{"id":9594,"date":"2021-11-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.underwatertales.net\/2021\/11\/26\/la-bettolina-di-sestri-3a-parte\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T10:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T09:31:37","slug":"la-bettolina-di-sestri-3rd-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwatertales.net\/en\/2021\/11\/26\/la-bettolina-di-sestri-3rd-part\/","title":{"rendered":"La Bettolina di Sestri (3rd part)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tales of diving on the Bettolina di Sestri. From bow to stern, through the large spoked wheel. The kitchens, the place where time has stopped, the lodgings and the rudder, which still works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Summary of previous episodes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fleet on the bottom<\/strong>\u201d is the book that Claudio Grazioli<\/strong> wrote to help us learn about the wrecks of Sestri Levante<\/strong> and their history. Thanks to him we retraced the history of the Barge J\u00f6rn<\/strong> and the fictionalized story of her terrible sinking.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The dive on the Sestri barge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That phone call from Jin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least a month ago, on a beautiful early autumn afternoon, I received a phone call. On the other side of the receiver was Gianluca Recita<\/strong>, Jin for his underwater friends. He is part of a large diving club and together with his members he wanted to organize two evenings live on Facebook to let their associates know two of the wrecks that lie in the bay of Sestri Levante: the Barge J\u00f6rn and the Cargo Armato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His idea was born after reading Claudio’s book and, in the phone call, he asked me if it was possible to involve him in the two evenings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously Claudio loves sharing his discoveries and his ideas with other enthusiasts and therefore accepted with great pleasure the invitation for these two evenings and also for the following day dedicated to diving on these two wrecks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Appointment for November 27th<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organization therefore provided for a day to be dedicated to diving on the Cargo Armed and on the Sestri Barge<\/strong>. Claudio Grazioli would have been the animator and the guide while the Massub Diving Portofino in Lavagna<\/a> was the support diving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no one can do anything about it against Jupiter Pluvius. This is usually the rainy season and the week preceding the appointment was truly disastrous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rain, wind and storm surges advised the diving center to postpone the event, with all due respect to thirty divers who were already polishing the regulators and bi-cylinders for the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From the scrapbook<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then I draw from the album of memories and the inevitable story that Claudio has included in his book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember a couple of dives on the Bettolina, in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first with Abyss Diving<\/strong>, many years ago now. It was September, usually a good month to do this dive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On board the Ramagi\u00f2 we left Rapallo on a beautiful sunny midweek day. Leading the troop was Giorgio with a small group of students from a technical course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was such visibility that as soon as I put my nose in the water you would frame the wreck resting on the sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second one was a few years later, I think during the course to learn how to use the rEvo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was on board the Style Diving<\/a> boat and Yme and Matteo<\/strong> were certainly with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We were less fortunate, in the sense that you began to see the wreck I went down about ten meters. And it was completely covered in a cloak of mucilage. Matteo sent me some frames of a beautiful video he made. Looking at it, the Barge looks like an abandoned vessel…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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