Punta San Francesco
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About this site
Punta San Francesco is a dive site located near Zone 1 of the Marine Park of Giannutri Island, in the Tuscan Archipelago. The coloured wall descends from 30 metres to beyond 90 metres, making it suitable for both recreational and technical diving, with a maximum recorded depth of 23.8 m for recreational dives and a sandy bottom.
The wall terrain offers varied topography across its depth range. The site is rated intermediate to advanced, requiring at least an Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
Marine life at Punta San Francesco includes barracuda, groupers, scorpionfish, lobsters, electric rays, octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, all associated with the reef wall and its surroundings.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
LobsterLobsterReported here · unconfirmed
SquidSquidConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
BarracudaBarracudaReported here · unconfirmed
GrouperGrouperConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
ScorpionfishScorpionfishReported here · unconfirmed
OctopusOctopusConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Ornate WrasseThalassoma pavoObserved near here · iNaturalist
Mediterranean MorayMuraena helenaObserved near here · iNaturalist
Mediterranean DamselfishChromis chromisObserved near here · iNaturalist
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