Blue Lake is a beautiful karst spring which is located in Kabardino-Balkaria in the Caucasian mountains in the South of Russia. These photos had been captured during our Blue Lake Awareness Project.
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- The diver takes samples of algae and explores the walls
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- Legend tells us about a young girl who had drowned herself because of unhappy love and became the spirit of the lake.
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- Diving under the stars
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- Old tower in the village near the lake. Many years ago local lords had built the towers as a symbol of their nobleness
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- Balkaria
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- Cherek Gorge
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- Martin Robson and part of expedition equipment near the dive center door
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- Martin Robson prepares his rebreather for the dive
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- Martin Robson talks to TV journalists
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- Night Dive
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- The tree had fallen down into the lake but still standing straight, as if it still grows
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- Diver Igor Galaida surveys big rock on the lake slope. In a few days habitat will be anchored to this rock.
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- Roman Prokhorov finishs the assembly of habitat before its immersion.
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- A local man Eduard Khuazhev (also he is Blue Lake dive center manager) in a national dress
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- A local woman Anzhella Kucherenko in a national dress
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- It is possible that the water Teiri (spirit) also looks at us from under the water, and our life seems to him such as at this photo.
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- Diver inspects the lakeshore
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- water washed away the roots of a tree. One day it will fall into the lake
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- Underwater Forest
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- Diver takes samples of silt and algae
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- Support diver with all his equipment on his way down to meet Martin
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- Support divers meet Martin on his deep deco stop
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- Martin sits in habitat on the longest decostop. Support divers are near the station and ready to help him.
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- Support diver Sergey Gorpinyuk hurries for meeting with Martin Robson, to deliver to the required gas cylinders.
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- Sunset on the Blue Lake
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- High in the Caucasus Mountains
