Fabio Ruberti is a Member International with the Explorers Club since 2008

My field has always been the exploration of the underwater world, I learned scuba diving very young, in 1970 at 15 years old. Then I traveled all the Mediterranean by boat and diving everywhere, at the beginning my interest was mainly geographical and environmental, mapping the underwater bottom and taking pictures.

Then I made historical and archeological studies becoming a Ph.D. in History and Archaeology at the University of Pisa (Italy). I addressed that studies to the Mediterranean civilizations becoming interested and skilful in the search, exploration and study of historical shipwreck. I had a stop during my five year service in the Italian army as an parachutist officer. Coming back in the civilian life I invested my time and money in the development of the diving tourism in remote areas, I was between the early European divers to visit and explore the Red Sea in Sinai and Egypt in 1977, few years later the Yom Kippur War, where I worked as a diving guide and instructor. Then I was again between the first European divers to visit and explore the depths of the Maldives Islands in the Indian ocean in the early eighties, where between 1991 and 1996 I owed a big diving center. I explored in the same years the cost of east Africa, mainly Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Madagascar and many smaller Islands.

Coming back in Europe I established two companies related with diving: one of diving equipment and the other related with teaching all fields of diving. Few years later established also a non-profit organization dedicated to expeditions to explore and study historical and archaeological shipwrecks, cooperating with Italian and international governmental bodies and institutions. We organized several expeditions between those the more important are: on the shipwreck of WWI Austro-Hungarian battleship Szent Istvàn (three expeditions with the Croatian ministry of culture), on the shipwreck of WWI Italian Battleship Regina Margherita, on the shipwreck of the WWI destroyer Intrepido, on the shipwreck of WWI troop carrier Re Umberto, on the shipwreck of the WWII hospital ship PO, all of those found by us (with the appointment Albanian Ministry of Culture), on the WWII Nazi Liner and Hospital Ship Wilhelm Gustloff in Poland and finally to the shipwreck of WWII submarine Scirè in Israel (with the appointment of the Italian Government and the Israeli Antiquities Authority). In all of those project I was the organizer and the expedition leader. I was recently active also in the field of underwater archaeology, this summer we surveyed two deep water roman wrecks in Montenegro and we train government officials how to dive at that depths and survey and protect the site.