Scuba diving

First diving took place on June 15 to a passenger plane lowered into the sea a day earlier in northwestern Turkey to boost scuba diving tourism.       

Lead archeologist for the project of opening wrecks to visitors Dimitris Kourkoumelis dives to a 5th Century BC shipwreck, the first ancient shipwreck to be opened to the public in Greece, including to recreational divers who will be able to visit the wreck itself, near the coast of Peristera, Greece.

In November 2007, scuba diver Vassilis Mentogiannis joined a dive team from the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities on a mission to inspect the expansion of a port at Stratoni, Halkidiki, in northern Greece.

Divers from the Bulgarian town of Primorsko have arranged copies of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci at the bottom of the Black Sea.

Copies of the "The Last Supper" and "Mona Lisa" are the first paintings in the underwater exhibition.

The paintings are waterproof and fishes can be seen swimming around them, private bTV station informs.

?I told my team: ?I will complete 72 hours underwater? unless I die.?? ?I told my team: ?I will complete 72 hours underwater? unless I die.??

The Bulgarian Ina Dimitrova set a world record for the deepest scuba dive in saltwater for women.

Dimitrova descended to a depth of 201 metres during a training dive in the Red Sea on Tuesday, private bTV station reports.

Thus, the Bulgarian became the second woman to reach a depth of more than 200 metres.

Diving points in and around the southern province of Antalya have become popular attractions for adventurers. 

Besides natural diving spots, the wrecks of war planes and ships draw great interest, while the Side Underwater Museum has also become very popular among diving enthusiasts. 

Archaeologists set out Monday to use a revolutionary new deep sea diving suit to explore the ancient shipwreck where one of the most remarkable scientific objects of antiquity was found.

The so-called Antikythera Mechanism, a 2nd-century BC device known as the world’s oldest computer, was discovered by sponge divers in 1900 off a remote Greek island in the Aegean.

Turkey’s underwater richness cannot be protected because these areas are forbidden zones.