While the Atlantic may seem pale and anaemic, the Mediterranean is a myriad of blues with a mindset and history of its own. Through the narrow straits at Gibraltar waters rush from the Iberian peninsular past Palma and Algiers via the Pelopponese on to the Levant.

While the Atlantic may seem pale and anaemic, the Mediterranean is a myriad of blues with a mindset and history of its own. Through the narrow straits at Gibraltar waters rush from the Iberian peninsular past Palma and Algiers via the Pelopponese on to the Levant.