Marmaris Bay is one of the important touristic places in Turkey. Since it has only one connection with the open seas it is said to be a closed bay. Pollution is a major problem in this kind of bays; therefore we tried to make a mechanism that would, by using wave energy, clean the bay. We could also use the same mechanism to generate electricity.
According to our results, the application of such a mechanism can flush most of the bay clean approximately every thirty days.

We worked on this project while we were students at Inanc Lisesi. All of the experiments were conducted at Istanbul Technical University with the guidance of Prof. Ali Riza Gunbak and Dr. Simon Butterworth and the numerical modeling was done at Arti Proje.

This project won the Jury Special Award in the MEF 11th Annual National Research Project Contest in Istanbul and was presented at the International Conference for Physics Students 2002 and at the 12th European Physical Society Conference in Budapest as well as at STFA Holding Co (leading construction company in Turkey). Cagatay Bircan was selected the "Best Lecturer" at the International Conference for Physics Students.

Adem Kader is now a student at Swarthmore College and is majoring in Engineering and minoring in Math and Computer Sciences. Cagatay Bircan and Ersen Bilgin are both at Williams College. Ersen is double majoring in Physics and Computer Sciences while Cagatay is pursuing a degree in Economics and Math. Zafer Faydali is at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Electrical Engineering.