We have always heard about Cassis, but could not really believe that cave diving is possible there. Nevertheless we went with Manuel, Tobias, Steffen and Wilke. We tried to collect as much information as possible in advance, but we had to realize that the entrance to the cave system can't be found by itself... Sometimes you need luck.
In this sense,
Your Cavebase
Team: Chris, Danny, Darko, Tobi und Wilke
Again we went to the Gouron. This time we did the rest of the work in a smaller team. We divided into two teams and within 260' and 300' dive time respectively we checked the already laid line and optimized it in the entrance area. Due to the very strong debris in the past months, the line had actually come loose on the front 100m! Unbelievable what forces are at work here from time to time.
We are now in good spirits that the line is also optimally laid in the front part and thus in the future a tidy and clean line guidance should finally make diving at this cave a bit safer.
In this sense,
Your Cavebase
Team Cavebase presented itself on the two weekends of January 18 - 20 and 25 - 27 at the Boot in Düsseldorf. On both weekends we could have many nice conversations. Very nice was the range of the audience, from interested beginners to old hands, everything was represented. Especially to mention was a visit of Micha Waldbrenner from EKPP with whom we could talk about a beautiful cave in the French Herault.
We were also able to intensify our contact with DAN. This was especially important to us, because our projects often break through the typical framework of recreational diving. It is always reassuring to know that you have a reliable partner on your side.
A special thanks goes to Atomic Aquatics, who have been hosting us free of charge at their booth for years. We are already looking forward to the Boot 2014, who did not have the opportunity to meet us this year, will surely have the chance again next year...
In this sense,
Your Cavebase
Last weekend (2.2.2013) the Pressure Chamber Center Wiesbaden celebrated its 15th anniversary. To celebrate this occasion in a fitting manner, the center organized a series of lectures around the topic of hyperbaric medicine. The list of topics covered topics such as: Latest HBO guidelines, new technical achievements, treatment of wounds and of course the topic of diving.
Cavebase, in this case represented by Tibor Czuppon and myself also got a time slot of 45min. Our topic was "Technical diving at the limit". Tibor explained the projects before my membership and explained to the audience which logistic effort is connected with explorations - to that he explained very vividly how Cavebase plans the different emergency situations and prepares in the best possible way for accidents of all kinds. I took over the part "Report from Serbia".
We tried to present our projects and cave diving as vividly as possible. The audience, consisting of doctors, professors, representatives from the offshore sector, fire department, GTÜM, representatives of diving associations and generally interested people followed our explanations very eagerly. Small film sequences of the habitat and beautiful photos from the different cave systems rounded off the positive picture on the subject of "cave diving".
In this sense,
Your Cavebase
To say it in advance- the Gouron really didn't make it easy for us!
This really beautiful cave pours after heavy rainfall or snowmelt so much that you don't even need to go there to dive it. Chris Sandrini (DIR- CH) told us every year anew that the previously laid line is destroyed again at the latest in spring and has to be patched or better renewed in countless places.
We then asked ourselves which possibilities there could be to install a stable line here...... From Friday the 23rd to Sunday the 25th of November 2012 we met on site with the DIR- CH to install the line in the Gouron according to a laying method, as caving groups sometimes use. (http://www.swiss-cave-diver.ch/tips-tricks/tips-tricks.html )
In total we drilled several holes in the first siphon to fix the line loops and we spent more than 75 hours of diving time. We are in good spirits and hope to have found a solution for the "line problem" of the Emergence de Gouron. During the action we resurveyed the cave and will present an updated cave plan in 3D.
In this sense,
Your Cavebase
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