Decio Lucano died at the age of 86, a professional of reference in the restricted world of journalists who deal with shipping, with a career that has been unraveled before, from 1965 to 1987, founding and directing the monthly "Vita e Mare" and then, from 1969 to 2007, founding and directing the monthly magazine "Technologies and Transport for the Sea Naval Automation - TTM". In the meantime and after he founded together with Alberto Cameli the annual San Giorgio award for nautical graduates and shipping personalities, has He has collaborated with various newspapers, he has been involved in training and he wrote books.

In our meetings, before when written journalism was exclusively paper, and then, when it also became digital, with the always courteous Decio we discussed the other on this evolution of the profession and the communication. Reluctant to be the first to deal with an innovation that has alarm and perplexity in many and still continues to worry about its vastness, in which it seems impossible to to orient myself, I was certain that Decius would also be able to navigate in this sea that, for someone like me who has been sailing it for thirty years, appears more and more infinite. And so it was with his electronic sheet "DL News", circulated since 2008, with which has continued to deal with the sea at 360 degrees, and therefore also with culture, history, economy, innovation. In short, of past and future, because for those who have things to say, like Decius, it is not certainly the means to curb the intentions.

Bruno Bellio