First Omani woman to dive in Lake Baikal shares her experience

First Omani woman to dive in Lake Baikal shares her experience

Muscat: An Omani woman has become one of the first Arabs to dive into Lake Baikal, the world's deepest lake.Laila Al Habsi, whose day job sees her working for a mining company in Oman, decided to dive into the lake, which is located in Siberia, when she fell in love with Russia while she was a student in Moscow.“I got so intrigued with the geology and mysticism surrounding the lake,” she said.“My obsession with the lake then grew to the point that I only started drinking Baikal water. The dive was done on the 24th of January 2019, three days after my birthday.“This trip was a birthday gift to myself,” added Al Habsi. “After a year of research and asking around, it became evident that I was in fact not