Advenway
Advenway
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Record source: TSSF register of authorized dive centers (e-Devlet), August 2026 · The source of each dive site is stated on the site's own record · Regional record — no coordinate published for the individual sites
Every dive site and authorized dive center we have been able to verify in Turkey, on one map: 276 sites on the Aegean, Mediterranean, Marmara and Black Sea coasts and in inland waters, and 288 centers listed in the register of the Turkish Underwater Sports Federation (TSSF).
These markers show the address a center has on file in the TSSF register. A center's office can sit in the middle of town: theory and pool sessions run there, while open-water dives leave from a marina by boat. The register also lists universities, fire brigades and search-and-rescue units, all licensed to train divers.
Natural reefs, wrecks, artificial reef areas and submarine nets. Where several sites share one bay they sit under a single marker and are listed inside it — two pins on the same coordinate would claim a precision we do not have.
Some markers stand for an area rather than one site, because no published source gives coordinates for the individual sites there. Each of them says so on the marker.
Each site shows the depth recorded for it, and nothing more. We do not turn depth into a diver level: no source available to us publishes a difficulty rating for dive sites in Turkey, and inventing one would feed straight into somebody's dive plan. Which certification a site calls for, and whether the conditions suit you on the day, is decided by the dive center you go with.
Dive centers come from the TSSF register of authorized centers, read through the Turkish e-government service; 240 of 288 have a coordinate (83%), and the rest are kept in the catalogue without a pin rather than placed at a guessed spot.
Dive sites are collected one by one, and each record carries a badge saying which ground it stands on: published by a public body under that name, corroborated by at least two independent sources, or resting on a single source — in which case ask a local dive center before you plan around it. A badge records accountability, not a guarantee of accuracy.
Turkey has no national, machine-readable coordinate register for dive sites; where a coordinate was derived from a place name instead of an official publication, the marker says so.
Dives at these sites are made through authorized dive centers. Several stretches of coast are protected areas with rules of their own — night diving is prohibited throughout the Kaş–Kekova Special Environmental Protection Area, for example — and protected archaeological wrecks are not open as recreational dive sites.
Rules change, and the center you dive with is responsible for current permissions.
Record source. TSSF register of authorized dive centers (e-Devlet), August 2026. The source of each dive site is stated on the site's own record.
Sites by province, counted from the same records that draw the map. Every province with a recorded dive site has its own English page.
Every record with a coordinate is listed here with its name, depth and district — the same 529 records the map draws across 322 markers.
Every dive site and every center also has a Turkish page, with sources, depth notes and marine life.
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