Teta, the sailing boat made available by Lega Navale Italiana, with on board the skippers Dario Noseda, sailor, and Giampiero Sara, biologist, and the president of Triton Research Raffaele Grandi, who was joined mid-week again for Triton Research marine biologist Antonella Servidio set sail from the pier of the Officers’ Club of the Navy in La Spezia on May 15th at 1pm at the end of the press conference launching the sailing campaign as well as the first participatory event. Despite the weather not being on our side, the crew managed to achieve its objectives. In detail, the Ligurian week touched on the following protected areas: Cinque Terre National Park and Marine Protected Area, Montemarcello-Magra-Vara Regional Park, Portovenere Regional Park and Portofino Regional Park and Marine Protected Area. The marine-coastal sites touched during navigation were 16 (below the list, from north to south). The priority habitats of these environments consisted mainly of reefs, underwater caves, Posidonia oceanica meadows and submerged sandbanks. Among the most interesting sightings is that of a sunfish, Mola mola, the large pelagic fish that is increasing in these waters due to the abundance of jellyfish it feeds on. It is considered the largest among bony fish, being able to reach, in the case of specimens that live in the oceans, three meters in length, over four meters in height and more than 2 tons in weight.
Due to bad weather, excursions in the Cinque Terre National Park were postponed to a later date while on Saturday 21 April in Lerici, at the Castle, the second participatory meeting organized by Federparchi-Europarc Italia was held with the participation of the crew of Teta and the president of the Montemarcello-Magra-Vara Regional Park (which is entrusted with the Natura 2000 Costa di Maralunga marine site) Eleonora Landini.
