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From: Brit in Intensive Care After Record Dive in Russia | Russia | RIA Novosti
More on the lake and the project here: Blue Lake Project « TecRec Blog
British diver Martin Robson has been placed in intensive care after making a record 209-meter dive in Blue Lake in Russias North Caucasus on Thursday, the lake's diving center said.
At 258 meters in depth, Blue Lake is considered to be the third largest lake with only underwater tributaries in the world and the second largest in Europe. An international project to explore the depths of the lake is currently underway.
The record immersion continued for about nine hours. Robson successfully resurfaced from a depth of 209 meters but later became ill and was taken to the republics hospital in Nalchik, a spokesman for the diving center said.
One member of Robsons support team, Russian diver Andrei Rodionov, 39, died on January 13 during one of the first dives.
Researchers believe there is a very deep cave system in the lake.
One of the project objectives is to locate, penetrate and explore this cave system, and to prove that Blue Lake is the deepest karst spring in the world.
More on the lake and the project here: Blue Lake Project « TecRec Blog