A large ditch is formed in Lake Balaton, it may be dangerous
Known from the old song of Dolly Roll, the Balaton Winds, which comes out of the waves, does not exist, but a much larger and truly dangerous giant will fall in our favorite lake. About 60 kilometers long, completely invisible, and almost every summer he takes his victims on the southern coast, between Balatonkeresztúr and Balatonvilágos.
The ditch is called a milling line from the coast to 500-1000 meters, where the water suddenly deepens like in a mining room, and where the soil disappears from underneath the bathroom. Created by nature, including the northwestern wind because of the wavy from the north coast to the south, the riverbed thus moves the riverbed. Where the dangerous ditch is stretching, it can only be guessed at a strong wave: the water is where the milling line extends.
Our graphics show where the gigantic ditch is called a milling line in Lake Balaton, and why is it dangerous to careless beachers / graphics: Tamás Séra
From now on, however, you do not have to wait for the storm, and can be viewed at any time on a digital map made by Roland Szakter, a geodetic and GIS officer of the Balaton Water Branch of the Central Transdanubian Water Directorate. In the image combined with satellite imagery, the milling line is closest to the coast at Siófok, Balatonboglár and Balatonmária Bürdő, and the threat to bathers is temporarily eliminated at Szántód.
In any case You can also die in Lake Balaton.
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– Those who can’t swim well enough and move away from the coast with mattresses, boats, and water bikes. In high heat, it can be seductive for bathers to find at least chest water. But one can suddenly drift beyond the milling line, that is, the ditch, and whoever has come down, suddenly finds himself in deep water, panicking, and it’s ready. Or just when the boat drifts into a shallower part while jumping in water, where a header can have a tragic consequence Bagyó listed the underground sources.
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The safest is that only the very well -swims venture over the buoys. But small children should not be left unattended even before the buoys. While the southern coast is often barely rolled up for hundreds of meters, the riverbed is not even, the water depth alternates, and a low child can suddenly easily cover adults to the waist.
– The solution is swimmer or vest, which is much cheaper even in expensive beach shops than the coffin The expert warns.
