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Jinn’s Jar – NG Reportage on Blue Lake Story

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National Geographic Russia Magazine has published a big article about Blue lake Awareness Project and added a photo with Victor and his photo equipment to the editor-in chief’s word to the reader:

Jinn’s Jar

Residents relate the story of a 115-year old man, a member of WWI’s legendary ‘Wild Division’ cavalry, who said the elders of his day called the lake ‘Jinn’s Jar’, referring to powerful, demon-like spirits said to live in vessels shaped like lamps or jars and also because the lake’s shape resembled an inverted jar or lamp with narrowing neck downwards to a lip at its bottom.

To read the Blue lake piece in the web click here

Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder

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A photo by Viktor Lyagushkin with Natalie Avseenko as a cover for a book.

A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there

It’s the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and new commercial giant Unilever has a stranglehold on the industry. The territorial race for Antarctica is also in full swing, with Sir Douglas Mawson voyaging on Discovery to reinforce British-Australian interests and pre-empt Norwegian claims. Amelia Earhart is blazing a trail (on land and in the air) for intrepid women, but although women have been applying to join Antarctic expeditions for more than 20 years, none have been accepted.

Against this backdrop, the resupply vessel Thorshavn sets sail from Cape Town, carrying the Norwegian whaling magnate Lars Christensen and fuel for his fleet of factory ships, which are hunting whales through the uncharted wild waters of the Southern Ocean to the very edge of the Antarctic ice.

The story of this shot is here

To know more about the book and/or order it

Why swans have long necks…

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Daily SwanThese eye-popping underwater pictures of swans stretching for their food show just why swans have such beautifully long necks.

By putting their long necks to good use by ducking underwater and reaching for food at the bottom of a lake these mute swans are showing not just their looks – but also how well adapted they are.

To read the whole story in DailyMail

Blue Lake Story in Asian Diver

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blue lake tory in asian diverThe Secret of The Blue Lake

“The newest of technologies gave us an opportunity to measure the depth and define the origins of the lake. What we can say in the most simple of terms is that it is really very deep. Its depth is about 260 metres, making it the second deepest karst lake in the world. Its waters are crystal clear and constantly cold. The temperature of the water in the lake is a steady 9°C. What was also discovered is that there is a river coming out of the lake
and no spring coming in.
According to scientists, there is an underwater cave or caves in the lake where the water comes in from. But where the caves are located at exactly can only be imagined. The exploration of the lake by echo locators and robots was not successful – the information gathered was not good enough and data condition for the task assigned to these technologies was grossly insufficient.
Therefore, in a place where technology cannot function well enough, ironically, only Man will be able to do the task sans the aid of advanced machines. So as the story goes, only a human will now be able to do the primary inspection of the walls, take samples of the water at various extents, collect rock samples from certain depths and take important measurements deep under the water.
That man, who will take samples and make the necessary exploration, will also go deeper than any other diver has gone. This is Martin Robson.”