Diving Center Saracen Favignana

South of the elongated Palumbo rock that breaks the surface, between 15 and 18 m lies the wreck of the Carmelo Lo Porto cargo, which sank here on June, 23, 1971 while transporting salt. The stern is intact and quite attractive, while other pieces are scattered around. No real penetration possible.

Starting from inside the nice bay, one follows the N coast keeping the rocks on the right-side. The rocks form a small wall first, then become more chaotic. A small, quite narrow in height cavern opens up just outside the bay.

Suitable for every level, from Beginer to expert. Depending on the current. It could be the easiest dive or very committing. There is somthing for everyones taste.

Punta Negra is a small cape overlooking the Gulf of Macari behind St. Vito. The navigation to reach to the dive site runs along the entire Capo.Boat is moored a few meters from the coast on a rocky bottom of about 5m. Divers move away towards the open sea through a shallow canyon where it is easy to find octopus's dens, after the canyon is the edge the lead to two steps first to 12mt. and after about 25m., Divers will keep the wall on the left while the depth increases, for divers with advanced license maximum planned depth is 40 meters. But Punta Negra is a dive very beautiful even without reaching the limits of recreational diving. The walls of Punta Negra ( are more than one) are very spectacular and so beautifull that needs more then one dive to be visited, walls are perpendicular and the sea bed is beyond the limits of recreational diving. In the deepest part of the dive you can also see beautiful colonies of red fancorall.

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.

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.