Advice on Diving inItaly

...ges and abilities. Travellers heading to Italy may not immediately associate the country with scuba diving – food architecture and mopeds more commonly reach the top of the list – but in truth, Italy has a rich history of legend and fact that surrounds its underwater adventures. Alexander the Great was said to use one of the first diving bells to complement his military strategies, and evidence of free diving has been discovered from as far back as 3200BC. In the modern era, Italian divers worked tirelessly during WWII, and the country’s most famous sub-aquatic swimmer of all, Enzo Maiorca, h...