Name: Büyükada - Pigeon Cave
Rating: 4.0

İstanbul

Adalar

Turkey

This is a narrow crack on a wall which is going into the land about 30 meters, some places are very narrow and there are fallen stones from  the top of the crack and many of them ready to fall. At the end because of the fallen stones you have to stop and to come out of the water then to look to the ceiling in a way to get panic and try to go out of there. Also you can see some wild pigeons  when you come at surface in the cave. 

It is a crack on the wall which the half of it is in the sea, you need a boat to go there.

Büyükada - Pigeon Cave is also known as Peristerona.

Büyükada - Pigeon Cave

This is crescent shape reef if you look from the top, there are some walls which the top of them 18 and the bottom 32 meters, if you continue to west direction the sandy bottom will go to 50-55 meters but all sand. This reef once upon a time was famous with big scorpion fish and sea breams but nowadays very few, if you are lucky you can see some. 

This reef is close to ısland Neandros, it is about 1.5 miles south from Büyükada and in the midlle of sea.

Neandros - Kufos reef

You can follow the wall which starts from 10 meters and go till 25 and you will see that sand comes, you make second jump and after about 30-40 meters to west direction you will meet the second group of rocks,you can find a cave on this rocks which you go in at 37 meters and climb to 29 meters in a hall with full of Sciaena Umbras (latin name). After if you want you can go till 55 meters end.

This reef is close to Neandros, you need a boat to go there, very crowded in summer time.

Neandros - Tektas is also known as Monopetro.

Neandros - Tektas





Neandros is also known as Balikci Adasi.

Neandros

This reef was a spiny lobsters, sea breams, common pandoras paradise unfortunately nowadays not much to see because of unlimited fishing  techniques of big mechanical fishing boats. Everything is been destroyed by this huge nets of big fishing boats. But still we are visiting all the reefs to clean the remaining nets from there.

This reef is in the middle of sea between Sedefadası and Kartal.

Sedef - Ay.Yani is also known as Kıyı taş.

Sedef - Ay.Yani

Once upon a time was a best place for red snappers, breams and spiny lobsters like the other reefs in the area,nowadays unfortunately is destroyed with the big mechanical fishing boats huge nets(Ghost fishing). We are 3 divers and trying to clean this junk nets from all over the reefs. Again and again.  

You can go there by boat,its almost 500-600 meters from Sedef ısland in the middle of the sea towards East direction from the ısland.

Sedef - Kara ev is also known as Sedef-Kara ev.

Sedef - Kara ev

This is a new wreck it's there since 1997, it was an accident with a local ferry (M/S Suadiye) and sunk immediately with no human loss. It's almost 50 meters long a metal ship, at the bottom of the sea its stays like at the surface sailing position and heading N/W direction, on the wreck there are many nets of the big fishing boats, before they understand there was wreck down. The wreck is in very good condition you can see every equipment on, its still undiscovered by diving community and diving courses.

This rweck is between Heybeliada and Maltepe, you have to know the place and take care of boat traffic.

Heybeliada - Karakaya  Wreck is also known as Heybeliada - Kum Kosteri.

Heybeliada - Karakaya  Wreck

This reef was also a paradise till the end of 70' lies with spiny lobsters, common dentex, common pandoras, sea breams, brown meagres as fishes and Red gorgonians, Yellow gorgonians and many other beauties. Unfortunately the big mechanical fishing boats with their huge nets destroys everything at the bottom of the sea. We are diving and trying to clean the remaining nets from reef but this is keep going and nobody cares about it. I have a lot of videos about this, which I filmed.    

This reef is also between Sedefadası and Kartal.

Sedef - Mudurlu is also known as Açık taş.

Sedef - Mudurlu

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