Traditionally
called Boğaziçi more recently it’s been called the İstanbul Boğazı, Istanbul
Strait, maybe to differentiate it from the Hellespont (Dardanelles), called the
Çanakkale Boğazı.
The width of
the Strait varies from 1640 feet (500 meters) to 3 km (2 miles), its depth from
164 to 394 feet (50 to 120 meters), averaging about 197 feet (60 meters) deep.
It is
crossed by 3 suspended bridges and a rail tunnel: the southernmost Boğaziçi
Köprüsü (Bosphorus Bridge), the central Fatih Sultan Mehmet Köprüsü (Mehmet the
Conqueror Bridge) by the Marmaray Railroad Tunnel, and by the Yavuz Sultan
Selim Bridge at the Bosphorus’s northern-end confluence with the Black Sea.
Bosphorus Tour İstanbul
The best way to see the İstanbul Bosphorus tour in all
its beauty is to take a boat trip. That is the strategic waterway linking the
Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and dividing İstanbul into 2 continents. As the
vessel zigzags between Europe and Asia, you can admire the old Ottoman wooden
houses (Yalı), six Ottoman palaces, three suspended bridges, and two medieval
castles.
What makes
İstanbul an unmatched city of the planet is the Bosphorus Strait indeed.
Bosphorus is a waterway linking the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea, on the other
hand, diving İstanbul into 2 parts as Europe and Asia. Taking a boat tour on
the water and view numerous palaces, monuments, seafront villas and much more
is a must, for those who love to take a boat tour on the Strait.
İstanbul Bosphorus
İstanbul
Bosphorus is one of the world’s busiest commercial shipping channels, with some
about 150 cargo vessels making the 90 - minutes passage every day (at 7 or 8
knots), carefully navigating the 7 precise turns necessary to follow the
Bosphorus’s narrow channels and avoid its treacherous currents.
Even though by law there are 2 highly versed local pilots aboard every ship
during the passage, and giant radar towers monitoring all maritime movements in
the Bosphorus, accidents occasionally happen.
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