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New years

New years 02.01.2008 As usually divers have installed a New Year Tree on the bottom of Baikal. Last year baikaltek team has installed the New Year Tree near Old Round Baikal Railway. This year it is Ushkanka – the place between Kadilny Point and Bolshoe Goloustnoe Village.
The action stared 29th of December in the morning with embarkation to dive ship “Valery”. High waves from Kultuk wind was not in the way of the dive on Balck River. Everybody dived: tech divers, recreational divers, and even introdiver – Tanya Khanaeva. After the dive and lunch during the travel to Ushkanka Point the underwater New Year Tree was ready. “Valery” moored to shore just in front of the “diver’s” banya (so many divers went to this banya during different diving trips). Another New Year Tree was prepared on the shore before it got dark. All the team divided on groups and under the guidance of Snegurochka – Burnosova Katya and Santa Claus – Murzin Andrey started New Year dive. All as usually everybody were dressed up and the safety of the dive was ensured by instructors Gennady Misan and Tatyana Oparina (they also had New Year Tree in their arms) and divemasters Slepnev Andrey and Dashkevich Oleg. An underwater cameraman was Igor Khanaev (by the way, it was shown on TV news program). After the dive was a short stand-up party just in the dive deck and then New Year party. Contests, competitions, fireworks – everything was here. The party finished with bath in a banya and swimming in Baikal.
30th of December the ship was in Listvyanka and everyone went home to celebrate New Year in his own way. We spent New Year night on the wild shores of Aya Bay in a company of like-minded persons. Last New Year we met underwater in Listvyanka. Now it was Aya Bay. What will be next year the future will show.

26.01.2021

One can quickly lose the skills. The habit to dive from a boat makes you relax. During the last three years, we haven’t had any deep trimix in Listvyanka. Time to catch up! (Gennadi’s comment: “That’s true. All the deep dives in the last three years were made from the safari boats”). And now, it is December again, the freest time to dive “for yourself”. Be it Covid or not, there is a lot of work in summer, as usual. So, the intensive preparation has begun! (Gennadi’s comment: “The idea is to dive VERY deep!”)


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31.03.2020

The BaikalTek instructors often meet the seals under the ice because they dive often.  A ‘normal’ diver is rarely so lucky. Jean from Switzerland is one of the lucky guys. Though it was his first Olkhon Ice Safari at Lake Baikal, he saw a lot: huge ice shapes, moving ice mass, dancing planaria… and finally, a seal! 


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