SIBERIA: A diver plays with a sponge living under the ice, Lake Baikal. AN ICE-CUBED diver took an extraordinary journey INTO an underwater lump of ice. Pictures taken from the world’s largest lake, Russia’s freezing Lake Baikal, show an adventurous group of ice-divers as they penetrate the ice and jump in for an hour-long dip of a lifetime. Captured at up 50-feet deep under the crust of ice, photographer Andrey Nekrasov, 42, descended from the frozen surface on a quest to record images from the 2,500-foot-deep lake – which has five-times the volume of all five Great Lakes of North America.
SIBERIA: A diver plays with a sponge living under the ice, Lake Baikal. AN ICE-CUBED diver took an extraordinary journey INTO an underwater lump of ice. Pictures taken from the world’s largest lake, Russia’s freezing Lake Baikal, show an adventurous group of ice-divers as they penetrate the ice and jump in for an hour-long dip of a lifetime. Captured at up 50-feet deep under the crust of ice, photographer Andrey Nekrasov, 42, descended from the frozen surface on a quest to record images from the 2,500-foot-deep lake – which has five-times the volume of all five Great Lakes of North America. Andrey travelled over 3,000 miles by plane from his home in Odessa in the Ukraine to the town of Ulan Ude in Siberia. He then journeyed the final eight miles across frozen tundra to reach the lake. Despite surface temperatures of minus 20-degrees Centigrade at this time of year, the 12,200 square-mile Siberian UN-heritage site of Lake Bailkal is a wildlife haven - home to 1,700 species of plants and animals.
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