Diving in Italy

Red gorgonian forests below 25 m and a bronze Christ at 17 m

Reserve walls at Bergeggi island and cert-gated gorgonian secche offshore

A 62 m merchant wreck lying in 2–12 m of water off Pomonte beach

A bronze Padre Pio stands on a submerged rock at 14 m

Pinnacles, walls and granite shoals in two protected marine areas

Sea caves and sheer walls in the shore coves between the two towns

Barracuda schools crossing the seagrass in a marine protected area

A WWII landing ship in two sections at 19 and 30 m off a cave-cut volcanic island

Roman villas, mosaics and a sunken harbour inside a protected park

Gorgonian and red-coral walls inside Campania's largest marine reserve

Gorgonian walls on islets that top submarine mountains in a marine reserve

The Mediterranean's largest sea cave, with entrances from 8 m to 33 m

A dive at the Faraglioni stacks, down a steep wall to sand at 32 m

A third-century cargo of marble sarcophagi a short swim from the beach

Two Second World War wrecks and a limestone coast full of caves

Sea caves, walls and shoals on Salento's Ionian coast

Sheer Ogliastra cliffs, a barracuda shoal and three wrecks

Red and yellow gorgonian forests on the banks off the cape where two seas meet

Limestone caverns and walls beneath the white Pan di Zucchero stack

Granite seamounts rising to the surface off Sardinia's south-east corner

Grouper on nearly every dive inside Italy's oldest marine reserve

A guided underwater museum of centuries of shipwrecks off Capo Graziano

Amphorae of a Roman wreck on a volcanic shoal off Lipari

Caves, walls and the Capua wreck between San Vito and the Zingaro reserve

Roman amphorae and gorgonian caves in the Mediterranean's largest marine reserve

Basalt sea stacks, resident morays and an ancient-anchor trail off Aci Trezza

Punic and Roman amphorae and gorgonian walls in the middle of the Strait of Sicily

Grey shark schools at Lampione and the Secchitella shoal off Linosa