Diving in Turkey

How to find diving trips?
Fethiye is one of many places on the Mediterranean coast appreciated by divers – both professional and amateur. We belonged to the latter group and did our first dives in life (and definitely not the last!) in lovely turquoise Fethiye waters. But, to start from the beginning:
There are a lot of companies offering diving trips, and the prices start from TL70-80 and go up to  TL120. We were looking around for scuba diving on Calis Beach Promenade, and most of the companies there offered cheap full day excursions of about TL70 – TL90. Having checked Lonely Planet travel guide, we also went to Fethiye marina looking for a specific company recommended by 

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.

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.