Bodies of water

A total of 304 people lost their lives by drowning after getting caught in a rip current in the Black Sea between 2012 and 2022, an expert has stated.

Academic Mustafa Serkan Abdüsselam from Giresun University stated that the number of drowning incidents caused by rip currents, commonly known as "pulling currents," has been increasing year by year.

Three people have died and up to 12 others are missing after a dinghy carrying migrants overturned near the Greek resort island of Mykonos, officials said.

A Hong Kong-flagged ship briefly ran aground Thursday in Egypt's vital Suez Canal, though authorities said they were able to refloat it after it momentarily disrupted the waterway.

Greece has secured 24 million euros in European Union funding to upgrade its northern Aegean Sea port of Alexandroupoli, privatization agency TAIPED said on Wednesday.

Alexandroupoli has been used by US military ships to unload munitions and move them to the eastern flank of NATO.

Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, the second such capture by Tehran in under a week amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program.

Local residents and businesses on Sifnos are backing a letter recently sent by the municipality to three ministries, calling for a ban on swimming pools, underground buildings, the alteration of the island's architectural heritage and the destruction of paths.

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Friday said he expects a moratorium with Greece in military and airforce exercises in the Aegean Sea between June 15 and September 15, to accommodate tourism, as relations continued to thaw following the deadly earthquakes in Turkey last February.

A huge iceberg nearly the size of Greater London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf near a research station, the second such split in two years, researchers announced on Jan. 23.

Ferries to the islands of Cyclades, Crete, the northern Aegean islands and the Dodecanese remain docked at the main ports of Attica - Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio - due to the strong winds of up to 9 on the Beaufort scale recorded on Wednesday in the Aegean.

Norwegian-flagged Viking Sky, the first cruise ship of 2023 in Türkiye, has docked in the Aegean province of Aydın's Kuşadası district.

While some of the tourists disembarked from the ship docking at Ege Port, some took part in tours and visited historical sites such as the Ancient City of Ephesus and the House of the Virgin Mary.