Floating Litter is a citizen science project that we are carrying out aboard Mediterranea in collaboration with ISPRA - Higher Institute for Environmental Prevention and Research and which concerns the reporting and documentation of the presence of marine litter along our navigation route. The term [...]
The Mediterranean Sea, despite constituting only 0.8% of the global ocean surface, is a unique marine basin in the world, characterized by a high biodiversity because it hosts up to 18% of all known marine species, many of which are endemic. Due to its conformation [...]
At 6.30 pm on Wednesday 30 June 2021, the Flag of the Mediterranean will be hoisted. Flash Mob / Celebration for the first anniversary of the only flag that is good to live for, never fight, declare war or die. General call: everyone hoist [...]
Are you ready to go? Ready! Mediterranea starts again. The expedition of Progetto Mediterranea returns to the sea on May 1st, for a new three-year period 2021-2023 of navigation, study and research, and documents. Through meeting, study, thought, ideas, exchange, values, sources, origins, people, [...]
(by Simone Perotti) Years ago, I was in charge as General Manager of a subsidiary of a USA company. I met periodically my colleagues, and all the time we had to face an apparently unsolvign problem, it was the Spanish, or the Greek, or the [...]
September 15, 2018 | Lisbon, Doca de Alcantara Crew Lagos-Lisbon, the people that closes the Route 2018. Simply, we. Our shirt, our colors, our boat, because in this week all the great Mediterranea crew was symbolically on board. With the eyes always, constantly, facing the [...]
The "Plankton Mapping in the Mediterranean Sea" project began in 2014 with the departure of the Mediterranean journey. The project lacks funding and therefore proceeds to take advantage of the voluntary availability of Progetto Mediterranea expedition, the Mediterraneans and the marine biologist researcher who deals [...]
Progetto Mediterranea expedition resumes its journey and enters its fourth year of navigation in the Mediterranean. Mediterranean vessel, a 60-foot-powered cutter ketch designed by Michel Bigoin, continues the route, carrying out its three objectives: nautical, cultural and scientific. Between May and September it will be [...]
(By Laura Murgia) Arkoi, Dodecanese | June 1, 2016 – Afternoon forwarded, take a bath in the sea in the Strait Ormos Bay, lazily when the sun begins to set. Mediterranea shares the harbor with another vessel, while a Gin Fizz 11 meters, with [...]
(...) Set sail for the Mediterranean will begin a long, slow, gradual, arduous, unpredictable return home. Which it is absent for too long. Where we have to find our rooms, lights, objects, sounds with which we were brought up, the lack of which [...]
