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Recently returning to Budapest, I made sure booking some intro dives at the famous Molnár János Cave. I already dived there 2 years ago. The cave is formed by thermal water springs in the hills of Buda and actually quite near the city center, you can walk to the parliament building easily along the Danube.

In busy Budapest you don’t image there is this the tranquility of the submersed cave just around the corner.

The cave is filled with very clear and warm water, above 10m 27 degrees Celsius, below 10 meters still 20! And visibility is great. In the cave you’ll enjoy beautifully eroded rock structures, canyons, large and small passages.

Diving in the cave is operated by a very professional, patient and friendly team. Please find their official website here https://mjcave.hu/en/

For a slide show of the pictures go to http://www.wilsampers.nl/slide-show-of-the-photographs-of-the-molnar-janos-cave-in-budapest/

When I started scuba diving, we travelled to Pula in springtime. There I made many dives and started underwater photography with my Motomarine II.

Last summer, I returned. This time to Selçe.

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Last week we had temperatures well below zero in the Netherlands. So we had a short window of time, in which our lakes and canals were finally frozen again.

A few years ago, I have dived underneath a slate of ice, but I never had a go at proper official ice-diving.

So finally at Vinkeveen, sunny, between minus 10 en minus 5, we made two beautiful dives in perfect conditions!

Today we went for our regular Sunday morning dive in ‘t Zuth near Bakel.

This lake is quite old but has been excavated further for its sand. In the middle it drops down to 20 meters, where the hopper has broken through a clay layer of 1 to 3 meters thick. This created some beautiful scenery, which looks like rock faces.

Combined with the good visibility, it always makes for a nice dive.

This morning we stumbled upon some interesting formations. It is more solid than clay (old tree trunks perhaps?) and shavings are dropping off. The colour, once lighted, is a vivid brown orange.

If you know what it is, drop me a mail!

Temperatures are dropping but the fun to be below the surface absolutely not!

Who imagined that we would find such great weather at the end of September? It was a bit dusty and dark, which made making photographs a bit of a challenge. We made 2 dives in the Grevelingen, at Dreischor and at “Het Koepeltje”.

Only 5 km from work, there are a number of artificial lakes, de Kraaijenbergse Plassen. These lakes were excavated to provide sand and gravel for the building industry. Production has stopped just recently and the lakes make a nice recreational spot.

Thus after work we hopped in and met the boss of this patch of water!