SIRENE is an independent magazine.  A small boat that sails on the horizon, a community of free spirits with the sea inside and out.

Issue 21 out September 26.

Photo: © Chris Miyashiro

Issue 21 features

‘A‘ā. Homeward Bound

Twenty-two days aboard a 26-foot catamaran, sailing from San Diego to Hawaii, almost as the ancestors once did: an ancient pathway, a voyage back to the motherland.

A Journey to Ios

We do not choose the place where we are born, and not even where we remain. Often the places choose us. One day, Christian Diener; a young G e r m a n art director, set foot on the Greek island of los and felt he was home. Through his photographs, los lives on, its soul untouched.

Calm in Chaos

Swimming at night through roaring waves, mastering the currents together with his fears, a s they show up in the darkness. Al Mennie lives life by the tide, he always enters the water feeling a deep sense of devotion. And the ocean never stops talking to him.

R. Buckminster Fuller and the Sea

For American inventor and visionary RB Fuller, there is an undeniable difference between those accustomed to the sea – constantly adapting to the ever-shifting nature of water – and those who remain within the dull certainty of the mainland.

Surfing and Climbing, Yin and Yang

For a surfer, a line is what they pursue on a wave. For a climber, a line is what they look for on a wall. Whether you’re in the water or on the rock face, there’s an essential way to experience nature in Versilia that evokes California’s Golden Age.

Captain Paul Watson

He is Captain Ahab in reverse; his life at sea has been marked by countless battles, always fighting for the whales and against those who threaten them.

The Secrets of Satawal

On a remote atoll in a remote archipelago in Micronesia, outrigger canoes have never stopped sailing beyond the coral reef. The men on board safeguard millennial knowledge; natural navigation is still a living art.

Sailing Across a Wounded Sea

It is the story of an ideal journey around the Mediterranean to meet its non-human inhabitants. In an excerpt from the book, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara narrates an encounter with two Cuvier’s beaked whales in the warm Levantine Sea.

Gente di Mare Award #3

In this third edition of the Gente di Mare Award, the winners are two surfers, two freedivers, and a traditional boatbuilder. Each of their stories speaks of the sea, but also a little bit about us.

Sirene is an international award-winning publication, tailored for those people who feel close to the sea even when they are far away from it. 

Large recycled paper pages, rough and porous as only salt water stains can be, large white spaces, pure as a sea horizon, and page-turner stories that will put you on the same wave-length with a surging community looking at the oceans as the intersection of the planet’s destinies. 

Our paper is made from algae, to make use of excess algal blooms from lagoons at risk. For every half kilo of fresh algae, a kilo of wood is saved. The entire productive process has been scrupulously thought out to attain minimal environmental impact.

Photo: © Creative Commons/Simon Ager

Surfing, freediving, stretches of ocean in the words of a solo sailor, islands, beaches to discover, customs and traditions of beach culture, stories of secret ferries, lost classic boats, whale sharks routes, reportings related to pollution and protection of marine life, create a narration in which sea lovers can relate and where they can find the characteristics of a common identity. Unlike other media dealing with sea sports and activities, Sirenes's approach is never technical but always emotional.

Sirene has been awarded a Graphite Pencil at the 2016 D&AD Awards in London and was Medal Finalist and Merit Winner at the SPD #52 in NY.

Photo © Tina Rataj

Two different versions – one in Italian and one in English – and two cradles, the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, where the attraction for water has grown in time into a culture.

Starting from Italy and California, through its webpage sirenejournal.com and carefully selected points of sale, SIRENE wants to spread and develop along the Mediterranean coast and the dry lands in the Pacific area until it reaches its readers wherever they are in the world.

Photo © Lance Anderson

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 Photo © Creative Commons/Steven Worster