Karamürsel

With no signs of mucilage and the reproduction of an endangered species, the submerged İnönü vessel has become a light of hope to experts that the Marmara Sea is "not dying."

The İnönü vessel, which was submerged in 2013 off the northwestern province of Kocaeli's Karamürsel district, was covered with heavy layers of mucilage in June 2021.

A district mayor in the northwestern province of Kocaeli on March 1 rescued a diver from drowning during a ceremony commemorating victims of one of the country's deadliest civil marine accidents.

Twenty-five percent of the vegetables and fruits we eat contain pesticides ? in other words, chemical residue, at a level much higher than acceptable, Akdeniz University has said. In a study the university has been conducting for three years, it was found that the rate of contaminated vegetables and fruit were increasing every year.