Yalıkavak Marina

This guide to Yalıkavak Marina starts with a sponge diver kicking for the surface too fast, and traces the bay's earlier life as one of the Bodrum peninsula's sponge-diving harbors, worked with a heavy bronze-helmeted suit introduced in 1865. It follows a French navy doctor's 1867 study of divers using that suit, and the bacterial blight that ended the whole industry in the 1980s. Stand at the water's edge and picture the fleet that once worked this same bay before the yachts.