Diving in Turkey

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Started off as an underwater visualization competition under the name of “The Living Marmara - Despite All” in 1993, the festival has had an international configuration since 2001 by inviting many international jury members and competitors. The aim of the festival is to attract attention to the pollution in the Marmara Sea, to create awareness in the society and to present the underwater beauties of our country besides its beauties aboveground.

Turkey is where East meets West. A small part is in Europe, the larger part is in Asia. The main dive centres are at Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye, Kas and Alanya.

Turkey attracts particular attention for its diving centers in the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea and the natural beauty of the seas. Numerous diving centers and their experienced teams will open doors to a whole new world where you can experience a different dimension of freedom. A great variety of fish species, coral reefs, wrecks and all other underwater beauties are waiting to welcome diving lovers at diving destinations such as Kaş in Anatlya province, Çeşme in Izmir province and Bodrum in addition to Fethiye in Muğla province.

Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a self contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) to breathe underwater.  Unlike other modes of diving, which rely either on breath-hold or on air pumped from the surface, scuba divers carry their own source of breathing gas, (usually compressed air),  allowing them greater freedom of movement than with an air line or diver's umbilical and longer underwater endurance than breath-hold.