Rummu: The Underwater Prison in Estonia

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

The ruins of the abandoned prison camp outside the small Estonian town of Rummu were once a dreaded stone edifice, but are now a beach attraction. The prison was already established in the 1940s by the Soviet Union. It was built in a convenient location: on the lip of a limestone quarry in which the inmates were forced to toil.

The seemingly impenetrable walls of the prison were not to last forever. When Estonia regained its independence in 1991, the Soviets moved out and many of their institutions fell, including the labor prison at Rummu. Both the prison and the quarry were abandoned in the changeover, but only the quarry needed to be continually pumped clear of water. Without anyone to look after the natural ground water that seeped into the former quarry, it soon filled up with water, creating a new lake with alarming speed. It filled up so fast that many of the mining machines and even some of the buildings ended up getting swallowed whole by the rising waters.

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