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.

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

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.

Five italian cavers from Varese, CAI Gallarate made a recon expedition to Mount Kundudo, Etiophia.  The are was not explored for caves until the very recent year! The mountain is 2965m high, and made up of limestone, with a possible depth potential of more than -1000m. original here , youtube video from the area here

Members of italian Speleoclub Garfagnana divived in the bottom of Abisso Chimera, and reached the depth of -15m. The passage filled with water is still going on, another 25m of vertical section is visible going down.The depth of the cave changed to -1028m, with this action, and some resurveying. original here

During the weekend of May 22-23, an international team attempted to dive trough the 3rd siphon of Grotta di Locoli,  which can be found in Sardega. The attempt was successfull, the 3rd siphon, which waited for 22 years to pass, was lead to air filled passage after 1700 m of length, and 90m of depth (!). Quickly, a 4th siphon was found and dived trough, which turned out to be (100m,-10m). Also, a 5th siphon was found, and attempted, but the lead diver turned back after (250m,-34m). Teams who supported the diving: US Cagliaritana, GG Cai Cagliari, GSA Sassari, SC Oliena. You can read more on Scintilena . The expedition was organized by Federazione Speleologica Sarda.

Here, you can read about a traditional yearly cave diving expedition to Mchishta cave in the foot of Caucasus mountains, including underground camping behind the sumps.

Portugal caving group, Colectivo Dueça connected two caves, Olho do Dueça and Soprador do Carvalho, creating a system of more than 5km length, on 24th of April, 2010. The connection was chased for years, with several diving attempts. Finally the connection was made trough very narrow passages in an upper level. more info