Join DiveBuddy.com

Meet new scuba divers, maintain a virtual dive log, participate in our forum, share underwater photos, research dive sites and more. Members login here.

Scuba Forum
 
#20308
 Airbus A300 sunk off coast of Turkey to boost diving tourism
Smithsgold - 6/14/2016 4:32 PM
Category: General
Replies: 1
Airbus A300 sunk off coast of Turkey’s Kuşadası to boost diving tourism

dailysabah.com/tourism/2016/06/05/airbus-a300-sun...g-tourism-1465076614

Airbus A300 was sunk in the Aegean Sea off the coast of the southwestern resort town Kuşadası to serve as an artificial reef and attract tourists as part of a municipal project.

The airplane was brought on Saturday to the Güzelçamlı neighborhood of the town on five trucking rigs nearly 2 months after the dismantling process started in Istanbul on April 7.

The plane, which is reportedly the biggest plane ever used as a reef, cost 270,000 Turkish Lira, is 54 meters long and 44 meters wide.
#111
Subscribed
Mr_Peter - 6/19/2016 4:10 AM
Sounds intresting, and traveling turkey is cheap in the moment, as lots of european touriists hesitate travelling there due to the behaviour of theier president.