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Matka Vrelo – New Record

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:33:31 +0000

Last week the international team lead by Gigi Casati broke the record in Matka Vrelo cave, and reached a depth of -212m underwater! The team consisted of macedonians, belgians, greeks, and italians.You can find more information, and diary of the expedition on their site.

Prokletije update

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:25:28 +0000

The ten italian cavers busy beetween the 3 and the 23 of July in the Prokletije mountains in Montenegro near the Albanian border are back. This year 45 new entrances were discovered, 9 in exploration, 12 must be explored interly and the rest is already surveyed. The Grotta dei Liberi is passed from -313 to -412 with 745 meters lenght. Two new important caves are in exploration with deep pit and enormous rooms: Abisso della Mazza di Delia is a -142m in depth, and 260 meters in lenght Abisso dell’Ombra is more than 200 meters in depth, and 430 meters in lenght. Next year the group will go back to continue the exploration and add new question mark.

Guido Baroncini Turricchia

Centro Hispano-luso de Investigaciones Agrarias (CIALE)
Universidad de Salamanca
coprolog@yahoo.com

IVth Balkan Camp

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:07:15 +0000

The fourth Balkan Camp organized by the Balkan Speleological Union in Padis, Romania, ended with success. Hundred of cavers meeted from nearly all the countries of balkans, with participiants from Hungary and Poland, too. The participants visited some of the most famous caves in the area, and saturday had a giant rescue traning in Cetate Ponorului cave (more than 80 rescuers from more than 5 countries).

Lovettecannas explo

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:40:04 +0000

A group of eight italian cavers explored one kilometer of new gallerie in Grotta Lovettecannas in Sardegna, during a 15 hour sporting trip this weekend. They discovered a gigantic chamber named after their friend who left, Salone MARCO MATTU. They discoverd a pit deeper than 100 meter, which will probably make this cave the deepest one in Sardegna. The exploration stopped because of lack of time, but will continue in the following weeks. Original here.

Grotta dei Liberi -500m

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:30:11 +0000

Preliminary expedition information from Belic, Lepinia site. An Italian interclub expedition with spanish cavers pushed Grotta di Leberi to 500m of depth, from last years -325m limit. Also other prospecting entrances were found. The cave is located in Belic plateau, Prokletije mountains, Montenegro. The international / interclub camp which is located at 2000m asl altitude, will end at 23rd of July.

Recent discoveries in Munizaba

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:19:10 +0000

Here you can read about the latest results from Velebit, Munizaba cave (Croatia). During the eight-day stay in Munižaba between 19-27.6.2010, the PDS Velebit team surveyed 1184 m of new passages (954 m horizontal). The new total length of the cave is 8479 m.

Fall factor 1

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:40:39 +0000

Here you can see the effect of a fall of factor 1 on a rope, when using ascenders.

Caver dolls

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:37:27 +0000

On espeleo you can read a nice article about caver figure dolls from Madelman. It is quite interesting that these dolls exists from the 1970s years, and still manufactured in this decade.

New type of removable anchors

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:39:15 +0000

On espeleo i aigua there is a short article about this new type of remoeable anchor by ClimbTech. It is load is rated 22 Kn, but unfortunately you have to drill at least 0,75 inch’ wide and 3 inch deep (approx 19mm wide and 75mm deep). You can see a fascinating video about testing the gear here and here. Does any one know a smaller version?

The Sixth Iranian Caving Gathering

admin — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:04:46 +0000

The sixth Iranian caving gathering will be hold in Ghar Qalaichi-Bookan-West Azarbaijan-Iran.

8-11th July 2010

Ghar Qalaichi owns the deepest pit in Iran- about 100 m.

The objectives:

1- Coordination among Iranian cavers and the previous members of international expeditions

2- Revision of the caving techniques based on UIS manuals

3- Building cooperation and close friendship among all Iranian cavers to improve caving and speleology in Iran

4- Protecting caves and their environment

5- Training novices and familiarizing them with SRT techniques for safe caving

6- Visiting the deepest pit in Iran-Ghar Qalaichi- and Ghar Doukchi

here you can see the report from the 5th gathering

information from Persian Cavers