Scoglio del Vervece

It is a very small islet, half a mile off Massalubrense harbor, just a rock, but it is the top of a submarine mountain. Surmounted by a beacon, its walls drops off to an over 50 m depth, and they are very interesting at every depth. The distance from the shore and the main currents from the Gulf of Naples are the conditions for an extraordinary richness of marine life, including rare and endangered species, and even something not explained by scientists, yet, like a bleaching tips red gorgonia. 12 m deep, there’s a bronze statue of the Madonna, posed there by some devote divers in the ‘70s, subject of a popular religious feast. At Vervece there is even a wreck, an old 30 m cargo ship. It is a very nice dive, but it is not possible to start it from the rock, due to the long distance: the only way is to descend into the blue, along a rope, to 40 m, and therefore this dive is reserved to experienced divers.