Adriatic underwater [2/2]

Lacking the corals and most of colorful fish, the brightest spots underwater were starfish and some of the algae.

That is the brightest starfish I've seen, a pink one.

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When free diving in tropical waters, I usually go down to 10 meters, stay there for about 10 seconds looking around and making pictures, and then slowly ascend to the water surface. Diving deeper is tempting but could be dangerous without a trained buddy. In Adriatic I went down to only about 6 meters and felt uncomfortable going deeper. Mainly it was because of a high water temperature gradient and partially because of light effects, it becomes dull