Guido Gay's new book “The depths recount - Roman Wrecks and more” by Luglio Editore has just been released. The book describes the author's expeditions and discoveries during his navigations on board the catamaran Daedalus, a sailing yacht but also a small oceanographic ship of unique and unpara[...]
During our wanderings we discovered a deposit of amphorae at a depth of 250 meters, relatively shallow for us, about 9 miles northeast of Cap Corse. The site was heavily damaged by trawling nets not in recent times and the entire first layer of amphorae was reduced to shards, demonstrating how uncon[...]
During a voyage from Puglia to Albania to visit the ports of that country, we traveled the route that on June 8, 1916 was undertaken towards Italy by the steamship Principe UMBERTO loaded with infantrymen of the 55th Regiment of the Royal Italian Army for a total of over 2600 men. The ship sailed in[...]
Azionemare has always been attentive to the issue of sustainability, the protection of marine ecosystems and the damage caused by pollution. The Daedalus catamaran has been designed to respect the environment as much as possible.It uses the thrust of the wind as its main driving force, it is equippe[...]
In these rainy days of November, using only our on-board means, we are replacing the engines of the Daedalus.The mechanical propulsion of our research "vessel", after thirty years of service with almost ten thousand hours of flawless operation, was starting to gasp, so it was decided to install new [...]
After 10 years of honorable service aboard the Daedalus catamaran, where it has accumulated hundreds of hours in diving at depths between about 300 and 1200m, the ROV PlutoPalla has returned to the technical laboratories of the Idrobotica for extraordinary maintenance and updating which have the aim[...]
The Port Authority of Porto Torres in Sardinia has issued an ordinance (No. 50/2020) with which it establishes trawling bans on 6 sites of ancient Roman wrecks discovered by the DAEDALUS catamaran at great depth. The forbidden areas will be monitored by the operations center through satellite survey[...]
On 16 August 2020 the Multipluto abyssal ROV dived on the Dae37 wreck in order to film the load of marble transported by a Roman ship, which sank a few miles northwest of the island of Gorgona, at a depth of 280 m.The archaeological mission was born from a collaboration between Guido Gay, of the Azi[...]
The MULTIPLUTO on board of the catamaran DAEDALUS has recovered 10 finds of 2000 years ago, from a Roman shipwreck located 506 meters deep off the island of Tinos.The site, substantially intact, shows a deposit that includes about 2000 amphorae, of which 878 visible on the surface, of different type[...]
The Port Authority of La Spezia has issued an ordinance (Ordinance no. 68/2020 of 13 May 2020) for the safeguarding of two deep archaeological sites: the Daedalus 12, discovered in 2012 and the Daedalus 21 discovered in 2014.These are of two ancient Roman wrecks of great interest to the Archaeologic[...]
Protection of environment and of underwater cultural heritage is one of the aims of Azionemare Foundation. The ancient Roman archaeological sites that we have discovered on the deep seabed are constantly subject to damage caused by trawling.We have therefore taken steps to raise awareness among the [...]
The three-dimensional study of the Dae 37 wreck from the Imperial Roman era was completed. The wreck consists of a load of marble coming from the port of Luni and presumably heading to Rome.The load is composed of a large block roughly 8 meters long, 3.5 meters wide and more than 2 meters high, weig[...]
Ancient ROMAN WRECK found by deep rov MULTIPLUTO.Thousand of amphorae Dressel 1A found at 570 metres depth west of island Gorgona.[...]
The ROV MULTIPLUTO operated fron Catamaran DAEDALUS has recovered amphorae of 2000 years ago from a wreck lying 460 metres deep north of Capraia island.The relics are unbroken type Laetana 1 and Dressel 1C amphorae from Spain transporting wine to Rome.Archaeologists from Soprintendenza Pisa-Livorno [...]
The deep rov MULTIPLUTO has discovered the remains of a roman ship sunk north of Capraia island 2000 years ago, during a navigation presumably to transport a load of wine from Spain to Rome.This is the roman wreck number 38 found by the catamaran DAEDALUS, in an area around Cape Corse and islands Go[...]
Another success is projecting the Italian Navy surveying and monitoring capabilities to the depth of the abyss. The wreck of the cruiser Giovanni dalle BANDE NERE, torpedoed and sunk by the british submarine HMS URGE on april 1st, 1942, lying split in several sections between 1460 and 1730 metr[...]
During an exercise of the Minehunters GAETA and RIMINI, the Italian Navy has located and identified the wreck of WW1 Guglielmotti that was rammed and sunk to 400 meters depth 102 years ago attacked by mistake by HMS Cyclamen on March 10th, 1917. This has been a successful search carried out by [...]
Two deep bathyal dives conducted at 1850 m have successfully concluded the project SIR-BIOMOUNT, directed by Marzia Bo, a researcher in marine zoology of the University of Genova.In the middle of the Ligurian Sea, rising from a muddy bottom at 2300 m, emerges a rocky spur known as Spinola.Rocky e[...]
Discovered within surveys of the Project Biomount, headed by the researcher Marzia Bo from the University of Genova and targeting the biological investigation of the tops of underwater mountains, or seamounts.The peaks of Cialdi and Etruschi seamounts (Central Tyrrhenian Sea) have been explored for [...]
The DAEDALUS research catamaran is setting sail for her summer campaign. The scheduled activity includes a first period of sea mounts investigation for biological studies. The top of the following sea mounts will be surveyed: mount BARONIE in Sardinia, mounts CIALDI and ETRUSCHI south of Giglio isl[...]
13 March 2018.An unexpected success with more than 200 enthusiastic students who attended the conference about Guido Gay’s life as sea explorer, inventor and engineer. They learnt how Guido built his first ROV, developed his enterprise since the end of ‘70, started deep sea explorations finding [...]
During navigation on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Sea, five Roman ANCIENT WRECKS have been discovered at a great depth, including an important wreck that has never been ruined by bottom trawls.[...]
The new PLUTO GABBIA successfully tested to -1200 m deep during the research activities of the ROMA BATTLESHIP and the GIOBERTI wreck at a depth of -600 m .[...]
August 8, 2016 - Guido Gay and Gabriella Covacci were honored to receive the visit of Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy aboard the DAEDALUS catamaran.Were illustrated to the Prince the resources and instruments that have allowed the discovery of the ROMA BATTLESHIP. The Prince expressed interest and[...]
Guido Gay, who has recently discovered the wrecks of the submarine HSM SARACEN and that of the steamship FRANCESCO CRISPI, during the specialized trade show Oceanology International 2016 shows us his new MULTIPLUTO (vehicle for underwater researches up to -4000 m). Next to him Terry Hodgkinson,[...]
The Italian Navy has conducted a "dual use" mission (with the use of a minesweepers for civilian purposes) on the wreck of GIOBERTI DESTROYER, bringing on board of the GAETA ship the PLUTO underwater robots piloted by Guido Gay. [...]
