Underwater tourism becomes a new trend

Over 150,000 people have dived beneath the Aegean city of Bodrum's waters to visit two wrecked warships deliberately submerged last year and a warplane submerged this year as part of a new project.

The Bodrum Black Island Artificial Ledge and Sunken Rocks project was prepared in the Bodrum district of Muğla to improve underwater tourism.

Chairman of Bodrum Underwater Association, or BOSAD, Ihsan Küçükünal, said the war planes and ships form a shelter for many sea creatures as well as helping diving tourism. There has been a lot interest in the warships and plane submerged in different bays of Black Island. Festivals that we organized to introduce our underwater beauties to the world and to improve diving tourism also provided great benefit for us. Our aim is to increase the diving points other than the Black Island and thus bring more tourists to our country...[Turkish Daily News]