Filicudi & Salina · Italy · Pinnacle · Reef
Faraglione di Pollara
Moray eels and octopus in the jagged rock of Pollara's sea stack
Photo: Ghost-in-the-Shell · CC BY 2.0
A jagged sea stack in Pollara bay on Salina, dived from a boat moored in the bay. Moray eels, octopus and small groupers live around the rock, and deeper down the seabed turns to dark sand, boulders and seagrass. It suits divers with little experience and reaches 24 m at most.
Also known as Pollara.
Where it is and how deep
38.5795° N, 14.8009° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.
The dive
From the mooring in the bay the dive drops around the stack, whose broken rock is home to many moray eels, octopus and small groupers, with starfish, orange star coral, tube anemones and sea bream around it.
Going deeper the scene changes: the seabed becomes dark volcanic sand and boulders with a few meadows of posidonia seagrass, down to a deepest point of 24 m.
Marine life and season
- Octopus & cuttlefish
- Groupers
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Fair | Fair | Good | Good | Good | Good |
Season follows Filicudi & Salina: July and August bring the crowds and the warmest sea, near 26 °C; February bottoms out near 14 °C, and boats on Salina dive in winter too.
Sources
- Immersioni a Salina — eolie.eu
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap
Photo credits
- A dark rock stack in a deep blue bay below grey cliffs, with several small boats moored around it by Ghost-in-the-Shell, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Filicudi's most striking sea stack, where the sunset turns the island red
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Reef
A huge boulder ringed by schools of sea bream off the sandy bank
Seamount
A single rock monolith rising from 40 m to within 6 m of the surface
Seamount
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