First of all you have to look at the map of Poland.
#1. Baltic Sea.
On Polish teritorial and ecnomical waters are the biggest marine tragedies ever happen - Steuben, Goya, Gustloff. So to make the long story short wreck, wreck and once more wrecks.
The list of them can be found here:
http://www.balticwrecks.com/en/alfab.html
#2. Mazurian Lakes.
This area is called "Land of thousand lakes". But in fact there is more than thousand. I think it's one of the most beautfiful places in the world. Lakes are the result of glacier and some of the forests are hundreds years old. The whole area is in fact forest and lakes. In some of them quite a lot of fishes and crabfish. Beautiful uw meadows - sometimes they look a bit like LA kelp (judging from photos of kelp).
#3. Lakes and again Baltic Sea with the wreck of Hevelius - Polish ferry that sank with casualties 10 or 15 yeras ago.
#4. Lakes in what we call "Kaschubian Switzerland" because it remind Switzerland.
#5. Lakes - don't know this area very well (from diving point of view)
#6. Quarries - quite a few of them
#7. Quarries and caves
#8. The deepest lake in Poland (more than 100 meters). This is where Georgitis did Fundies courses.
#9. Quarries and lakes
#10. Caves and quarries.
Conditions.
Polish waters are rather cold. During the summer lakes above thermocline have something around 18 - 20 Centigrades but below thermocline (usually it's 6- 7 meters) temperature drops to 3-4 Centigrades. Visibility depends on water - if the lake is more poluted it's worse. Sometimes it's only 1 - 1.5 meters and dark. During the winter all lakes are coverd with ice and these are perfect conditions for ice diving.
Quarries are better - warmer and with better vis.
Baltic Sea - depends. Sometimes the vis is around 20 meters sometimes it's 4 meters or less. Sea is cold and there are currents. What is most dangerous are fishermen nets which are almost everywhere.
So as you can see we have plenty of places to dive. My major problem is that there is nothing really around Warsaw - the nearest are Mazurian Lakes and it's around 200 kilometers away.
Mania
#1. Baltic Sea.
On Polish teritorial and ecnomical waters are the biggest marine tragedies ever happen - Steuben, Goya, Gustloff. So to make the long story short wreck, wreck and once more wrecks.
The list of them can be found here:
http://www.balticwrecks.com/en/alfab.html
#2. Mazurian Lakes.
This area is called "Land of thousand lakes". But in fact there is more than thousand. I think it's one of the most beautfiful places in the world. Lakes are the result of glacier and some of the forests are hundreds years old. The whole area is in fact forest and lakes. In some of them quite a lot of fishes and crabfish. Beautiful uw meadows - sometimes they look a bit like LA kelp (judging from photos of kelp).
#3. Lakes and again Baltic Sea with the wreck of Hevelius - Polish ferry that sank with casualties 10 or 15 yeras ago.
#4. Lakes in what we call "Kaschubian Switzerland" because it remind Switzerland.
#5. Lakes - don't know this area very well (from diving point of view)
#6. Quarries - quite a few of them
#7. Quarries and caves
#8. The deepest lake in Poland (more than 100 meters). This is where Georgitis did Fundies courses.
#9. Quarries and lakes
#10. Caves and quarries.
Conditions.
Polish waters are rather cold. During the summer lakes above thermocline have something around 18 - 20 Centigrades but below thermocline (usually it's 6- 7 meters) temperature drops to 3-4 Centigrades. Visibility depends on water - if the lake is more poluted it's worse. Sometimes it's only 1 - 1.5 meters and dark. During the winter all lakes are coverd with ice and these are perfect conditions for ice diving.
Quarries are better - warmer and with better vis.
Baltic Sea - depends. Sometimes the vis is around 20 meters sometimes it's 4 meters or less. Sea is cold and there are currents. What is most dangerous are fishermen nets which are almost everywhere.
So as you can see we have plenty of places to dive. My major problem is that there is nothing really around Warsaw - the nearest are Mazurian Lakes and it's around 200 kilometers away.
Mania
