{"id":6306,"date":"2014-03-06T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/?page_id=6306"},"modified":"2015-04-20T21:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T19:50:48","slug":"sometimes-maldives-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/project\/sometimes-maldives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMETIMES MALDIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">In early 2012, we found ourselves in deep blue waters of Maldives. Throughout a week, we woke up at 6\u00a0o\u2019clock every morning for diving.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_posts_grid loop=&#8221;size:1|order_by:date|post_type:page|by_id:6363&#8243; grid_columns_count=&#8221;1&#8243; grid_layout=&#8221;image|link_post&#8221; grid_link_target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; grid_layout_mode=&#8221;fitRows&#8221; grid_thumb_size=&#8221;full&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are living in such a world that life places so many responsibilities on all of us. We need to work very hard; to have a happy family life, to prosper professionally and leave a good trace behind, and to experience happiness, a feeling whose definition varies for everybody, we work very, very hard. We are exhausted, both physically and mentally\u2026 Sometimes we want to run away, seeking a calm world that would make us happy where we could get away from everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes we want to run away, seeking a calm world that would make us happy where we could get away from everything.\u00a0We are eight lucky friends, who seek this calm but exhilarating world under the water\u2026 Therefore, we make diving trips of not shorter than a week in a different country every year, and we almost never step out of water\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In early 2012, we found ourselves in the deep blue waters of Maldives. Throughout a week, we woke up at six o\u2019clock every morning for diving.\u00a0Flapping like a flag in sloping waters, we watched sharks; flipped swimfins in pursuit of manta rays and whale sharks; dived into schools of fish like\u00a0mischievous children and watched the hunting sharks during our night dives. We spent four hours underwater every day. Why did we get up so early?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why did we never get bored? Why did we keep thinking that this week should not end? Here in this book, we wanted to share what we witnessed in Maldives for a week and what we learned from nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dive Crew:<\/strong> Alptekin Balo\u011flu, Ali Sabanc\u0131, Birkan Babakol, Emre Kurttepeli, Turgut G\u00fcrsoy, M.Kemal C\u0131l\u0131z, Kerim Sabuncuo\u011flu, Emre Berkin<br \/>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text] In early 2012, we found ourselves in deep blue waters of Maldives. Throughout a week, we woke up at 6\u00a0o\u2019clock every morning for diving. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_posts_grid loop=&#8221;size:1|order_by:date|post_type:page|by_id:6363&#8243; grid_columns_count=&#8221;1&#8243; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6126,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6306\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alptekinbaloglu.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}