“We’re born alone and die alone, in this world, but along the great way called life we meet people, friends, seem candles that risk dark and guide us where we want. During my visit in Europe, one of the soon accepted invitation, was that one of Delphis, an organization to safeguard dolphins and whales present in the waters of the splendid land of Ischia, just an hour distance from the port of Naples”.

Sergio Bambarén, Australian writer of Peruvian origin, expert surfer, very sensible in favor of the ecologist cause, dedicates an entire chapter to Ischia, in his work Sperling & Kupfer, a travel in Umbria and along the Amalfi coast, as San Francesco d’ Assisi, who renounced everything to follow the hearth way. His works has inside the presence of the sea, from infinite horizons to blue skies where you lose in. The first romance ‘The Dolphin’, inspired to the meeting with a solitary dolphin during a travel in Portugal, in Australia more than 60 thousand copies sold and translated into more than 25 languages.

Arrived in the green island, thanks to Katia Massaro, honorary president of Oceanomare-Delphis Onlus, Bambarén met the researchers Barbara Mussi and Angelo Miragliuolo captain on board of Jean Gab, the laboratory sailing ship by Studiomare, that describes how “the dolphins and sperm whale guardians of the island of Ischia waters, two nice persons who have dedicated own life to the safeguard of these extraordinary marine creatures, the real owners of the island sea”.
There’s no need for flying toward far lands and sailing unknown seas to see the Stenella striata, the Grampus, the common Dolphin, the bottlenose dolphin, the pilot whale, the sperm whale and the common rorqual. The Ischia’s waters are an important habitat for porpoises of the Mediterranean Sea, so you don’t amaze you if they appear suddenly in front of you on the sea.
The Cuma Canyon, in fact, is a deep and wide valley under the sea, the Campi Flegrei area 800m in depth between the island of Ischia and Ventotene, it’s a site for different cetacean species.
The work of research and monitoring of this marine environment has managed by Oceanomare-Delphis Onlus, two realities in a unique organization the last year, creating besides Ischia, also seats in Rimini and Rome. Researchers and followers, in 10 years have started a commendable work, avoiding the natural ecosystem collapse. So Daniela Silvia Pace, on April 26th and 27th represented Italy as speaker of  Museo Oceanografico of Monaco, founded by Prince Alberto I, for 2 days of laboratory and meeting about ‘Knowledge and preservation of underwater Mediterranean Canyon’. 
A round table that sees the participation of scientist, maritime law experts, international organizations representatives, Marine Preservation administrators, all over the world, from Tunisia, France, Canada, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Morocco. 
That one of Oceanomare-Delphis Onlus is a reality constantly growing thoughout the day, with more than of 200 partners, numerous scientific publications, appearances in Tv, scientific conferences and an area for cetaceans in 2006 a  Museo di Villa Arbusto in Lacco Ameno, which hosts the complete skeleton of a young common dolphin (Delphinus delphinis) stranded to Ischia in November 2003.
On May 12th , at 16.30, this area will host the photographic exhibition ‘Incontro con I giganti del mare’ by Giuseppe Farace, but the blue events continue on the same day, always in Lacco Ameno, in tha charming hydro-thermal park Negombo, where the Edition 9 of Festa del Delfino takes place.
Eight hundred guys of primary and secondary schools take part to the photographic competition ‘La biodiveristà marina e costiera!’, an organization to divulge the marine life to the young.
A committee, formed by experts, institutional representatives, journalists, will judge and select the works presented by 400students and will reward the originality, richness and expressivity of image. Every photo will be shown to the public for the entire manifestation, with music pauses of the Scuola S. Caterina da Siena of Forio students, conducted by Anna Buonocore and the presentation by Bruno Mancini ‘Ischia Mare e Poesia’ and a grand final. Ice-cream for everyone!

We’ll return to sail this amazing sea!

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