What other people have published about this boat and the family that runs her.
Pufferfish make a sound — a rasping noise you would not expect from a fish. Osman filmed it on deck, and the food-industry outlet Gıda Bülteni used the footage in a piece on the pufferfish spreading into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. The credit reads “a tour boat owner in Kekova”; it does not name him, which is how these things usually travel.
In September 2020, coming back from a Kekova tour, Osman found a young loggerhead in the water with its shell broken by a boat propeller. He called the local volunteer Osman Keskin and the two of them lifted it aboard; it went on to DEKAMER in Muğla for treatment. We mention it because people ask what a boatman does when the sea is not a business that day.
I drink tea on the boat and I fish. Sometimes I get bored, but the beauty of the sea is enough.
Said to a reporter in April 2020, when a curfew kept everyone at home and he chose to sit it out aboard. The occasion has dated; the sentence has not.
The programme Evdeki Mutluluk filmed a segment aboard on the way to Kaleköy — the boat, the channel between the islands, and the village with no road in. The segment starts at 39:35.
Evdeki Mutluluk — Kaleköy’e tekne ile yolculuk — Vahe Kılıçarslan · 39:35
