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