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Italy

Sardinia

May 2008

Roland & Robin

 

Due to the currently unfavorable weather conditions in France, the proposed project moved Gourneyras and instead simply a smaller Sardinientrip clarification regarding the planned future projects in the late summer or autumn, and the necessary logistics organized.

Our starting point was the basis of Protec Sardinia Toddy and Patrick protecsardinia Cala Gonone in the eastern part of the island. Just south of Cala Gonone found approximately 50 km stretch of coast massive limestone deposits and numerous over the sea and reach inland cave systems are only partially understood.

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I can not swim :-)

After a relaxing night on the ferry, we finally 6:30 to Olbia and then go on to Cala Gonone Protecbasis where we warmly by Toddy expected.


First Look at Sardinia


Sunrise over the islandl


The ferry terminal in Olbia


Geiler outlook on Cala Gonone


The Pro Tec Base...


... with an adjacent hotel


Toddy, as always, good mood :-)


We decide it is comfortable and acceptable to take the morning of our arrival the first of the Grotta del Fico a visit. We were each armed with a D12 with EAN 32 and each of the 80 cf Stage 32nd EAN This is a rather restrictive initial part with a beautiful cave about 100 m long x 15 m wide Cavernbereich in the remainder of the heavily branched and it is up to the end of the line 8 jumps, various restrictions and approximately 1200 m are penetration period. The decorations with stalagmite and stalactite cornices compartments in the rear part are simply insane. Sometimes it must also be something for the eye. Since it was relatively close, we are well-behaved geflösselt. Here we had crystal clear water, visibility was only slightly affected by Halocline. While we in the morning to the front part of the cave and 3 jumps behind us had, and about 500 m penetration achieved, we are again in the afternoon with D12 and 80 cf EAN 32 after 6 jumps at about 900 m penetration arrived.


Bruno at the helm, directed his Toddy Equipment


Robin, with a good pair of sunglasses gerüsstet


beautiful island


nice walls


Fill in the evening was on the program. Rear you can still see Bruno

In the evening we enjoyed a delicious multi-course dinner in a typical Italian restaurant, and left the port the first day with an exquisite wine bar and talked with Toddy and Bruno on the planning for the dive in the Utopia and the Bel Torente. Since Roland is not yet in Sardinia and it was the Bel Torente yet knew Toddy and necessarily before our planned attack on the end of the line felt he needed the 5000 Roland-year-old monk seal skeletons in a restrictive way side show (and was really close )


Is not that wonderful?


Bel Torente


again

On the way back to the base figure of Cala Luna, we have a little visit from here and put even a few hundred meters back stretch and appeared on 2 T. just ignore this and continue the many Jumpmöglichkeiten right and left of the Main Line and orient ourselves to the Main Line.

 

Since we are the first two days Toddy than absolute Top Full Caveinstructor it had, we have it we can not take in some dives in exercises and tasks leash with. Where you have the option (except in Mexico) such a complex cave system with countless passages to betauchen and navigating to practice!


Dry cave system for tourists :-)

For the next day, we had a Pushdive in the Bel Torente planned. The previous end of the line is located at approximately 1200 m and Toddy deeming the continuation of their long, even hall-like corridor Profiles (15 x 30 m) after 2 T at around 1200 m.

Here we wanted to start and the rest of this corridor and explore new leash embarrassed and cave in their further course push.




At the loading port


2x RB80 ready geriggt, 4x Magnum Scooter


The two RB's are already in the boat. The guys from Protec have huge support here.

The TG, we introduced each of the RB 80 and D20 Bailouttanks, 4 Magnumscootern, each a 80 cf 50/25 for the flatter top section as well as a 80 cf EAN 32 m for the 25-30 area. We agreed for the case that the other profile of the cave, well below the 30 m mark falls, we are more than 10 min the Trimix (15/65) of the package back into the switch block of the plug Rebreathers would otherwise would have been after a new TG additional Trimixstage provided to this depth range.


Roland is already finished with the attract


...
and in the water

We scooterten with the eingestöpselten 50/25 expeditiously to our previous day left and jump scooterten a loop to bypass the restriction and jumpten again to the Main Line and scooterten in the vast, hall-like corridor profile magnificently decorated rooms on the 2 T and, finally, reached shortly before SUMP a depth of around 6m in the end of the line, we left the scooters back here on a leash back cleanten the passage of old wire and rope remnants and finally the Explorationsreel connected to the end line and began to lay new line.

The course profile was deeper and was always in dimensions more widely, in part, we were able to the other wall or ceiling and does not illuminate when the visibility of> 30-40 m!. Here it simply had to go! At 20 m depth stöpselten we EAN 32 in the switch block and followed the course in the course of increasing depth. At 33 m depth and sloping profile Roland and I communicated briefly and stöpselten the Trimix 15/65 from the 20 double back in the packet switch block and finally reached a maximum depth of 46 m in Minute105 of the dive.

After this short bend at 46 m increased the profile of the cave steeply again, resulted in a long passage with a wall-wall distance of about 50-60 m. We moved the line right on the wall and lit so well it went the whole area and held in the columns in the wall on the lookout for other side aisles. In between stöpselten we are only returning to the EAN 32 and then at increasingly lower depths the 50/25 back in the Rebreather. Finally, we reached a new SUMP and the course was unfortunately too late, without a continuation betauchbare view. That was hard to believe!

Up to this point, we moved quite exactly 250 m new leash. We dived into a huge stalactites of wonderfully decorated hall and briefly discussed how to proceed. We could not really grasp that the big gear so "banal" ends. We fastened the rope end to a rock in the water and turned around, that was about 170 min in the dive.

