Paolo Scalfo was born August 20, 1955 in Massa, from a family of enthusiasts for the sea and dragged from elder brothers dedicated to scuba diving, exercising ache for several years at a competitive level, competing in different leagues for Italian society.

Paul have another great love of photography, has always exercised as social documentation.

Preserves with jealousy the legendary darkroom for developing black and white.

In 1982 the inventor and founder of the Sub Marina di Massa, who later became South Tyrrhenian Sea Dive Center (CSAT) of which he took the chair and still maintains today, with great passion and dedication.

For several years is responsible for the account Tuscan dell'ANPAS namely the National Association of Public Assistance of the core Divers Regional Civil Protection.

The approach with underwater photography happens naturally, first as director of the selective tender organized by the CSAT and then as a real athlete in healthy internal competition "colliding" with the already established photographers in the middle.

Join years of racing at the circuit FIPSAS obtaining good results in both selective and in the Italian championships.

Won the 2001 championship Toscano individual.

In 2009 also began to engage in competitions of Safari underwater photography and the Italian Championships held in Ustica in the same year, won a sensational third place in the standings company teamed with Mark bollettinaro.

E 'responsibilities included the organization of the Italian Championship of Underwater Photography in 2007 and 2009 in Capraia Islands Tremiti, both assigned to the Center Sub precisely Alto Tirreno.

In 2009, in the prestigious setting of Palazzo Vecchio in Salone de 'Cinquecento, he is recognized by CONI toscano the title of best director of FIPSAS Tuscany.

"I am absolutely convinced dell'incontestabile fact that the sea has an enormous and wonderful ability to make individuals DISABILITIES DISABILITIES IN THE SAME. Farsi then help in this difficult journey, by a poet as extraordinary as Fabrizio De Andrè, is the natural union of one who has always been on the side of the weak and unlucky "along a" creuza de mä "which means the Genoese sea mule, you have this enormous sense of freedom, sincerity and truth. E l 'immersion repeats, especially those with limited mobility, freedom in its purest imaginable for us whatsoever. "

Paul Scalfi

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