The continental slope area between offshore Monopoli and the Gargano promontory (south Adriatic) has been investigated during the cruise SETE 2006 (SEdimentation and TEctonics). The main goals were: - to define the dynamics of the erosional and mass failure processes linked to the depositional sequences prograding forward the slope; - to understand the interaction between the sedimentary dynamics and the tectonic structure affecting the South Adriatic shelf and slope; - to understand the distribution and the lateral variability of fold and faults system along the deformation area known as Gondola faults; - to define the morphology of the areas affected by submarine slides and the morphology of the Bari Canyon (main submarine Adriatic canyon); - to detect and to study several areas affected by sediment waves and bottom currents depositional features (typically with growing direction towards the continental shelf); - to study the Bari Canyon and the relationship between the erosional phase and the advancement from the continental shelf; - to sample corals (living and sub-fossil) in canyon and in slope areas affected by bottom currents; - to collect long piston cores across stratigraphic sequences suitable to study the palaeoclimatic and the paleoceanographic evolution of the Adriatic sea.