Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes: Shallows and grounding

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Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes: how the place works

Flooded opencast mines are young waters: the banks are partly still moving, remains of installations, trees and spoil edges stand below the surface, and the charts are rarely as accurate as on natural lakes. Some areas are closed for safety.

Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes: what breaks there

Grounding on unexpected edges and contact with sunken objects. Add bank slides that can affect pontoons, and closures announced at short notice.

Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes: what this means for your policy

Settle two things: whether the water is named in the policy's cruising range at all, and what applies when an area was officially closed. Damage inside a closed zone is regularly not an insured event.

Cruising range

In the calculator this spot falls under German inland waters

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