Homuty
1. NIZHNIE KHOMUTY
Anchorage is on the south from the cape. Stony slope covered with sponges. Sculpins, gammaruses, may be grayling.
2. SREDNIE KHOMUTY
Anchorage is on the south from the cape. Stony slope covered with sponges. Sculpins, gammaruses, may be grayling.
3. VERKHNIE KHOMUTY
The dive site is located to the south from Cape Verkhniye Khomuty. White sand bottom of shallow waters of the offshore area are covered in stones with sponges on them, which looks especially nice in sunny weather. A dive boat can be anchored here (depth - 6-10 meters). The northern side of the offshore area finishes with a benchy drop off of dark rocks. The transition area from the offshore zone to the drop off is inclined taking one from the depth of 6 to 40 meters.
4. SOTY (COMBS)
A dive boat is anchored in the shallow waters of the offshore area to the north from Cape Sredniye Khomuty. A steep stone inclination with very specific geological structure: the southern part of the dive site is of black schistse stones. The middle part of the dive site is of yellowish-white calc-silicate marble that looks like once boiling lava that got cold and has a lot of small caverns in its body. These unusual rock formations finish with a canyon in the southern part of the dive site. The opposite part of the canyon is of sand and stone. The shallow waters of the offshore area are very picturesque - white sand intermingled with calc-silicate marble rocks with caverns, covered in sponges.
Bullheads, Lake Baikal shrimps, graylings.
If one goes further away from the inclination, deep dives are possible.
5. BAKLANY KAMEN (GANNET ROCK)
A small island 100 meters away from the shore. A dive boat is anchored anywhere but from the side overlooking the shore. The group of divers moves around the island at the depth of 4-10 meters. Huge rocks, sponges, many bullhead species. In the shoreline opposite the island there are many grottos.
6. KRASNY YAR
A place on the way from Khomuty to Birkhin dive sites.
A dive boat is anchored opposite the memorial to crew members of steamboat Shokalsky, which sank with the crew here. The steamboat lies at the depth of 700 meters and was explored in 1988 by a deep submergence vehicle Pisces. A benchy low angle inclination covered in sponges. Bullheads, Lake Baikal shrimps.
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