Lakes: The three biggest natural lakes: Balaton, Lake Velencei, Lake Tisza. There are some artificial lakes (after some mining activity), and a few lakes in caves. Diving activity is not representative in natural lakes. Eg. you need permission to descend in Balaton. Diving in artificial lakes is usually free of charge, but there are a few private lakes, where the owner requires some charge for diving.

Water temperature: Maximum water temperature is about 14-20 degrees Celsius in artificial lakes, 20-26 degrees Celsius in natural lakes.

Visibility: Visibility is usually low: about 2-6 meters. When the water is colder, and there are no bathers in the lakes, the visibility is better.
Bottom of lakes are usually muddy.

Recompression chamber: Recompression chamber can be found in Budapest.

Address: 19. Szanatórium street, Budapest 1121
Pavilio VII.
Hungarian form of address:
1121 Budapest, Szanatórium u. 19.
Országos Orvosi Rehabilitációs Intézet VII. Pavilon.

Medical director of institute:
Phone: +36 (1) 392-0376 (land line)
Mobile: +36 (30) 269-9436

Location: Central Europe, northwest of Romania
Geographic coordinates: 47° 0' N, 20° 0' E
Coastline km: 0 km (landlocked) km
Climate: temperate; cold, cloudy, humid winters; warm summers
Terrain: mostly flat to rolling plains; hills and low mountains on the Slovakian border
Elevation: lowest point: Tisza River 78 m highest point: Kekes 1,014 m
Natural hazards:
Currency: forints (HUF)
Population: 9,930,915 (July 2008 est.)
Languages: Hungarian 93.6%, other or unspecified 6.4% (2001 census)
Capital: Budapest
Divisions: 19 counties (megyek, singular - megye), 23 urban counties (singular - megyei varos), and 1 capital city (fovaros) counties: Bacs-Kiskun, Baranya, Bekes, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen, Csongrad, Fejer, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Hajdu-Bihar, Heves, Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok, Komarom-Esztergom, Nograd, Pest, Somogy, Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg, Tolna, Vas, Veszprem, Zala urban counties: Bekescsaba, Debrecen, Dunaujvaros, Eger, Erd, Gyor, Hodmezovasarhely, Kaposvar, Kecskemet, Miskolc, Nagykanizsa, Nyiregyhaza, Pecs, Salgotarjan, Sopron, Szeged, Szekesfehervar, Szekszard, Szolnok, Szombathely, Tatabanya, Veszprem, Zalaegerszeg capital city: Budapest

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