Asd Zingaro Diving Center

Capua was a small cargo ship, with a tonnage of 400 tons, a length of 45 meters. and a width of less than 8 meters.The ship was built at the beginning of the past century by the shipyard Wood Skinner & Co. of Newcastle in the UK, and for cases of life during the Second World War was used against England, not as a combat unit but as a support. It sank during a mission, on April 27th 1943,while carrying arms for the Italian troops in Africa from Trapani to Tripoli.Due to a fire on board there was a violent explosion. All crew, including Commander, survived but the ship sank about ten hours later, on a sandy bottom at about 38 metersdepth, in front of the bay "Mazzo di Sciacca" currently within the reserve-oriented Zingaro. These are the facts, regards the origin of fire there is no clear evidence, some rumors want the fire caused by the crew tired from the long conflict, according to other evidence it seems that the fire was caused anyway by the crew but due to the sighting of a British submarine. What happened, as in many cases, we will never know, but this only adds a touch of mystery to the charm of the dive on the wreck of Capua.

Located under the entrance tunnel to the Zingaro Nature Reserve on the Scopello side, this dive is suitable for all types of certifications, depending on the depth.

The Catarratta's Shoal is another jewel in Tonnara's bay, a little more challenging than the Secca di Cala Rossa, it begin at about 20 mt, like Cala Rossa is so big to offer more dive paths, each with with its peculiarities: The stacks of sea fans, the wall of the lobsters, The Ancorone. The whole shoal is spread between 20 and 40 meters, quite easy to encounter large pelagic fish, such as snapper and amberjack, and groupers, moray eels and congers. On this shoal there are also a colonies of Gerardia Savaglia (false black coral) and lots of Red fan corals.

Kent is a cargo ship sank in July of '78 after a fire on board forced the crew to leave the ship . The cargo is on the sea bed at about 40mt since over 30 years and during this period was heavily colonized by many forms of marine life. The dive is for advanced divers with deep-diving experience, the vessel is in navigation trim but given the size and depth can not be visited with a single dive.

In the Tonnara's Gulf a bit far away from the coast from a bottom of about 40/50mt this shoal rise up with its top at about 10 mt.depht. The shoal is huge and there are several paths you can follow for diving and all of them allow to encounter high concentration of life. Eels, congers, lobsters, crabs and shrimp in every hole. Groupers and snappers use to swim where the stream split on the shoal and suddely may appear jack fishes hunting some unlucky prey ( watch the video ). The Secca di Cala Rossa is one of the most beautiful and enjoyable dives in the area, marked by the ancient anchors of the old Tuna factory, in the deeper end are a couple of small caves where the shrimps are concentrated in large numbers.

The entire Tuna Factory's bay has several underwater cliff, walls that a few meters from the shore goes down to a depth of about 40 meters . Next to the Tuna factory there is one of these walls . In this case after having anchored on a plateau at about 9 meters deep the seabed slopes gently with areas of rock and sea grass , here we often encounter squid , octopus and moray eels. The entrance to the cavern is at the base of a wall full of life and and is indicated by a rock completely encrusted with orange sponges . Inside the cavern there is a large amount of red shrimps and often large redfish and mustelle expect on the bottom for eating shrimps that comes too close. After the cave diving continues up the wall to a step in about 30 mt depth the step ends few meters leading to another wall that allows us to go back from about -27 mt to -18 mt . on the same plateau where the boat is anchored .