Article about hydrostatic pressure

Diver dies by hydrostatic pressure

 

Kabardino-Balkaria/2012 During more than 40 years scientists have tried to find an answer to mysterious lake without bottom. Located in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, her unattainable found, has been a challenge for many divers. The blue lake is a unique monument of nature it is the second deepest lake of the earth. It a deep well with steps walls formed by layers of limestone and in its waters there´s no fish since they do not withstand hydrostatic pressure. Multitude of legends surrounds her existence but what really worries to the scientific community international divers is your fund or, for some, the lack of it, which to date nobody has already reached up.

Diver in the Blue Lake

In 2012 Martin Robson and Andreí Rodionov divers hoped to reach the deepest place of the black lake, but the end of the expedition was tragic since Rodionov Russian died due to break in his team of breath as a result of hydrostatic pressure. After that, the British Robson decided to continue the expedition in his honor, but after spending 9 hours in the sea died. There is a possibility that 258 meters deep to the bottom of the lake but a fold, is not what would make this body of water in the deepest lake in the world with this characteristics. Research is ongoing.

Martin Robson