To enter the lake, the diver has to climb down a steel ladder for 6 meters or jump down with full kit. The depth of the sinkhole itself varies between 26 meters at the reef, where we do our workup dives, to 90 meters on the deepest point. The legend of the lake being a bottomless pit, connected to other inland lakes and whirlpool swallowing the victims were proven wrong when divers of the Federation measured and mapped the entire lake with remote operated vehicles and sonar. While diving at Lake Otjikoto, the Federation has a small part of the land available for camping. Electricity is available at points to run equipment like fridges and recharge underwater lights etc.
All camping equipment is however the responsibilities of the individual divers.
Security is not a problem, as this is private area, fenced off from the public. There are no currents etc, as this is an isolated lake. As is normal with cave diving is, buoyancy control is extremely important, as the entire bottom of the lake and walls of the overhangs are covered with a fine dust which can change visibility from perfect to zero within seconds. As previously mentioned, the water level is at least 6 meters below the edge of the lake. In addition the divers should at least have some cave diving experience.