This unbelievable story begins with an encounter. While sailing around the Ionian Islands in Greece in July 2014, the Octopus Foundation crew met with Cédric Georges, the French owner of the Fiskardo-Divers center. Along the conversation, he mentioned the British plane wreck that was shot down by German artillery during the second world war. When…
The ancient Greek city of Orikos, renamed Oricum by the Romans, is the home of a unique archaeological site that had never been excavated before 2005. The crew of the Octopus Foundation first documented the site in 2012 and followed archaeologists of the Geneva University and the Archaeology Institute of Albania. Two years later, the…
Founded in 1996 by the Franco-Italian biologist Daniela Freggi, the “Lampedusa Turtle Rescue” is a veterinary clinic dedicated to injured marine turtles of the Mediterranean. From a simple bandage to a complex surgical intervention, the “Lampedusa Turtle Rescue” shelters and treats around 200 marine turtles every year.