In the port of Catania, the removal of sunken and semi-sunken wrecks present in the an activity that has already led to the recovery of 14 of the 48 boats abandoned for some time, mostly boats fiberglass and wood fishing boats and some patrol boats, sailboats, fishing boat and pleasure boat.

The president of the Port System Authority of the Sea of Eastern Sicily, Francesco Di Sarcina, specified that This activity was preceded "by a series of preliminary investigations, using electroacoustic instrumentation to the mapping of the seabed. It continues like this - he underlined - the process of environmental and functional redevelopment of the airport Etna and the work plan will also be ready soon concerning the port of Augusta, which has about ten wrecks". In fact, the procedures for verification by the MASE (Ministry of the Environment and Safety) Energy Security) for the approval of environmental monitoring of the Augustan roadstead: by the end of the month a meeting between the Ministry, designers and Port Authorities for the summary presentation by the of the Authority with the proposal of the procedures to be followed to the removal of the ten boats that insist on those seabeds.