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Black Sea Wreck Diving Center

Dive Centre Center (English)

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Company description The diving sites near Russalka and Varna offer wonderful opportunities for special interest and recreational dives!
The wealth of sea plants, fish, caves and wrecks from different epochs make Russalka one of the most decorated diving destinations on the Black Sea Coast.
Only here you can explore an unexplored cave or a shipwreck yourself and enjoy the adventure spirit of a treasure hunt!
Special Tour Packages:
Available for families, special interest divers, senior citizens, beginners and experts.
Special Dives:
2-tank all day excursions on famous shipwrecks; Shore diving - 24 hours a day; Night, Boat and Cave dives - operated upon request. Tailor made programs upon request.
Airfill Capacity/Rental Equipment:
15 tanks/2 compressors. 12 full sets of dive gear available for rental. Locked quest equipment storage is provided.
Classroom/Meeting Facilities:
Regular classroom with audio-visual equipment is available.
Instruction Offered:
Snorkeling, Open water to Assistant Instructor, and 6 specialty courses including Wreck diving, Cave diving and Underwater photography. Certifications available through CMAS and PADI in English, German and Russian /French upon request/. Staff includes 3 instructors and 2 dive-masters.
In 2006, in order to answer the great demands of the increasing development of the wreck diving in the Black Sea region, Black Sea Wreck Diving Center and Saint Elias Resort – Varna, in close cooperation with the Bulgarian National Association of Underwater Activity and the Institute of Oceanology, set up a new Diving Center.
Wreck Diving:
Hundreds of wrecks, stone and metal anchors, cannons, amphorae and many other traces from all navigational periods of human history, many still waiting to be discovered, are strewn along the North Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
Summer 2006 is the fifth season we offer our most successful special Program for wreck diving, and the first in which we offer diving to some of the most interesting wrecks in a submarine!««see Programs»»
This years Program combines two main themes: Black Sea Navigation Heritage and World War II Battleships.
Black Sea Navigation Heritage:
•17th -18th century wooden sailing battleship - 4-5m depth, nice spot for underwater photography. .
•``Mopang`` - metal ship, 50 m length, 33 m depth, main deck 5-6 m above the bottom, well preserved, divers can penetrate into it.
•A group of metal wrecks at 12m depth, nice spot for underwater photography.
•Scattered fragments of two or probably three wooden sailing battleships of different epochs, 4-9m depth.
•Metal cargo steamer of an unknown origin - 7-12m depth, nice spot for underwater photography.
•Kostas - Greek cargo ship, 7 - 12m depth, divers can penetrate into it.
•Tanker Pelesh at 18m depth - very well preserved, divers can penetrate into it.
•Metal cargo ship at 45m depth - very well preserved, divers can penetrate into it.
World War II Battleships:
•Russian WW II submarine type ST- 24 m depth, covered with mussels.
•WW II minelayer ``Karol``: 18m depth, hit one of its own mines and sank, well preserved, covered with mussels, main deck 4 -5 m above the bottom, divers can penetrate into it.
•Russian WW II submarine type ST- 33 m depth, very well preserved, covered with mussels.
•A group of 2 WW II German torpedos-boats- 18m depth, well preserved, covered with mussels.
•WW II German battle ship- 18m depth, unsuccessful attempt to be recovered was made in 1947.
•НWW II German torpedo-boat- 20m depth, covered with mussels.
•WW II German landing craft ship- 18m depth, covered with mussels.
•WW II Russian submarine, still not visited by divers, at 60m depth. You can download a short film about this submarine from our web site
•WW II Russian submarine type ST, still not visited by divers, at 59m depth.
Location description: The underwater and land archaeological excavations along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast showed that the region has been inhabited since the middle of the Stone Age (5500-5300 BC). A lot of different cultures, tribes, ethnic groups, peoples and states have developed in this part of Southeast Europe for more than seven millennia. The results from combined underwater and ground archaeological excavations come to explain a range of problems concerning the most ancient navigational periods of human history and even go back to the Great Flood and Noah`s Ark, the Thracian past, the periods of Greece and Rome and the creation of the Bulgarian State. The most recent expedition, carried out by Professor Ballard`s team and a group of scientists from the Bulgarian Institute of Oceanology in August 2002, has come up with amazing results, discovering one of the oldest and best preserved wooden ships carrying a cargo of amphorae along with other things.
You can visit with us this ancient Greek cargo ship on board the research submarine vessel of the Institute of Oceanology Varna!
These intensive and dramatic historical periods have left us a heritage of numerous underwater archaeological traces - stone and metal anchors, amphorae, unique architecture, precious finds, burial constructions and cemeteries, sunken sea ports and wrecks.
One of the many important events, that took place during World War II along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, was the self-destruction of the German Black Sea Fleet. At that time it included some Italian, Romanian, Croatian and Hungarian battleships as well. At the beginning of 1944 their total number was 350, of which: battle cruiser - 1; destroyers - 4; minelayers - 3; torpedo-boats -28; submarines - 14; minesweepers - 31; landing crafts - 102 and many other servicing ships and boats. Part of them - 101, were sunken or abandoned by their crews along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and along with four Russian World War II submarines, sank in battles make wonderful wreck diving sites!
Cave Diving:
•South of Shabla - a strip of coast line very rich in caves, most of them unexplored
•Tiulenovo - cave diving in the Monk seal`s cave, one of the most picturesque caves on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast - 108m deep in the shore.
•The Bats` Den - a cave with open-air entrance and siphons, not very big, an exciting diving site.
Kamen Briag- a strip of coast line very rich in caves, most of them unexplored.
Extras:
*Fossilized wood - 18m depth, puts forward a lot of questions when, how and why did it happen?
*Shore/Small-boat/Night Diving - the rocky coast of HV Russalka, with its sheltered small bays, transparent waters, caves, many reefs and wealth of plants and fish, gives wonderful opportunity for Snorkeling, Special Interest and Recreational Diving!
Black Sea Biodiversity:
The Black Sea Marine Reserve Kaliakra - bordering HV Russalka, here divers can observe many Black Sea flora and fauna species in their natural habitats.

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A diving center in Rusalka resort offers wreck diving, cave diving and diving courses.tel/fax:

Contact information:
Phone: (+359) 5743.2027
Mobile: (+359) 0888/461 182
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Bulgaria
Spoken language(s): English,Russian,Dutch
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT + 2 Athens, Kiev, Minsk, Tallin
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