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KAŞ DIVING GUIDE

by admin on Jun.17, 2010, under KAŞ

Çok  değer verdiğim, kendisi güzel bir insan olan MURAT DRAMAN’IN kitabı.

Görmeyenlere duyurulur, mükemmel fotoğraflar, haritalar ve bilgilerle süslü olan ve içerisinde latince isimlerden log book’a kadar birçok bölüm bulunan bu kitabı almayı unutmayın ! Şiddetle tavsiye edilir………….

Kitaba aşağıdaki linkleri kullanarak ulaşabilirsiniz.

www.thedivingguidekas.com

www.dragoman-turkey-com

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MACRO SIMILLAN ISLANDS

by admin on Mar.18, 2010, under Macro, Thailand

I would like to share some of the macro pictures from my trip to Thailand. I will try to share them and give information about the species as much as I could.

Please click on the figure in order to enlarge them

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We have spent 40 days in Thailand and Cambodia and I had a chance to dive in different locations in Thailand. The first one was Beautiful Simillan Islands. These pictures were from East of Eden dive sight (night dive).

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Simillan Islands is northwest of Phuket. You can either go there from Phuket with daily tours (which I don’t recommend as it takes long time to get there) or you can go up north to the town where they take you to the Islands. Spending some time there, is a better way to experience the place.


I wish I had some more chances for night diving as I have encountered many nocturnal animals (night time lovers).Night diving gives great opportunities for photography and better light.

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We spent one night and 2 days of diving in Simillan Islands (5 dives), great place and rich marine life.

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The only dissapontment for me was not seeing any sharks or other big guys except for turtles but the richness of the marine life is stunning indeed.

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Medüzler ve Deniz Anaları

by admin on Mar.16, 2010, under Eastern Mediterranean Marine Species, Hydroids - Hidroyid, Project Locations, İstanbul

İstanbul çok karlı çıktı proje çekimleri için gittiğimde. Daha önce hiç dalmamıştım Marmara Denizinde ve hayran oldum. O bulanık tabakanın altında rengarenk bir zemin, bir sürü anemon, sünger tunikat, mercan ve eklembacaklı  türü bekliyormuş meğer. Birsürü ilave yapma fırsatını bulduk oluşturduğum veritabanına.

Rhizostoma pulmo

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Özellikle Sivri Adaya bayıldım. Burada 35 metre derinliğe kadar indim ve fotograllarını çekebildiğim türleri yavaş yavaş paylaşacağım sizlerle. Sivri Adanın yanısıra Kalamış Marina içerisinde de  dalış yaptım dayımın teknesinin altında biriken kekomozları ve pervaneyi temizlemek için. Temizlik sonunda pontonların etrafında biraz dolaştım ve filtrasyon yoluyla ve mikroroganizmalarla beslenen canlı çeşitliliği inanılmaz şaşırttı beni.

Güzelcede bir fotoğraf ortaya çıktı A. aurita deniz anası önde dayımın teknesi arkada. Baya sevdim ben bu kareyi

Aurelia aurita

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Sivri Adadan sonra dalış yaptığım Yandros Büyük Adanın arkasında bir kayalık. Burdada 26 metre kadar bir derinliğe indim ve kum zeminde birçok deniz kalemi, sünger ve tunikatla karşılaştım. O sırada geniş açı lens olduğu için (Sivri adada makroydu) bu tarz çekimler yapabildim ama makroda aklımda kalmadı değil. Burda karşılaştığım deniz anası türü R. pulmo harika fotoğraflar verdi ve çok güzel bir girdi oldu veritabanına.

Geçmiş yıllarda karşılaştığım bu deniz anasınıda paylaşmak istiyorum yeri gelmişken. Yazın Akdeniz’de görülebilen bu deniz anasının en ilginç özelliği yakıcı tentikülleri arasında koruma bulan yavru balıklar. Bunlar çeşitli olabilmekte ama burdakiler akya yavrusu. S. dumerili

Cotylorhiza tuberculata-Fried Egg Jellyfish

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Bu yıl Mayıs ayında istanbula gelince yine dalışlar yapmayı planlıyorum. 4-5 dalış yapabilirsem oldukça fazla sayıda yeni türü fotoğraflama dırsatı bulabileceğimi düşünüyorum. Marmara Denizi çok farklı bir ekosistem ve düzelmek üzere okuduğum kadarıyla. Bakalım neler çıkıcak Mayısta…..

