This is in French but subtitles in English work.

Some beautiful shots and i discovered that there are kelp forests in the Mediterranean?!!

2 hours ago, waterpixel said:

This is in French but subtitles in English work.

Some beautiful shots and i discovered that there are kelp forests in the Mediterranean?!!

They are amazing. It's the so called Golden Kelp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminaria_ochroleuca) and it's present on both shores of the strait but it's deep. It starts form 65m/213ft. The colony on the Sicily shore is the best (the ones filmed in this doc).

Roberto Rinaldi filmed the Laminaria with his Canon C500 MKII.

P.S.

A tragic note. The researcher speaking in the video is Lorenzo Bramanti. One of the top experts on mesophotic systems in the Mediterranean and a researcher at the French CNRS. Unfortunately, Lorenzo died suddenly at the age of 52 in his home in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, at the end of June 2026.

https://reporterre.net/Lorenzo-Bramanti-chercheur-et-defenseur-des-forets-animales-marines-est-mort

Really beautiful documentary, and a fascinating environment that I’d only ever heard about before.
There are even some CFWA shots, like the gastropod at 12:40.
Thanks for sharing!