Who we are
The Centro Sub Corato APS ETS was founded in May 2003 as a non- profit Cultural-Recreational Association , immediately engaged in the dissemination of the Culture of the Sea and in the practice of recreational and non-recreational diving .
From July 2019 the Centro Sub Corato APS ETS has been transformed into Social Promotion Association , adapting to the new legislation relating to the Third Sector ( DL117 / 2017 ), and is written in the Register of Social Promotion Associations ( Regional Law 18 December 2007 n.39 art.4 - Legislative Decree n.117 / 2017) with the number 795 / BA .
Equipped with three specific sectors on aspects that have always distinguished it: Underwater , Archeology and Environment , it has always participated, in a decisive way, in numerous projects and activities of a scientific and popular nature. aimed at the knowledge , protection and enhancement of the Marine Environment and Submerged Heritage .
The Corato APS ETS Sub Center it is open to anyone who loves the sea and is sensitive to issues relating to Underwater , Archeology , Protection and Enhancement of Submerged Heritage and to the Environment , offering the possibility of registration even to those who do not have a diving license .
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Our goals
The Centro Sub Corato APS ETS , with its three sectors Underwater , Archeology and Environment , aims to pursue the following objectives:
Dissemination of the culture of the sea and underwater practice, for personal growth and social promotion ;
Scientific R esearch, Study and Promotion of Cultural Heritage and Naturalistic submerged and emerged;
Dissemination of the culture of natural and archaeological heritage and cooperation with universities , schools , research institutes and national and foreign cultural centers;
Marine monitoring , enhancement and protection of the underwater and coastal environment ;
Educate to respect the marine and terrestrial environment and the landscape in all its forms;
Comprehensive diving training for scientific purposes ;
Underwater , archaeological and naturalistic hiking.
Corporate bodies
2021-2024
~ Board of Directors ~
prof. Giovanni Strippoli
President
Master Instructor, IDEA
Instructor-certifier of the ArchaeoSub Nucleus
EcoDiver MAC Trainer
Member of the MAC Nucelo
Retired English teacher. He is a diving instructor (IDEA teaching) and was the founder of the Centro Sub Corato APS ETS.
Trained in Ustica in the early 90s, he conceived the Approach Course to Underwater Archeology (2011), now in its tenth edition, through which he trains divers and issues the Artifiact Diver certificate according to the IDEA teaching method.
He collaborates with Reef Check Italia Onlus in the Coastal Environment Monitoring Project for which he is also EcoDiver MAC Trainer.
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dr. Francesco Fornelli
Counselor
Arche ologo diver
Member of the Archeosub Nucleus
EcoDiver MAC
Graduated in Cultural Heritage Sciences (L-1) and in Archeology (LM-2), specialized at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro" with an experimental thesis in Underwater Archeology (L-ANT/10) he is currently a doctoral student in Mediterranean Archaeological, Historical, Architectural and Landscape Heritage (XXXVIII cycle ) and carried out a semester of research at the "Centre Camille Jullian", in the "Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme" (MMSH), of the Université d'Aix-Marseille in Aix-en-Provence (France).
Included in the National List of Cultural Heritage Professionals:
Therefore, he is a professional qualified to carry out interventions on Cultural Heritage pursuant to art. 9 bis of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape (Legislative Decree 42/2004).
OWD patent, IDEA:
n. 469841856EN
Artifact Diver patent, IDEA:
n. 473551856EN
Michele Esposito
Secretary
EcoDiver MAC
Member of the Archeosub Nucleus
Equipment manager
Retired banking executive. He is an expert diver, with numerous specialty certificates.
Member of the MAC Nucleus, in which he collaborates in the Visual Census for underwater environmental monitoring, and of the ArcheoSub Nucleus, in which he deals with photo-video documentation.
Advanced OWD patent, IDEA:
n. 445871856
Deep Diver certification, IDEA:
n. 464211856
Artifact Diver patent, IDEA:
n. 457371856
dr. Michele De Gioia
Advisor
Environmental Biologist
Diving Instructor, ANIS
EcoDiver MAC Trainer
Head of the MAC Unit
Member of the Archeosub Nucleus
Graduated in Environmental Biology (LM-6) at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", underwater instructor (ANIS teaching), he is a technical-scientific collaborator of ARPA Puglia .
Artifact Diver certification, IDEA:
n. 420971856
dr. Gianluca Lippolis
Probiviro
Member of the Archeosub Nucleus
Graduated in Sciences of Cultural Heritage (L-1),
is a master's degree in Archeology (LM-2) at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
OWD patent, IDEA:
n. 469861856EN
Artifact Diver patent, IDEA:
n. 473541856EN
Dr. Annalisa Natale
Counselor
Underwater archaeologist
Member of the Archeosub Nucleus
Tourist guide
Graduated in Sciences of Cultural Heritage (L-1) and in Archeology (LM-2) at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".
Included in the List of Authorized Tourist Guides of the Puglia Region:
n. 03018
(Prov. Bari DD n.7599 of 11/10/2013; DD n. 25 of 07/02/2019).
Included in the National List of Cultural Heritage Professionals:
Therefore, he is a professional qualified to carry out interventions on Cultural Heritage pursuant to art. 9 bis of the Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape (Legislative Decree 42/2004).
OWD patent, IDEA:
n. 416261090
Advanced OWD patent, IDEA:
n. 445871856
Artifact Diver patent, IDEA:
n. 420961856
dott. Rosito Daniele
Advisor
Environmental biologist
Graduated in Environmental Biology (LM-6), at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", with a thesis regarding the health status of the red gorgonian in the Isole Tremiti MPA. He has participated in several sampling campaigns at sea, also dealing with the taxonomic identification of molluscs, crustaceans and echinoderms.
OWD Patent, IDEA:
n. 489141856
~ College of Arbitrators ~
Dr. Federica Calabrese
Counselor
Naturalistic guide
Photography teacher
He has a degree in Economics and Commerce, I worked as an accountant for some years.
A precious collaborator for the Alta Murgia National Park Authority since 2004, the year of its establishment, where he works as an Environmental Hiking Guide. It is part of the AIGAE (Italian Association of Environmental Hiking Guides) and of the AFNI (Italian Naturalist Photographers Association). Passionate about ornithology, he is part of the LIPU and collaborated with the Park Authority in the preparation of the notebook on diurnal birds of prey. A member of the Archeoclub of Italy, he also participated in numerous excavations carried out in Murgia in the 1980s. He is also a passionate nature photographer, he collaborates in the realization of numerous photographic exhibitions and, in my capacity as guide and photographer, he has collaborated in the realization of numerous documentaries on nature broadcast by RAI.
dr. Danilo Minafra
Advisor
Member of the Archeosub Nucleus
Graduated in Classics (L-10) and in Archeology (LM-2), he specializes at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".
OWD Patent, IDEA:
n. 440521856
Artifact Diver certification, IDEA:
n. 442781856
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