Once home to more than 200,000 people, Lion City is now submerged some 30m below the surface of Qian Dao lake in south-west China. I heard about the 1800 year old city back in 2008 while I was living in Shanghai on an 18 month work assignment and the thought of diving it intrigued me. I had stumbled on the local Shanghai diving community quite by accident and was surprised to discover that there are actually several dive shops in the city of over 20m people. But they all seem to exist solely to train expats and then take them on trips outside of China, as there is literally nowhere to dive around the city or along the nearby …
Diving China: The 1800 year old Lion City of Qian Dao LakeRead More