From december 6 to 8, 2009, there was a big expedition in Bueno Fonteno cave, two cave divers attempted to dive trough the final sump of the cave. There was 50 people from local caving clubs aiding them to transport the material to the bottom of the cave (-451m, 15km). More info at Scintilena.
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Karst resourgences of Western Caucasus
November 27, 2009 – 4:24 pm
Between 21.08.2009 and 13.09.2009 a cave diving expedition was acting in the Western Caucasus, it was lead by Yuri Evdokimov. The core of the expedition was a team of nine people. The aim of the expedition was to find the karst sprigs mentioned in literature, find the approach to them, and dive into them if [...]
Expedition Pozo Azul 2009
August 6, 2009 – 2:51 am
The exploration work was focused on the “2nd Sump”, where in May last year the end of the line was left at 4.020m /-41m from 2nd sump base by the german divers Reinhard Buchaly and Markus Schieritz.
This 2009 expedition had three exploration pushes. The first one, on July 17, by cave divers John Volanthen (CDG) [...]
Kacna Jama 2009
August 6, 2009 – 2:16 am
An international expedition of 31 czech and 9 hungarian cavers discovered approximately 1km of new passage in Kacna Jama, Slovenia. The new parts were discovered by diving in the final part of the cave, which was a quite complicated task, because the materials had to be transported trough the 200m deep entrance pitch, and after [...]