Whale rescue

Alberto Romeo & Lucia Romeo · Issue 12, Apr/May 2003 · pp. 32–33

Products mentioned: Nikonos III, Kodak Ektachrome

32 It was summer 1981. My wife Lucia and I with some friends Piero di Gregorio, Franco Capodarte, Leonardo Capodarte and Claudia Capodarte all of whom are members of Gruppo Ricercatori ed Operatori Subacquei (G.R.O. Sub. - an underwater association that defends and photographs marine wildlife, of which I am the president) were in navigation with our boat the "Maria Gabriella" (15 m.) in the south Tirreno Sea (Mediterranean sea) between the islands of "Lipari" and "Salina" in the "Eolie Archipelago" in front of the east side of north Sicily where the sea is very, very deep 2,000 m. (Canion di Stromboli) A place where the Giant Squid (Architeutis sp.) lives! We were searching for marine mammals. The weather was fine. The sun was shining, the sea quiet, no wind. Then it happened. We received a radio message that a whale was trapped near Lipari and Salina Islands and it was dangerous to navi…