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A fishing crew in Türkiye’s Canakkale province brought up an anchor weighing about 3 tons that local officials estimate to be 150–200 years old, after it snagged on their nets off the Aegean coast.
Fisherman Hasan Norcu put out nets from the vessel “Korfez,” a girgir boat (a purse-seine fishing vessel), after leaving Odunluk Iskelesi, the local pier in Geyikli.
When the gear caught on a heavy object on the seabed near the Bozcaada–Gokceada stretch, at roughly 80 meters in depth, the crew realized it was an anchor and headed back to shore.
With a crane, workers lifted the anchor onto the pier and Geyikli Municipality transported it to the Bayrakli kavsagi (a traffic roundabout) for public display.
Mayor Mevlut Orucoglu said they assess the artifact as roughly 150–200 years old and likely from a large ship, adding that it had remained underwater for many years and now stands at the town’s roundabout.
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