Voronya 2009 PART01

In the period from October 23 to November 18, 2009, Robert Erhard and Darko Bakšić, members of the Velebit Speleological Section, the Speleological Committee of Croatian Mountaineering Association and the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, took part in an expedition into Voronya, the deepest known cave in the world (-2,191 m).

The expedition was organized by an international speleological CaveX team led by Denis Provalov and Oleg Klimchouk. The goal of the expedition was to enlarge one side passage at a depth of -1,980 m in order to bypass the Kvitochka siphon, which would allow easier transport of diving and other equipment to the Dva Kapitana siphon. Exploration will continue in the course of 2010.

A fifteen-member team from Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Croatia set up a base camp, lowered several hundreds kilograms of equipment to the depth of -1,980 m and continued with enlarging the mentioned passage. A summer expedition had already worked for 8 days to widen the passage while work at this expedition lasted for 6 days. There are still 2 to 3 days of work left before the whole passage is widened and uninterrupted transport of equipment is made possible. Work is planned to continue at the end of January or August 2010, which depends on weather conditions and financial means.

During the expedition Robert Erhardt and Darko Bakšić made a lot of photographic and film material, passed the 2,000 m mark and descended into the Game Over chamber, situated at -2,080 m.

More on: http://www.speleologija.hr/voronya/voronya.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Voronya
• Speleological expedition
• speleology

[Majsimir]

Predavanje je bilo preodlicno O.O

[MrIncitatus]

@Zheige

ALAI OLI - Jahmani

[magnetohidrodinamika]

Scurion headlamps...

[MultiTedson]

@Zheige i dont know

[Zheige]

@MultiTedson okay thanks..now..what song played at 4:11 - 5:25?

[MultiTedson]

@Zheige manu chao me gustas tu

[Zheige]

please someone answer.. what song played at 1:20 is ??

[Zheige]

what the song title at 1:20 - xx:xx ?

[therebis]

@mickey08love They use multiple ropes. Each vertical ptich varies in height. "Blind Descent" gives a good account of Krubera cave system and how Alexander Klimchouk and his Ukranian team explored it to a -1640m depth in 2004. Thousands of feet of static and dynamic rope are used.

[mickey08love]

i dont get it how can they have long enough ropes for a 2000 depth cave??