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Adrian Bîlbă is a scientist and General Manager at the Dolphinarium in Constanta "The mud is harvested from the deep areas of the lake "The area where the therapeutic mud is harvested takes several years for the mineralisation process so it's not the case that it's influenced by a certain summer Experts are pointing their fingers to global warming as the main culprit Director of Care Servies at Techirghiol Balneary Cure Centre said that the quality and the quantity of the mud won't be affected "Following the clinical examinations that the attending physicians perform we haven't noticed that the mud therapy hasn't had the expected result on our patients," she stated Lake Techirghiol stretches over a 10-square kilometre area and its maximum depth is 9 metres in open waters More than 800 players are expected to participate in the traditional chess festivals in Romania “FISCA” XX edition is the first tournament in a row starting from 24th June to 3rd July in Cap Aurora resort followed by “Trofeul Litoralului” XXVI edition from 27th June to 7th July in Eforie Nord resort and finally the XXV edition of the “Trofeul Techirghiol” which will take place 7 – 14 July Youth Swiss tournaments for various age categories The organizers provided various accommodation options at very attractive prices The Romanian Black Sea resorts stretch from the Danube Delta in the north down to the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the south The most important resort is Mamaia, situated north of the city of Constanta, where the 17th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2016 was held recently Some resorts have names from Roman and Greek mythology More information about the tournaments below: FISCA 2016 Trofeul Litoralului Trofeul Techirghiol This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.