Michail Balabanov and his wife Teodora will try to beat the Guness record for deepest diving on September 15 and 20 in the Toroneos bay between Kassandra and Sithonia in the Greek peninsula of Halkidiki. Teodora Balabanova will attempt reaching 231 meters in open sea on September 20. The diving is expected to continue 5 and a half hours. For the purpose the divers will be using 30 bottles of different gas combinations. In her attempt Teodora will be accompanied by her husband Michail. If the diving is successful this would be a second world record for both of them as a couple. The attempt has a referent number and registration for the Guinness World Records. Photo: BTA

The town firemen in Haskovo, southern Bulgaria, made a demonstration for prep-school kids in Nezabravka (the Bulgarian for forget-me-not) kindergarten of how a fire is to be extinguished. The kids were very much impressed and some of them - even frightened! Photo: BTA

During archeological diggings on the early Roman fortress Zaldapa (4-6 century) near the village of Abrit, Dobrich District, experts discovered a bishopric basilica and crypt with it. Archeologists also came upon very rare wall paintings.  Photo: BTA

The first Festival of Water took place in Plovdiv. It features companies working in the sphere of the processing and the purification of water, the Water and Sewerage systems as well companies dealing with instruments and spare parts for those systems. Photo: BTA

Hundreds of stones from the bank of the Danube River by the city of Ruse have been used to create impressive geometrical figures along the water line. No one knows who and why has undertaken that laborious exercise, but the final result is definitely worth it. Photo: BGNES