Prokletije – Bjeshket e Namun, summer 2009
Report of WKTJ, Speleoklubu Swietokrzyskie and Speleoklubu Świętokrzyskiego i Akademickiego Klubu Grotołazów (Kraków) from the polish expedition in the Belic massif.
The expedition took place in the period from 19 July to 9 August 2009 (some people began to work a week earlier).
The aim of the expedition was to continue [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Prokletije – Bjeshket e Namuna 2009
September 21, 2009 – 2:54 pm
Polish exploration in Maganik massif
September 17, 2009 – 2:13 pm
From 10 to 26 July 2009 was a exploratory trip organized by members of the AKG in Krakow Maganik massif in Montenegro. It was the consequence of activity in this area started in 2007 and 2008. Exploratory activity was carried out between 13 July and 23 July . In the meantime, the deeper caves found [...]
Dürrkar 2009
September 17, 2009 – 2:12 pm
Report of the caving expedition held by KKTJ Krakow in Dürrkar area (Leoganger Steinberg, Austria) 2009
As a result of our exploration of the Tropical System – Viertel Höhle ,we achieved in two different sequences, respectively vertical depth of -533 and-690m, and reached an aggregate length of about 4.5 km. In addition to this system,we also [...]
Cave dig unearths important finds
September 16, 2009 – 8:19 am
Teeth and bones from late Ice Age animals, including hyenas, deer and woolly rhinos, have been discovered by archaeologists at a cave in Devon.
original here
In Cave Digital Surveying
September 16, 2009 – 8:19 am
Ther is an interesting article describing the way of digital cave surveying, and the equipement needed for that. There is also a forum, where people are discussing about this serious topics.
forum here
the article, and the suggested equipement for digital cave surveying
Polish cavers in Toros (Turkey)
September 15, 2009 – 9:00 am
Between 12-31 July, 2009 took place the expedition of WKGiJ, in the Taurus mountains, Turkey.
The immediate goal was massive Bolkar (High Taurus) which led the exploratory activity. During this year’s activities, they discovered 20 new caves to a length of 300 and a depth of 90 meters, including some in marble. The largest of them [...]
ICCC expedition photos from Slovenia
September 15, 2009 – 8:21 am
You can find a bunch of beautifoul photos & some other stuff from the expedition of Imperial College Caving Club on the Migovec Plateau, Slovenia. They f ound around one kilometre of cave, most of it in Sistema Vrtnarija, at depths from 250-550m. The most stunning find of the year was the enormous 81m Happy [...]
How to put cave surveys on Google Earth
September 15, 2009 – 8:18 am
An interesting article by Bill Chadwick, about how to put cave surveys on Google Earth API, here. The page demonstrates how to use Microsoft Research’s (MSR) MapCruncher to generate custom tile sets from cave surveys for use by the Google Map API.
Hungarian expedition in Crna Gora
September 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
The yearly expedition of the hungarian speleological society to Montenegro had the following results: In two weeks of august, 2,5km of new passages were discovered. Njegos cave is now 4,5km (around -400m), a bypass of the final sump was found, leading to a large phreatic gallery with open leads left for next camp. “Nyúl-lika” cave [...]
Killer birds bite off bat’s heads
September 14, 2009 – 8:20 am
Péter Estók of the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany, first saw a bat being captured by a tit in a Hungarian cave in 1996. Ten years later, he and fellow bat ecologist Björn Siemers recorded 18 examples of pipistrelle bat predation by great tits, over the course of two winters in the same cave in the [...]