Photo: © Folco Quilici /Archivi Alinari

Issue 21 features

Twenty

Sirene 2015-2025. Twenty blue quotes.

Blue Affinity

Salt shapes, drains, and strips. It purifies. At sea, friendships take on a permanent imprint, destined never to change.

Swimming Heals

A magic place, a ritual at dawn, a documentary. At Bondi’s ocean pool in Sydney, you dive in regardless of the weather or the season, and friendships are made forever. Swimming saves our lives.

Aegean Sea: Islands and Destinies

A Greek photographer spent months sailing the entire Aegean Sea, collecting hundreds of images and stories in his nets. From island to island, like Ulysses at each port of call, he looked, listened, and asked questions.

An Island, a Community, a Boat.

Azorean whaleboats. A healthy story of change and adaptation.

No Paradise for Surfers

From Mahé to Farquhar Atoll, from Silhouette to Aldabra, the surf genesis in the Seychelles.

James Sturz

Journalist, author, Explorers Club fellow, he is first and foremost a man of the sea.

Folco Quilici: the Islands of the Day Before

Once upon a time, there was a magnificent and generous ocean whose secrets were known and protected by grateful people.

Messages in a Bottle

Thoughts, emotions, and wishes for the next ten years. From friends of Sirene, friends of the sea.

Gente di Mare Award #3

Master, Storyteller, Defender: three categories to tell the story of our relationship with the sea as we chase the ever-changing waves and currents. Third edition.