A snorkeler floating face down in clear shallow water On the water

Boat dives off Santa Marinella

Santa Marinella

You go out on an inflatable, which gets you over the site fast and puts you back on board without a ladder to climb. The walls off Santa Marinella are crusted with coral, with groupers and moray eels in the cracks.

How the day goes

  1. Load the rib at Porto Odescalchi and run out to the site.
  2. Roll in and follow the wall down, torch on for whatever is hiding in it.
  3. Back aboard, gear off, and in to the marina.

You want to be at home underwater: the deeper sites here suit divers with the experience to match, and the gentle one is where you start.

Where it is

Santa Marinella at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Santa Marinella, and where it is from Rome Santa Marinella drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 60 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 60 min Rome Santa Marinella

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Meeting point at Porto Odescalchi, Santa Marinella (RM), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 1 hdrive from the middle of Rome
  • 62 kmeach way

  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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