Day 3 . Cars rush to the north of the island and soon reach the bank of the baikal .
第三天驱车去了岛屿的北部，并很快到达了贝加尔湖湖畔。
Putin joined the team of scientists studying gas hydrates and natural seepage of crude oil on the bottom of baikal on saturday .
在周六与普京随行的是一队科学家，他们负责研究天然气水合物，以及贝加尔湖湖底原油的自然渗漏问题。
Though the road to the baikal is well acquainted to them , a navigator and a camera already adorn the windshield .
尽管去贝加尔湖的路已经很熟悉，挡风玻璃上还是配备了摄像机与导航。
So huge is baikal that it reportedly takes an average of 330 years for a single water molecule to flow through it , from inlet to outlet .
贝加尔湖如此之大以至于据说一个单个水分子要从入口到出口流过它需要花费330年的时间。
Ugliest , perhaps , among the defilements of baikal 's coastline is a paper mill that discharged pollutants into baikal for years before being closed in 2008 on grounds of ecological protection .
