Ferries in Istanbul Ferries in Istanbul The city of Istanbul is at a geographic crossroads, straddling Europe and Asia Minor, and is divided by a sea lane called the Bosphorus Strait, which joins the Black Sea in the northeast and the Marmara Sea in the southwest. This strait has played a key role in the history of the city. Boats have traversed the waters of the Bosphorus for millennia and until the opening of the first Bosphorus bridge in 1973, were the only mode of transport between the European and Asian halves of Istanbul. They continue to serve as a key public transport
Marine life of the Strait of Messina the Strait of Messina is the presence of a varied and numerous bathypelagic fauna that, transported to the surface by the upwelling current from the South can be easily captured still alive in the points of greater turbulence, or found stranded along the coasts after adverse weather conditions. Examples are "Chauliodus sloani", "Argyropelecus hemigymnus" and "Myctophum punctatum". The Strait of Messina is an important migratory route of the Mediterranean Sea. The best known and important, from an economic point of view, are the great pelagic fish - that is the Tuna ("Thunnus thynnus"), the Albacore ("Thunnus alalunga"), the Atlantic bonito