Who we are

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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.

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. 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. Michele De Gioia

Counselor

Environmental Biologist

Underwater Instructor, ANIS

EcoDiver MAC Trainer

Head of the MAC Nucelo

Member of the Archeosub Nucleus

Graduated in Environmental Biology (LM-6) at the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", diving instructor (teaching ANIS), is a technical-scientific collaborator of ARPA Puglia .

Artifact Diver patent, IDEA:

n. 420971856

dr. Francesco Fornelli

Counselor

Arche ologo diver

Member of the Archeosub Nucleus

EcoDiver MAC

Graduated in Sciences of Cultural Heritage (L-1) and in Archeology (LM-2), he is a postgraduate

at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".

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

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

~ College of Arbitrators ~

dr. Danilo Minafra

Probiviro

Member of the Archeosub Nucleus

Graduated in Classics (L-10) and in Archeology (LM-2), he is a postgraduate at the School of Specialization in Archaeological Heritage of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro".

OWD patent, IDEA:

n. 440521856

Artifact Diver patent, IDEA:

n. 442781856