Who we are

I am Alessandro Picariello, owner and instructor of the Sub Mania diving center, a modern and efficient diving center that shows what the passion for the scuba diving sport and the fashion for the sea are able to create in time. Today Sub Mania is the expression of a lot of work done time ago and my father’s strong attraction for the sea. He has created much more than a simple maritime service.

My father Pasquale, since his childhood, didn’t resist the attraction for the sea. He began doing scuba diving and exploring the foundings of the Cilentan Coast in a time when the scuba diving was still in the beginning and was considered a difficult and dangerous sport for a few people only. It was the Duilio Marcante Doctrine’s time, an important aera for the Italian scuba diving that created a scuba diving category of an “old school”, but certainly not indifferent to farsighted visions and progressive ideas. My father, with his forty years scuba diving experience, is today one of few scuba divers who knows in any detail numerous diving places and several wreck positions in the area between Punta Licosa and the Paestum’s coastline. He is the “captain” for everyone and for over twenty years his great experience made him a point of reference for a lot of scuba diving groups and the various diving schools that frequent the foundings of the Cilentan coastline. He conveyed the passion for the sea to me too, and it was with him I got my first scuba diving experience at the age of eight years. For my professional training I am working together with the F.I.P.S.A.S. instructor Annino Festa. Since more than twenty years we are bound by a friendly relation and trustful, permanent cooperation. Since the year 2005 it’s he to be in charge of the scuba diving courses of the sporting association “Sub Mania Circolo Sommozatori Cilento”; he was always marked by a great zeal and professionalism in time.

Thanks to the synergy of an affiliated group Sub Mania presents with it’s carefull connotation and in it’s marked capacity as scuba diving school, diving center and point of sale of scuba diving equipments with the intention to offer at everyone a painstaking service above all aimed at saddisfying the varied scuba diving demands of the third millennium. In the activities of “Sub Mania Circolo Sommozatori Cilento” has become integral part so the technical formation for the scuba divers who use ipo- or iper-oxygen mixtures, besides the basic recreative scuba diving formation to take out the varied degree licences(certificates) and the specialisations belonging to. Under the protection of the T.S.A.(Trimix scuba association), since the year 2008 Sub Mania has become an instructor formation center.