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  Sivri Ada (Island) This is a suitable place for diving since there is no settlement on the island where strong currents are dominant.It is a favorite spot among diving centers who come here on weekends to train their divers. You will have a chance to photograph many life forms during your dive in the sheltered harbours of the island. You may even see, at approximately 45 meters, the purple coloured nudibranches (Hypselodoris valenciennesi) that are usually found in the Aegean Sea. The few remaining broken pieces of amphoras are interesting for the new divers. The older and more experienced divers still tell exciting stories of how they dived 20 years ago with fishing spearss to catch dentex (Dentex dentex) and crawfish (Palinurus elephas) around the island and surrounding regions without forgetting to describe the famous stone at 67 meters. -This text is taken from the book `Diving Guide of Turkey` by Fehmi SENOK-

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  [edit] Sivriada Sivriada (Greek: Okseia) meanwhile is deserted. The island was often used by the Byzantine clerics as a distant place for peaceful worship, and by the Byzantine emperors as a convenient prison to detain prominent people whom they deemed troublesome. The first famous person to be imprisoned in the island by the order of emperor Nikephoros was Platon, the uncle of renowned cleric Theodoros Stoudites, for publishing books of pagan antiquity. Other famous people who stayed in the island for religious and political reasons were Gebon, Basileios Skleros, Nikephoritzes (the close servant of Michael VII Ducas), Patriarch John of Constantinople and Patriarch Michael II of Constantinople. The graves of those who died in the island during the Byzantine period can still be seen today. The ruins of a Roman settlement and a 9th century Byzantine monastery can still be seen on the shore, close to the fishermen's shelter, a small wharf which is often used by yachts. The most important buildings on the island were built in the 9th century AD, including a church, a chapel dedicated to religious martyrs, a monastery on the eastern end (with its walls still seen today) and a cistern in the center of the island (a part of which can still be seen.) In 1911 the governor of Istanbul ordered the stray dogs in the streets to be gathered and deposited to Sivriada, but a severe earthquake which immediately followed the event was perceived as "a punishment by God for abandoning the dogs" and they were transported back to the city.

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