Scuba diving at the scoglio della Nave (Capo Enfola)

The scoglio della Nave is a large sea stack that rises up from the sea just off the coast of Enfola.

Here you can start your scuba diving by swimming down and you will see that the stack goes down to a depth of 20 m below the surface; at this point you will see a plateau of sand that, if you swim across, you will come to a steep wall of rocks that goes 40 m below the surface.

The coralligenous wall has many cracks so you will see spirogrya of every type and size growing out of them. Head westwards as you swim along the wall and you will get to a very large open crack, the biggest so far, and now you can start swimming back up towards the surface.

As you swim along take a look at all the small cracks and you will see lobsters as well as many other small fish and shellfish, snappers, sea breams, noble pen shells, groupers and eels.

Photographs kindly lent by Riccardo Buralli - Diving in Elba