On the way back we are distributed in the hallway, Roland left on the wall, right, and I searched the aisle systematically from continuations. About 50 meters before reaching the Sumps where the cave profile again to a level of 15 m increases, there was still a large parallel course of approximately 100 m and over ausgeleint was a newly created T with the newly installed line has been connected, it goes here , this is the continuation? We will see. The Auftauchstelle was ausgeleint T and another at the Main Line and we were placed comfortably on the back and scooterten back.

On the way back we are distributed in the hallway, Roland left on the wall, right, and I searched the aisle systematically from continuations. About 50 meters before reaching the Sumps where the cave profile again to a level of 15 m increases, there was still a large parallel course of approximately 100 m and over ausgeleint was a newly created T with the newly installed line verbundeAm 2 T (from now 4 T's), we still threw a glance in the so-called "Boneroom" and still looked a quick look at a well-preserved even around 5000 years old skull of a monk seal scooterten and finally out of the cave. There is already so comfortable without Deco slowly in the sea auszutauchen. We were about 4.5 hours on Rebreather unterwegs.n was, it is here, this is the continuation? We will see. The Auftauchstelle was ausgeleint T and another at the Main Line and we were placed comfortably on the back and scooterten back.

Nice is here: dive time = time base

Here we will surely start again, and 2 further options of the cave continued closer look take.


Filling Equipment and preparation for the next day.

For the next day, we had an approximately 4,000 m in the TG with the Utopia Rebreather planned. This is a very large part of early cave (40 x 50 m!) Whose shaft-like entrance at a depth of 15m, and thereafter in the form of a huge hall in its dimensions and comes up on the first kilometers for about an average depth of about 40 m has before the profile is increasing again and eventually in larger - important to Trimix - Deep continues.

We have prepared in the early evening in our Rebreather Protecbasis for the next day before and checked again everything necessary equipment and packed it for the next day very carefully, as all equipment on the boat so to be stowed.

We then discussed extensively about the upcoming dive in terms of logistics, Dekorigg for decoration in the sea as well as the timing, planning for the estimated TG, a Dekostrategie and many other things you must remember is, like what are we doing with the rig when the weather turns, etc. (Free Floating deco) and then after a good Italian dinner (Roland: Pasta, Robin: steak) time in bed.

Toddy and Bruno (employees of Toddy) prepared the next morning in the port Dekorigg for the 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Deko m in the sea that will later by Bruno at a depth of 15 m on a rock before the cave entrance was tied.


RB's and the 6 scooter is ready. The two buoys you see here are from Dekorigg


we took almost the entire harbor in :-)


The heaviest equipment is already on the boat, 2x RB80, 6x Magnum Scooter

We drove off while in port. Cala Gonone is about 45 min to Utopia.

The 80 Stages cf O2 and some bags were drinking at the rig by Bruno removed, the remaining gases in 80 CFT stages (35/35, 50/25, 15/65) we had with us and placed a 21 m gas on a leash within the cave. We also led every 3 Magnum Gavin (Aluheck) or 2 Magum Gavin and 1 Suex ADV 42 for the dives with us and planning for the Scooter periodically during the dive durchzutauschen and approximately 30% of the nominal per Burntime Scooter for the penetration to be used so that at the end of the dive in about 30% of everybody Burntime Scooter reserve.


The Dekorigg is already installed

2 Scooter outages are so on point with Maximalpentration of our board Scooter logistics problem. After the warm breath of the scrubber and the obligatory RB and Equipment Check scooterten us in the sea to the cave entrance, and finally plunged into the giant system. We scooterten than with the 35/35 "Travelgas" for the first kilometer and agreed then, if necessary, the interim change to the board Trimixstage. The line runs in the first 600-700 m in the main at about 38-45 m deep, barely ausleuchtbare, visible soil is partly to 60-65 m! We had excellent conditions with good visibility 40-50 m in clear water and ever-changing sections Halocline what the buoyancy of the scooter a bit tricky design


We quickly scooterten km around the first 5-10 m above the line at an average depth of 30 m and moved 3 times briefly on the Trimixstage because the profile several times in the 50 m region and drops, finally reached the flatter part of the first kilometer in the called Seehalle.

Suddenly Roland gives me a Attentionsignal with his 18 W HID closes quickly and the right valve, since it is fairly heavily on Inflator abbläst.

It was hard to believe that the admission of the button Edelstahlinflators was Inflate at the Wings from the housing of Inflators herausgeflogen. Since the thread of the Inflators, where the inlet knob is screwed, was ripped out.

I do not know how often and violently, we in the Cooper Hoses of RB to the company with the blue H geschimpft, but there was no sense in the Wing of Roland was irrevocably failed.

Meanwhile, Torsten Case is easily adopted and further regulates the manufacturing company.
After Roland Inflatorschlauch of the Inflatoranschluss had the right valve and re-open shot, we had (super super disappointed) to. With the advance of the scooters and plenty of argon in Trocki could manage but the buoyancy. Dumm was only through the Tarrierung in the argon Trocki relatively quickly was empty
We were also grateful for something that is not the Inflator 1-1.5 hours later at 80-90 m depth but at reinscootern adopted!

So went a promising TG with a little effort but much too quickly to an end.

To be continued! We will come back ;-)

It would be the perfect organization on the ground and support of Toddy and his entire team.


One last glance out the window (at home) in the direction of Cala Gonone


well OK, one time even watching :-)


Our ferry is waiting

Robin & Roland