The road to discovery
In our previous posts we have talked about the Balck Smokers and their great scientific importance. The evidence that we have collected over the last few days, give us hope. As you know the Island Ferdinandea is an unknown destination and out of the reach of diving centers, which in this area can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The stories of those few divers told us of a few sightings of bubbles coming from the bottom. It is important to understand that the island, even after 200 years after its sinking, is unexplored. Over the years there have been some scientific expeditions, but none of this has ever made an objective study of the seabed with the help of divers. Those who have immersed, they did it with outdated equipment and always with air, reaching at maximum the foot of the volcano and only for a few minutes, limiting their activities in some sampling of rocks. The awareness of being the first to venture on those unknown depths in the middle of the Strait of Sicily is a strong stimulus and feeds the discovery of fire that burns within us. But back to the mysterious object of our research, those "Black Smokers" or "Fumaroli," which should provide basic information about the origin of the volcano. We have combined the testimonies of divers to Multibeam data in our possession and we were able to highlight two zones within which exist the possibility to find a clear rising gas coming from underground. Proceed according to schedule, our first goal is to map the volcanic cone and highlight in a first stage a series of geological and biological Main Target. The map will be a key tool in our subsequent search of the mysterious gas lift. To know every centimeter of the environment where we make our research is an indispensable condition for our success. If we manage to find the Balck Smokers our task will be to film them and to sample the gas that escapes from them paying attention to everything around them. The data we collect and the video samples will be sent to our scientific directors, who will analyze and study them. There is no doubt, if we could find one of these gas lift, this would be an exceptional find and probably one of the first ever occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.
We are ready ... and you?
In our previous posts we have talked about the Balck Smokers and their great scientific importance. The evidence that we have collected over the last few days, give us hope. As you know the Island Ferdinandea is an unknown destination and out of the reach of diving centers, which in this area can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The stories of those few divers told us of a few sightings of bubbles coming from the bottom. It is important to understand that the island, even after 200 years after its sinking, is unexplored. Over the years there have been some scientific expeditions, but none of this has ever made an objective study of the seabed with the help of divers. Those who have immersed, they did it with outdated equipment and always with air, reaching at maximum the foot of the volcano and only for a few minutes, limiting their activities in some sampling of rocks. The awareness of being the first to venture on those unknown depths in the middle of the Strait of Sicily is a strong stimulus and feeds the discovery of fire that burns within us. But back to the mysterious object of our research, those "Black Smokers" or "Fumaroli," which should provide basic information about the origin of the volcano. We have combined the testimonies of divers to Multibeam data in our possession and we were able to highlight two zones within which exist the possibility to find a clear rising gas coming from underground. Proceed according to schedule, our first goal is to map the volcanic cone and highlight in a first stage a series of geological and biological Main Target. The map will be a key tool in our subsequent search of the mysterious gas lift. To know every centimeter of the environment where we make our research is an indispensable condition for our success. If we manage to find the Balck Smokers our task will be to film them and to sample the gas that escapes from them paying attention to everything around them. The data we collect and the video samples will be sent to our scientific directors, who will analyze and study them. There is no doubt, if we could find one of these gas lift, this would be an exceptional find and probably one of the first ever occurred in the Mediterranean Sea.
We are ready ... and you?
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