100/150 metres. Passing through a low siphon you can reach enormous halls. From their muddy bottom, stalactites and stalagmites rise up. Ancient colonies of fossilized oysters cover the walls. They serve as dens for the transparent shrimps that live in the darkness of the cave.
Steep face Biridiscottai
Discovering cave fishes amidst shoals of damsel fishes. an emerald green paradise among limestone masses.
Average depth: 10 metres
Maximum depth you can reach: 15 metres
Difficulty level: LOW
Distance from Cala Gonone: 2 miles
This is what you can see: diving tour along a landslip face with huge limestone masses on the sandy sea bottom, which is covered with Neptune grass. emerald green water and shoals of damsel fishes encircle the divers and accompany them into numerous clefts created by the overlying masses. the area is full of cave fishes and moray eels. in the higher part of the face, the masses are covered with colonies of acetabularia (green algae) and peacocks tail, whereas on the sea bottom there are big sea anemones and weathry-tuft tube worms.
Sardinia is often described as containing the best diving in Italy and perhaps the best throughout the Mediterranean. Technical divers love the area’s caves, history-lovers are fascinated by the wrecks and beginners can ease into the water on a variety of shore dives. Among the sandy seabeds, maze-like caves and fascinating rock formations, divers have the opportunity to find eagle rays, tuna, groupers, barracudas, the elusive sun fish (March-June), dolphins, octopus, slipper lobsters, the Mediterranean bamboo shark, pipefish, breams, squid, crabs, scorpion fish and moray eels. Sponges, sea fans and red corals are also visible. Nudibranchs, sea horses, Pinna nobilis fan mussels and other macro life can be spotted year round.
RELITTO KT12 German Armed Cargo sunk in 1943. Resting on a sandy bottom, between 23 and 34 meters, in navigation position, well preserved. It is considered one of the most beautiful wrecks in the Mediterranean.
BANCO DI OSALLA Itinerary on an extensive bank of basalt rocks covered on the top by a dense Posidonia grassland; full of passages, dens, ravines. Interesting for the typical environment of precoraligene and coralligenous.
I BASALTI Basaltic rock canyon with wide passable cracks, large basins with deposits of white sand and bright green posidonia up to 14 m. Invertebrates are the protagonists of this immersion of "color". Sometimes shoals of barracudas and anchovies.
RELITTO DEL NASELLO Italian steam merchant ship cannoned by the English submarine "Safari" and sunk in front of Cala Luna in 1943. Situated on a sandy bottom between 30 and 34 meters.
LA GALLERIA A large submerged tunnel opens at 9 meters. Under a wall, not far from one of the tunnel openings, you can visit the entrance, open towards the surface, of a cave that ends in some rooms decorated with stalactites. Fossil beach of conglomerates 10 mt.
LA GALLERIA At 9 meters below the cliff opens the entrance to a cave that ends in some rooms with stalactites during the Cavern Diver specialty dive, you enter the cave with the guide line and it will be possible to reach the surface in three rooms decorated with stalactites .
GROTTA DELLE OSTRICHE Very suggestive for the unusual presence of fossil and living oysters. Numerous shrimps and mussels are seen. You can see columns and stalactites both submerged and in the aerial part of the cave.
GROTTA DI ACITUAN From the deepest boulders to about 22 m. go up along the wall towards the mouths of the cave, it has four entrances that create beautiful plays of light, two of them are separated by a suggestive rock bridge. GROTTA DELL'ORGANO Cave in which you can go back to a room with a large concretion with organ pipes. Inside, flocks of elegant corvine and apogon are often seen. Suggestive play of colors and light effects.
PORTICCIOLO Immersion on a sloping seabed from 12 to 20 m. of fractured sandstone rock in large blocks with bizarre shapes and very cracked: it is possible to see schools of black crows and solitary groupers.
IL PONTE DI BROOKLIN From an inlet in the very cracked sandstone rock rich in benthic organisms, follow the wall southwards up to 24 m. where a landslide of gigantic boulders creates a landscape of ravines and burrows with beautiful light effects.
IL LEVANTINO Wreck of a merchant ship sunk in the 1950s during a storm from which it sought shelter in a "fjord": now it lies between 12 and 15 m. It is interesting to recognize the various mechanical parts that shelter a large amount of marine flora and fauna. Le Lame Nord Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 19mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 1st level Le Lame Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 25mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level L'Archetto Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 28mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 2nd level Scoglietto Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 18mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 1st level Il Pontone Typology: wreck Current: weak Max depth: 28mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level L'Acquario Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 34mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level Cala Moresca Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 29mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 2nd level Arianna Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 19mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 1st level Arianna 2 Type: dry Current: moderate Max depth: 30mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level Arianna 3 Type: dry Current: moderate Max depth: 34mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level Punta Niedda Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 22mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 1st level
Sifone di Punta su Mastixi Typology: wall Current: absent Max depth: 18mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 1st level Aereo B26 Marauder Typology: wreck Current: weak Max depth: 13mt Difficulty: easy Minimum certification: 1st level Secca Pranargia Type: dry Current: weak Max depth: 18mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 1st level Panettone hypology: dry Current: moderate Max depth: 35mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level
Secca Su Sirboni Type: dry Current: moderate Max depth: 35mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 2nd level Capo Sferracavallo Typology: cave Current: absent Max depth: 11mt Difficulty: medium Minimum certification: 1st level