© MEGALE HELLAS DIVING CENTER, 89046 MARINA DI GIOIOSA JONICA
Fossa dei Cavallucci
★★★★☆
(747)
Access from the shore is easy for this simple but beautiful dive spot, boasting amazing biodiversity. The dive starts with a gravel landslide and sand afterwards, gradually descending to 12 meters, then dropping off rapidly, with an inclination of almost 45°, to over 400 meters deep.
Present a permanent colony of seahorses, in addition to the biodiversity of sandy bottoms: flat fishes, torpedoes, mullets and, according to the seasons, nudibranches.
Dive Activity
Potential Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 300
Alamy/Reinhard Dirscherl
58 Sightings
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2
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0
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5
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3
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15
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31
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1
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1
Alamy-WaterFrame
Common Seahorse
155 Sightings
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3
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4
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1
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2
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44
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74
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16
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6
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0
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5
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 120
SSI-Peter-Schinck
Cuttlefish
34 Sightings
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1
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1
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2
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10
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13
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6
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1
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0
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 3000
SSI-Peter-Schinck
Nudibranch
29 Sightings
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2
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4
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2
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13
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4
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2
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0
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2
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 250
Shutterstock-Henry_and_Laura_Whittaker
Grouper/Basslets
21 Sightings
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1
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0
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16
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O
1
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0
D
3
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 90
Shutterstock-Levent Konuk
Goatfish
17 Sightings
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1
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0
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0
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0
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15
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0
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0
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0
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1
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 7000
iStock-Michael Zeigler
Crab
16 Sightings
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0
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0
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0
M
1
J
0
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0
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15
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0
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0
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0
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0
The image shown is a representative illustration and does not depict every individual animal in this category.
Total number of species: 60
Shutterstock-Laura Dinraths
Electric Ray
9 Sightings
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1
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0
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1
M
1
J
0
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0
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0
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6
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