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Scuba Diving in Baikal Lake, Irkutsk Region, Listvyanka, Russia
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Dive Site: Sagan-Zaba
Location: Sagan-Zaba white marble rock, northern coast of Lake Baikal, 5 hours by ship from Litsvyanka
Description: Nature observation diving
Depth: Depends on your qualifications (up to 42 meters/138 feet)
Visibility: 15-20 meters (33-65 feet)
Rating: *****
Sagan-Zaba is the area of prehistoric people settlement. You can see many stone carvings in the rock (petroglyphs), depicting human figures, as well as birds and animals. Besides, this is an exceptionally beautiful piece of nature: both on the surface (the white marble rock gets sort of pink in the sun rays at dawn) and under the water. Speaking about the lake floor relief, it offers much opportunities to those interested in cave diving, I personally prefer to take no risk, especially because there is so much to see and ponder over apart from the unknown cave surprises. For example, some stones look like gold, but they prove to be not of metallic nature when touched – this is pure trick of the light in the water; other stones look like solid magma that came up boiling from the Earth depths; there are also polished white marble areas that look like chunks of ice; some underwater rocks are of so unusually intrinsic forms, that it makes one wonder what sort of natural phenomenon influenced their formation.
This is one of our favourite dive sites, as you can spend there several days exploring the continental part of the lake coast line and its underwater space, making a number of personal discoveries and getting to know more about the lake by discussing your suppositions with your fellow-travelers. All in all, this dive site gives food both to mind and soul.
Andrey Bobkov, PDA Instructor | 17/09/09
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