Črno jezero (Triglav Lakes Valley) (TILOS / no diving)
Diving is prohibited. Črno jezero lies in the first protection zone of Triglav National Park, where the Triglav National Park Act (ZTNP-1, Art. 15(1)(17)) bans swimming, diving and boating on lakes and watercourses, and the park's 2012 letter allows diving only in Lake Bohinj and the Soča at Kršovec. The PAS sheet describes the lowest and most accessible of the Seven Triglav Lakes: about 150 × 80 m, with a flat silty floor at 5–6 m and two sinkholes in the west that narrow at 8.5 m and continue underground. Newts live all over the lake, and a vertical south-west wall shades the water in the afternoon. The entry is kept here for reference only.
Facts
- Region: Slovenia – Lakes, Rivers & Caves
- Area: Julian Alps & Gorenjska (Bohinj, Bled)
- Depth: 0–8.5 m
- Level: advanced
- Current: low
- Type: bay, cave
- Coordinates: 46.29885, 13.79559
- Highlights: alpine lake at about 1300 m, two sinkholes narrowing at 8.5 m, newts (black and green, many sizes), shoal of small fish at the south-east beach, thread worms up to 30 cm on the mud bottom, near-vertical south-west wall, fallen trees, very cold water (3–9 °C)
- Permit: Diving is banned: the lake is in the first protection zone of Triglav National Park, where ZTNP-1 (Uradni list RS 52/2010) Art. 15(1)(17) prohibits swimming, diving and boating on lakes and watercourses. The park's 2012 letter (published by SPZ) names only Lake Bohinj (no consent needed) and the Soča at Kršovec (with consent) as allowed dive places. Any exception would be up to the park manager.
- Issuer / contact: Triglav National Park Public Institute (Javni zavod Triglavski narodni park), Ljubljanska cesta 27, 4260 Bled
- Website: https://www.tnp.si/
- Tips: Do not dive here. For background only: the 2012 sheet describes a nearly two-hour hike with all gear in a backpack from the paid car park at Dom Savica (almost 700 m of ascent on a secured path over Komarča, no pack animals, no helicopter landing spot), small 5–7 l cylinders, stones for weight, about 1 bar total pressure only at 1.5 m depth because of altitude, and water of 9 °C at the surface and 3 °C at the bottom. The sheet itself already noted that the park forbids diving without special permission.