Bay of Puck
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Bay of Puck or Puck Bay (Polish: Zatoka Pucka) is a shallow western part of the Bay of Gdańsk in the southern Baltic Sea, off the shores of Polish land of Gdańsk Pomerania. It is separated from the open sea by the Hel Peninsula.
Average depth is 2-6 metres and there is also a shallow sand-bank from Rewa Cape to Kuźnica in the middle of Hel Peninsula. The bay is available only for small fishing boats and yachts, which have to stick to the strict deeper routes.
Main ports are: Puck, Jastarnia and Hel.
There are deposits of potassium salt below the Bay of Puck.