Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı, known as the 'Fisherman of Halicarnassus', Halikarnas Balıkçısı was the founder of the famous 'Blue Cruise' in Turkey. A historian, humanist and ecologist. Halikarnas Balıkçısı was one of Turkey's most popular writers and has been described as a modern homer.

The man with eyes the color of the sea, sentenced to a three year exile in Bodrum, transformed his exile into freedom, blue and green into poetry. The sea cruises he went on little fishermen and sponge boats with his humanist intellectual friends in 1950s, became to be known as the “Blue Cruise” in the travel literature.

A 'Blue Cruise' in Turkey begins with the intention to get to know the early civilizations on the shores of the Mediterranean and the Aegean. The purpose of this cruise all through Gökova Gulf, Gulf of Hisarönü, Marmaris, Gulf of Fethiye down to Antalya is to reconnect people with nature and to present the geography with the heritage of culturel treasures amongst the beauty of nature.