mert

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Dancing on the fishing line

by admin on Mar.11, 2010, under Eastern Mediterranean Marine Species, Sea Slugs & Flatworms

Flabellina affinis

During the search for new species for my project, this beautiful seaslug was dancing on the fishing line as I saw it. Its movents was beautiful changing shape every second with the current. It was trying to find his way receiving chemical signals from the water probably and eating his lunch,  the algae on the fishing line

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Question: Guess where it was trying to reach?

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 Answer: Tring to reach to another one which is waiting on the Eudendrium hydroid species full off Flabellina eggs at the background

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Sivridişli Müren

by admin on Dec.20, 2009, under Turgutreis, VIDEOS

Yaban TV’deki Gizli Derinlikler için çekilen sualtı video görüntüleri. Enchelycore anatina
(Sivridişli muren) 25 metrelerde duvarda bir çatlakta dinlenmekte.

Turgutreis Çatal Ada Ağustos 2009

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Yaban TV’dekiGizli Derinlikler

by admin on Dec.20, 2009, under Turgutreis, VIDEOS

Yaban TV’dekiGizli Derinlikler için çekilen sualtı video görüntüleri.
Labrus mixtus (Benekli lapin-cuckoo wrasse) 20 metrelerde kaya altında Ircinia türü bir süngerin üzerinde dinlenmekte.
Turgutreis Çatal Ada Ağustos 2009

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Algae-Alg

by admin on Jun.20, 2009, under Algea & Seagrass

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ALGLER

İşte bu bölümde tanımlamalarda problemlerim var. Elimde alglere yönelik çok kaynak yok, Suana kadar fotograflayabildeklerim türler bunlar. Ama mutlaka arşivde benim gözümden kaçanlar vardır.

Elimdeki kaynaklar arttıkça, yardımlar geldikçe bu türlerin ve diğerlerininde isimlerini burada yer vermeye çalışacağım. Alglerin uzun bi süredir biyoteknoloji biliminin yoğunlaştığı ailelerden biri. Algler, başta kozmetik olmak üzere besin, sağlık ve daha birçok sektördede arıştırmaların devam ettiği ve son ürünlere ulaşabilen bazı deniz canlılarını içinde barındırmakta.

Bu türlerden N.D. ile gösterilmiş olanlar tanımlayamadıkları. Bilginiz varsa bekliyorum yorumlarınızı. 

ALGAE

I have some problems in this part. My knowledge with algae is not so good. The references I have and net sources doesn’t give alot of information about them. These are all the species that I could capture upto now. I will add more species in here whenever I get better sources and capture more images.

Algae is a very interesting family of marine animals as it has many uses in marine biotechnology. There are quite a good number of scientific research going on about algae in many marine institutes around the world. Additionally there are some end products that found usage in Cosmetics, food, health and etc. fields.

The species that are identified as N.D. are species that I couldn’t find species name. Please help me if you have knowledge on them.

 

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Coast Guard Wreck – Sahil Guvenlik Batıgı

by admin on May.11, 2009, under Wrecks

SG115

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Please click on the image for larger view and slideshow. Fotografları buyutmek için lutfen bastakı fotografın uzerıne tıklayın, slideshow icin sag okla devam edın.

This coast guard boat was wrecked in may 2007 by the Bodrum Underwater Association-BOSAD in order to create an artificial environment for marine animals and attract divers around the globe. It is sitting on the rock with a 15 degrees elevation. The sea life inside it limited now but with time I am guessing it will host alot of species.

