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One thousand meters (3,281 feet) under the Mediterranean Sea, a crab tangled in plastic is fighting to crawl across the rocky sea bottom. At 240 meters (787 feet) down, an entire population of bamboo coral is being choked by fishing gear.
These are some of the sights Italian marine