Greeting from Hungary \o/

[Darton]

Hello everyone,

I'm not really new here, but since I lost my previous account, it's polite to introduce again, and pick up the pace.

I started diving in '00s for a good 5-6ish yrs, then life came, and with it a huge gap in my resume.
In my younger years I wanted to be a DM or a Scuba diving/rescue specialist at the fire dep. but life took me on another route.
I returned to diving in 2017, and since that I'm diving every puddle which I can (because my country is not a dive paradise to put it mildly) but now only on recreational level.

The biggest impact on my dive career was of course Cousteau, a hungarian guy called Béla Násfay, and my father. He was a pioneer in my country (not the famous kind, but nonetheless pioneer), and an industrial diver, so it's in the dna.

I hope I'll meet some of you, even if we are continents apart, but hey, the world gets smaller every day right?

Cheers \m/

 

[Green Frog]

Welcome (back) aboard, Dayton! Hungary has always held a special place in my heart since my first of many visits there in 1993. I never got to do any diving there but always wondered about diving possibilities at Lake Balaton. I visited the research center there on the Northern shore probably twenty years ago and chatted with the director, but never got around to discussing opportunities for scuba. When swimming I was in a fairly crowded part of the South shore so the bottom stayed pretty stirred up, but wonder now whether there would be places with better vis?
Best Regards,
Green Frog

 

[Darton]

Welcome (back) aboard, Dayton! Hungary has always held a special place in my heart since my first of many visits there in 1993. I never got to do any diving there but always wondered about diving possibilities at Lake Balaton. I visited the research center there on the Northern shore probably twenty years ago and chatted with the director, but never got around to discussing opportunities for scuba. When swimming I was in a fairly crowded part of the South shore so the bottom stayed pretty stirred up, but wonder now whether there would be places with better vis?
Best Regards,
Green Frog

It's really a lovely country if you can set aside any bad overtone.
Lake Balaton is really for the die hard divers, since the visual distance is basically zero, there are some ww2 wrecks, and there's the Tihany trench, which is 11m deep, but megalodons are not living there tho.
But we have a famous cave, called Molnár János cave and it have a beautiful surface lake

Photo credit: mjlake.hu

 

[Green Frog]

Thanks for the informative response. I went to Hungary (mostly Budapest) about 8-10 times between 1993 and 2013 and have nothing but good memories of all of my time there. At this stage in life I’m not likely to do much traveling now but I’m still (and will always be) a lover of all things Hungarian.
Best regards,
Froggie