Underwater museums in Turkey, warships can be seen

The Dardanelles method has flown over. A museum has been built under that stream of water. The wreckage of 14 ships commemorating the First World War has been found in this museum in Turkey. The museum was inaugurated last Saturday.

The museum is reminiscent of the fierce battles between Ottoman and Allied forces, part of the central power during World War I. At the beginning of World War II, forces from the United Kingdom, France, Australia and New Zealand launched a major offensive against the Central Powers. Ottoman and German forces repulsed the attack.

That resistance of the Ottomans in modern Turkey is remembered with deep dignity. The United Kingdom suffered heavy losses in that war. The country’s 120-meter-long HMS Majestic warship sank. The underwater museum, called The Gallipoli Historic Underwater Park, was inaugurated 108 years after the war.

After the inauguration last Saturday, Turkish photographer Sabas Caracas visited the seabed museum. There, he said, the museum reminded him of his grandfather. His grandfather fought in Gallipoli in 1915 during World War I. “My grandfather’s hand was burned and deformed,” said Caracas, a resident of Istanbul. I was scared to see it all the time. But when I come to Gallipoli and dive under the water, rusty metal fragments and steel debris remind me of Grandpa’s hand. I think I held his hand under the water. ‘

“We are a lucky generation,” said Ali Etheme Keskin, another photographer in Istanbul. Because, we can still see those patterns. ’He added,‘ When I start diving, I feel the pressure of war. I can feel those moments of fear and terror in the First World War. ‘
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Turkish photographer Savas Caracas was the first to visit the museum in a motor boat since it opened on Saturday (October 2nd). He said that by going there, he was able to reconnect with his grandfather. His grandfather took part in the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.

Caracas, who lives in Istanbul, said: “His grandfather’s hand was mutilated and his skin was burned in that battle. That’s why I was always afraid of my grandfather. ‘

He added, ‘But when I come to Gallipoli and dive. Then the rusty metal and steel of the wreckage of the ships reminded me of my grandfather’s hand, as if I were holding his hand under the water. ‘

Turkey has opened the Gallipoli Historic Underwater Park 107 years after British, French, Australian and New Zealand forces stopped invading Ottoman and Allied Germany.