A safe wreck dive for all level licensed divers. The highest part starts at 18 meters and the lowest part sits on 30 meters. SG115 was a 29 meter attack boat of the Turkish Coast Guard and was donated to the diving society of Bodrum in 2007

Bodrum Su Altı Derneği, hazırlamış olduğu Bodrum Karaada Yapay Resif – Batık Projeleri kapsamında Mayıs 2007’de Deniz Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı ve Sahil Güvenlik Komutanlığı tarafından derneğe bağışlanan iki adet gemiyi, Karaada’da farklı noktalara batırılarak yapay resifler oluşturmuştur. Sahil güvenlik botuda bunlardan biridir. SG115, daha önceleri Sahil Güvenlik komutanlıgına baglı olarak atak botu olarak gorev yağmıstır. Batık 17 metreden baslayıp 30 metreye kadar devam etmektedir. Su ana kadar icerisindeki canlı yasamı az olsada ilerleyen yıllarda oldukca fazla canlıyı icerisnde barındıracaktır. Bu dalısta bana sevgili arkadasım olan lokal dalıs hocalarından Ruksan Ozsoz eslik etti ve modellik yaptı.

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Fishes-Pisces

by admin on Apr.30, 2009, under Fishes - Balıklar

Hi Fish Lovers!

Like the other categories in my Eastern Mediterranean Marine Species Database I will add as much species as possible weekly. But the story with fishes will be a long one I suppose. There are not many speciesin the list right now but with divesprogress you won’t beleive how many different species of fish you will get to see here.

The species numbers will grow fast as I dive every other day, but it will slow down when I got many species and finding new ones will be a challange. I could ask for images from other photographers but it wouldn’t be so much fun then. I will try to get all the pictures by myself.

Another nice thing is you will get to see new pictures, when I got a better picture of that species I will upload that one. I don’t think that I will do many mistakes about the species names here as it is easier to identify. I will consult some of the taxonomy people in the scientific community for fishes as well. If you get to find a mistake please leave a massage.

So till the next post for fishes, keep tight!

Plesae do visit every now and then.

thanks,

mert

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Sponges Updated

by admin on Apr.29, 2009, under Sponges - Süngerler

Hi there,

The images shown above are from the first 9 dives I did for my underwater database project. I did those dives around  Bodrum Peninsula. The first dive was behind Catal Island of Bodrum (the coast guard wreck), second one to the big reef of Bodrum and the third one was at a beach in Gokova Bay. The first dive was done to 27metres, second one was 20 metres and the third one was to 28 metres depth. These dives were done with the help of Erman Diving Center of Bodrum.

The 6th and 7th dives were done at Big Reef of Bodrum 25 meters and Wolf Point 2o meters. These dives were done in Aquapro Diving Center Bodrum-Bitez 

The last dives were done to Turgutreis Tüllüce Island 28 meters and Sarıot Rocks 30 meters. These dives were done with the help of Aquanaut Diving Center of Turgutreis.

I have pictured many species but thought it will be better to start with the one that I know most. I did my thesis on sponges so I have some knowledge about them.

I tried to identify as much species a possible. The identifications of the species are done all by photographs both from the sources in the net and my old sponge archive. I would have like to have a microscobic identifation to be 100% sure but don’t have that possiblity for now. But good news I am getting help from one of the best underwater nomenculature experts about Eastern Mediterranean.

It is possible to have mistakes about the scentific names, so if you find one don’t hesitate to leave a comment about it. Promise, I won’t be angry, oppositely I will be very pleased.

I have collected some fish species some, slugs, tunicates and etc. There are around 100 species in the system now. I will try to work fast and add new sub categories, species and images to my Eastern Mediterranean Marine Species Database every week.

Two images for you;

  • The first one is a large wide angle image, nice underwater view
  • The second one is a closer version of the first one. Look how many different marine species you will get to find. Don’t you think it will be nice to get to know all!  I am not an institute of Marine Science, If you think that I am nuts for working on this, you are probably right. But it will be a good effort at the end, alot of people will be benefiting from it.

 

 

 

Another important thing is:

I ‘ve been trying to find a nice gallery option for wordpress for the database project I have in mind.
I tried NextGen, lightbox, Featured Gallery and etc. But couldnt find it anywhere. İt was very frustrating but I will find it eventually.

What I need is under a sub category, I want to give thumbnails of images with species name under it and when you click it will open up larger image with related descriptions for that species. And if I can have a gallery option there like a slide show, it will be very nice.

I you have an idea please share it. Putting all the existing species that I can picture into a database makes me very exited, I am hoping that it will be very useful for everybody.
Thats all for now!
Keep watching you will see very vierd creatures here..
Don’t hesitate to leave a comment! All will be answered.

mert

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