Romania – Lakes, reservoirs & locks
Inland diving in Romania is small-scale and mostly club-based. Around Bucharest, dive schools train in a flooded quarry and in the abandoned locks of the unfinished Danube–Bucharest canal at Fălăstoaca and Budești. In the Apuseni Mountains the Catholic church of the village drowned by the Beliș-Fântânele reservoir lies at 27–30 m, and an adventure organiser takes divers to the big mountain reservoirs of Vidraru, Siriu and Izvorul Muntelui in summer. Many famous Romanian lakes are not dive sites: swimming in the volcanic crater lake Sfânta Ana has been banned since 2018, and we found no evidence of recreational diving in the salt lakes of Turda, Ocna Sibiului or Sovata. Data here are thin: most sites are listed by a single operator and lack published depths or entry points.