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Project Interreg III "Oceanografia Biologica dell'Adriatico settentrionale" (2003-2006)

in collaboration with CNR Institute of Marine Sciences

Also see: Northern Adriatic dolphins

Marina Costa and Nino Pierantonio hard at work during one of the northern Adriatic
surveys organised seasonally in the context of the Interreg project conducted in
collaboration with the CNR Institute of Marine Sciences (Venice, Italy)

The ship used for the surveys

The crew

The visual survey to assess cetacean abundance requires observations
performed by two dedicated observers from dawn to dusk

Marina and Nino, the Tethys observers

Life on board the R/V Dallaporta

Also see: Northern Adriatic dolphins