It was during one of his dives when Vasilis Mentogiannis discovered a rare colony of seahorses in a remote gulf near the Chalkidiki point in Greece.
Talking to Reuters, he describes the experience, being submerged down to about eight or nine meters deep when he saw them: “I saw a great many and I said to myself ‘hey, what’s going on here?’ I thought this was really remarkable.”
Seahorses are considered extremely rare and are not encountered often in Greek waters, so the diver wanted to do whatever he could in order to protect this colony and help it thrive.
Back in 2010, they were threatened when a flood in the nearby village of Stratoni almost destroyed them, after wreckage was pushed into the waters, but it was thanks to Mentogiannis’ intervention that the colony managed to overcome this.
Having seen the seahorses raise their numbers, he hopes they can avoid any further disasters which would endanger their colony in the future, which is the reason why he chose to do a campaign: “We are talking about a very small region, I think just keeping the fishing boats away is something we can accomplish”.
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