Hazard spot
Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes: Shallows and grounding
Lusatian and Leipzig mining lakes: Young lakes with unsurveyed areas, remains of structures and edges below the surface. What looks clear on the chart is not always clear.
- Cause
- Shallows and grounding
- Main season
- all year
- Position
- 51° 25,2' N 013° 36,0' E
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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.
Read this in full: A grounding is not a small claimCruising range
This spot lies in the cruising range the calculator lists under this step: German inland waters
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And what applies right now?
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