#Talamone sea

[bumblebeeappletree]

The Mediterranean Sea is in crisis. Once a thriving spot for biodiversity, it is now the most overfished sea in the world and, according to the WWF, is "on the verge of burnout."

Why? Bottom trawling—a destructive fishing method where nets are dragged along the seabed, catching or destroying everything in their path.

For our 21st Planet Wild mission, we're supporting a beautiful and effective method to stop bottom trawling and protect marine life: an underwater sculpture museum.

Many thanks to the five selected artists who donated their work to the museum: Nikolas Maniatakos, Maria Grazia Collini, Abdulkadir Hocaoglu, Stefano Corti, and Giacomo Bernardi.

A special thanks to Greenpeace, Camilla Salghetti, Barbara Farnetani and Santiago Burin Des Roziers for providing us with additional footage.

0:00 Art that saves the Mediterranean

1:10 The ecosystem of the Talamone sea

2:33 Meet Paolo, the ocean protector

3:18 What’s destroying the seabed?

4:31 Paolo’s fight for the ocean

5:31 How we’re using art to protect the sea

8:09 The underwater museum

10:11 Our support

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Sassetta’s City by the Sea (view of Talamone), (c1340), in Siena’s Pinacoteca

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Tuscany # sea# Talamone

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Simplythebest #tuscany#talamone #sea#summercomingsoon 🐲🧡 (presso Talamone, Toscana, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPIgHAcL3M5/?utm_medium=tumblr

[just-wanna-travel]

Talamone, Italy

[eliamora]

𝙸 𝚌𝚊𝚗'𝚝 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚍. 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎 2020 ∆ #talamone #toscana #tuscany #maremma #sea #mare #beach #beachlife #travel #traveling #vacation #instatravel #instago #instagood #trip #holiday #photooftheday #fun #travelling #instatraveling #mytravelgram #travelgram #travelingram #igtravel (presso Talamone Camping Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CESTO1Mo1NN/?igshid=1vjvepk58p9cv

[linazelonka]

the most beautiful blue i've ever seen flickr / instagram

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#talamone from #the #sea #sailing #tuscany #harbour and #marina #maremma #argentario #iSail #iSurf #iSurfit 📸 @iSurf please #attribute if #reposted (presso Talamone, Toscana, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByHQH9sIITV/?igshid=5ygm9z8qs2he

[notwiselybuttoowell]

...In 2006, a desperate Tuscan government dropped concrete blocks into the sea in an effort to disrupt the trawlers. Fanciulli says they didn’t work, however, as they were too far apart and the nets simply dragged between them.

He got permission from Arpa, the agency for environmental protection, to drop an additional 80 blocks at his own expense. Still, however, he wasn’t satisfied, and his thoughts turned to the shipwrecks he’d loved as a boy. “I didn’t just want concrete,” he says. “I was fascinated with beautiful antiquities underwater.”

He began to wonder: what if, instead of dropping concrete blocks into the water, he dropped art?

He asked a quarry in nearby Carrara if they could donate two marble blocks that he could use to make sculptures. “They donated 100 instead.”

Via word of mouth, contributions from tourists and online crowdfunding, Fanciulli persuaded artists including Giorgio Butini, Massimo Lippi, Beverly Pepper and Emily Young to carve sculptures from the marble. Then he took them out to sea and lowered them in.

The underwater sculptures create both a physical barrier for nets and a unique underwater museum. The sculptures are placed in a circle, 4m apart, with an obelix at the centre carved by the Italian artist Massimo Catalani. Emily Young provided four sculptures, each weighing 12 tons, she calls “guardians”; nearby lies a mermaid by the young artist Aurora Vantaggiato. Lippi has contributed 17 sculptures representing Siena’s contrade, or medieval districts.

The “museum” is open to anyone who can arrange a visit – either through guided scuba tours or by arranging their own dive.

It’s located along the Argentario section of the Tuscan coast, which has been plagued by trawling, and this year boats have been caught carrying illegal nets and fishing in protected waters.

Biologist Roberto Danovaro, who heads the Anton Dohrn research institute in Naples, likened trawling to “fishing with bombs”. “You catch the fish, but also destroy their habitat,” he says. “With no possibility of growing back because trawling is so intense.”

But the museum appears to be having some effect. Whereas 10 years ago the Posidonia was disappearing, Dr Gioia Benedettini, sea manager of Arpat, the local environmental agency, says it is now growing back.

Marine life of all kinds appears to be returning. Algae covers the statues, and lobsters have taken up residence nearby. Talamone is a turtle recovery centre – part of the Tartalife project – and more turtles have been seen, as have dolphins. “In the past it was unusual to see dolphins near the coast,” Faniculli says. “They normally stay offshore, but as industrial fishing destroyed the seabed, they moved close to the statues because, due the repopulation, there is food.”

[redmason78]

View on Talamone

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Sassetta

“City by the Sea - View of Talamone”  (1430)

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Even just the memories of this beauty makes me sick. Back to Milan, but my mind is still there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 🌊 #emilianoscatarzi #italianphotographer #baywatch #videomaking #italianvideomaker #waves #slowmotion #parconaturaledellamaremma #pennyblack #talamone #waves #easyrig #blackmagic #maremma #filming #sunset #italy #italia #🇮🇹 #photography #photographer #fotografia #uccellina #mediterraneo #toscana #toscana🇮🇹#sea #mare #nature #tirreno #mediterraneo (presso Talamone, Toscana, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtUKkBMFjwq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p5fdfo7xceai

[marcusberesford]

My dearest friend Luca took me to his camping Village on the beautiful Town of Talamone which boasts an excellent position on the sea, in the shade of the ancient Giannella pine forest facing the islands of Giannutri, Giglio and Montecristo. Comfortable and elegant, it is the most popular tourist resort on this stretch of the Tuscan coast. I am not mad about camping villages but it is a most beautiful spot and had a great Fettuccine with ragù!!! Loved it ❤️ #argentario #talamone #campinglife #livemoments #loveitaly #carpediem #marcusberesford #love #lovefriends #lovefamily #lovelife #liveaslastday #viveremomenti #maiarrendersi #viverelavita #ama #viverecomefosseultimogiorno #vivereilmareilsoleeilvento☀ (presso Talamone Camping Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdsyJpbqavL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#italy #sailing #sea #stromboli #eolie #volcano Navigazione da Itaca a Talamone

[npr]

Classic car shows are a summer tradition. But if you want the most exotic, rare, and the most expensive cars in the world, then you need to head to the Monterey Peninsula, Calif. The 67th annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance caps off a week of intensive, obsessive car love.

The Concours this year features 204 of the highest-caliber cars that have ever been made. Essentially, the international car world descends on the region. Fifteen countries and 31 states enter the elite car show held on the famed 18th hole of the Pebble Beach golf course.

That's just the end of a week of car madness, when cars take over the coastal towns of Monterey, Pebble Beach and Carmel by the Sea. The Monterey airport hosts an event of cars and airplanes. There's the Tour d'Elegance, where show cars cruise the streets, a wild exotic car show on Cannery Row (Steinbeck fans wouldn't recognize it), and, most importantly, plenty of public and private auctions. Take a look at the top 20 most expensive cars ever sold (publicly) and more than half were sold in or around car week on the Monterrey peninsula.

PHOTOS: Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Showcases Most Exotic, Rare, Expensive Cars

Photos: Bruce W. Talamon for NPR

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..Night rides across the Sea.. (presso Talamone, Toscana, Italy)