Francis Spinoy, a Belgian caver who was active in the Swiss Sieben-Hengste network since 1970, is currently producing some nice Powerpoint presentations, mostly from its old slides (which were scanned at least). The text is in french… but an image is an image, isn’t it ?
The first one has just been released, and you can [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Retro pictures from Sieben-Hengste exploration
October 20, 2009 – 9:49 am
MATKA VRELO (Macedonia) – August 2009
October 19, 2009 – 9:21 am
You can read about the dive of Luigi Casati, who reached -190m at 574m from the entrance in Matka Vrelo spring cave, Macedonia. The dive duration was 173 min. With videos and pictures!
see more info here
ASPEG Expo to Southeast Turkey
October 16, 2009 – 10:51 am
Below you will find the summary of the summer expedition that took place in southeast of Turkey with 12 caves discovered which 3 of them mapped and one of them has a potential to go deep as far as -700-800 m.
In July 2009, ASPEG has organised a trip to southeast of Turkey where only MTA [...]
Olhos de Água do Alviela
October 15, 2009 – 9:22 am
Here you can read about the recent cave diving record in Portugal, which extended Olhos de Água do Alviela cave to the depth of -134m (underwater!!!)
Two new caves in Sierra de Tendeñera
October 15, 2009 – 9:21 am
The two new cave was discovered in Pyrenees, Spain. They are ” Grallera of Batxessanga” -452 m deep and “Fita dels Avenc of lichens”, which is -428m. The entrance of the two caves was known for six years, but the exploration of them happened just this year. The entrances are not far away from Sistema [...]
Optymystycheskaya – 40 years of exploration
October 14, 2009 – 10:03 am
Here you can find an article about the 40 years of exploration in the third longest cave in Earth, Optymystycheskaya. The cave can be found in Podolia, Ukraine, and is 232km long, formed in gypsum. You can also find some pictures about the anniversary celebration.
BULGARIA – Goluboitza cave diving expedition – 2009
October 13, 2009 – 8:22 am
From 13 to 19 September 2009 in the region of the upper flow of the river
Arda , Rhodope Mt., Central part of South Bulgaria took place the serial
cave diving expedition in this area – ”Goluboitza-2009”. The event was
organized by Bulgarian Federation of Speleology and hosted by Speleo club
“Mursalitza” – Smolyan. 13 September the leader of [...]
The fifth time in Arabika
October 12, 2009 – 8:42 am
Polish caving club, Sekcji Grotołazów Wrocław had their fifth consecutive expedition in Arabika massif, Caucasus. In PL-1 cave, they reached -490m depth. The depth was -330m in previvious year in this cave, and they surpassed this limit with a digging, which was conducted from an underground camp. Now the size of the cave started growing, [...]
New survey of Torca del valle Agua VA-1
October 9, 2009 – 8:43 am
Here you can find the updated survey of VA-1, in Picos de Europa, which have been pushed to -923m this summer by the expedition organized by Zapespeleo.
Print Salon 2009 ICS
October 9, 2009 – 8:37 am
Here you can find the winner pictures from the photo contest of the international congress of speleology, which was hed in Texas this summer.